KTR opens Indira Park-VST steel bridge, says last 9 years just a trailer by BRS Govt

HYDERABAD: Telangana Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Minister KT Rama Rao (KTR) inaugurated the steel bridge at Indira Park on Saturday which has been named after former Minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy. The 2.63 km-long four lane bridge from VST to Indira Park is the longest in South India and has been build at a cost Rs 450 crore.

Speaking at the inaugural function of the steel bridge, KTR said, "In central Hyderabad, we build the tallest statue of Dr BR Ambedkar, the new Secretariat building, Telangana Martyrs' Memorial and now this steel bridge. We will also now beautify Indira Park soon."

The bridge marks the 36th project in the Strategic Road Development Programme (SRDP). Steel for its construction was brought from Ukraine. The bridge has a total of 81 steel pillars and 46 pile foundations. The bridge is expected to alleviate traffic snarls at VST Junction, RTC X Roads and Indira Park.

The family of Telangana's first Home Minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy expressed gratitude to the Government for naming the project after him. Revealing the reason, KTR said, "He was a labour union leader in VST industries. He first won as a Musheerabad MLA in 1978. MLA Muta Gopal also suggested his name and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) immediately agreed to name the bridge after him."

KTR also expressed a commitment to take up further development programmes in Hyderabad, to elevate the city's development at an international level after coming to power in the next term.

"KCR will become a hat-trick Chief Minister. Development in Hyderabad in the past nine years was just a trailer (by the BRS). The real movie is in the future...not the one in a theatre on RTC X Roads, a movie which the opposition will be awestruck to see once the development agenda is unveiled," he said.