Minister KTR opens multilevel Kothaguda flyover

HYDERABAD: Continuing the precedent set last year, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K.T. Rama Rao inaugurated Kothaguda multi-level flyover on January 1, 2023. On the first day of the previous year, 2022, KTR inaugurated Shaikpet Flyover. The Kothaguda Flyover solves traffic woes at Botanical Gardens and Kothaguda junctions. It links Financial District and HITEC City with neighborhood Miyapur and other locations. It is the second longest flyover to be built under Strategic Road Development Plan (SRDP), which includes 2.21 km of main flyover and two ramps of 784 meters length. Also, a 470 meter long three-lane underpass at Kothaguda Junction is part of the project.

Addressing people, the Minister said that Kothaguda Flyover was the 34th project to be completed under the SRDP, and 11 more would be completed in 2023. The Minister also said that the Strategic Nala Development Programme (SNDP), taken up in Hyderabad and eight municipalities around it, was scheduled to be completed by April.

He said that the pace at which infrastructure projects were built in Hyderabad was not witnessed in any other city in India. KTR said that this was achieved because of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s vision and guidance. The Minister said that infrastructure was being expanded according to growing needs of Hyderabad as lakhs of people from other districts and States make the city their home every year because of education, employment and other opportunities available here. The Minister said that 31 Sewerage Treatment Plants (STP) were being constructed and by May, Hyderabad will become the first city in India to be treating 100 percent of its sewerage.

Education Minister P. Sabitha Indra Reddy, MP Dr G Ranjith Reddy, MLA Arekapudi Gandhi, MLC Surabhi Vani Devi, GHMC Mayor Gadwal Vijaya Laxmi, Deputy Mayor Mothe Srilatha Shoban Reddy, GHMC Commissioner D.S. Lokesh Kumar and others were present at the inauguration.

The Minister inaugurated the Kothaguda Flyover along with M Devanand, Chief Engineer, GHMC’s Project Wing and Sunkara Venkata Ramana, Superintendent Engineer, Projects Wing (West Zone). Later, Ravinder, Town Planning Supervisor, and Ganapathi, Deputy City Planner, were felicitated for their work towards the project.