Master plan to promote Hyerabad as global city on the cards
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has announced his government will formulate a comprehensive master plan to promote Hyderabad as a global city. The constitution of a separate executive body consisting of experts drawn from various fields like sewerage, drinking water, powerlines, traffic and environment to implement the master plan was proposed. The CM announced that foundation will be laid this month to the proposed reservoir to be constructed at Keshavapur for supply of drinking water to the Hyderabad city.
The same will be completed expeditiously and the works for Metro rail to be extended up to the airport will also be taken up soon. The Chief Minister held a review meeting at Pragati Bhavan on Saturday on Hyderabad city within and beyond ORR as well as within the Regional Ring Roads (RRR) for its comprehensive development and to prepare it in accordance with the future needs. He said that the master plan would be drafted by the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) in consultation with a team of National and International experts keeping in view the future needs of the city.
If any changes to the master plan, thus prepared, by ASCI taking into consideration all aspects of Hyderabad development, shall be done only with the consent of the cabinet. Changes if any required shall be reported to the Chief Secretary who in turn bring to the notice of the cabinet for final approval.KCR wanted the master plan to be prepared by assessing scientifically the present status of the infrastructure and its improvement to meet the needs in the next 10 years. The city should be divided into three parts and accordingly proper planning has to be done.
The city within ORR, the city beyond ORR and within the proposed regional ring roads and city development beyond RRR are the three parts. In all these three parts, assessments has to be made with regards to drinking water, drainage, sewerage, traffic, transport and powerlines. He asserted the need to identify areas with specific reference education city, sports city, cinema city and health city each one treating as special entities.
Permissions are to be given accordingly. The area is to be utilised for the purpose for which it is meant. “Under any circumstances, master plan cannot be violated. An Act will be passed that any change to master plan shall be done with the consent of the cabinet” said the CM. The migration will be more to cities like Hyderabad where there are several facilities. The only alternative before the government is to prepare the city for future needs and for the growing population, KCR said for taking up this massive programme, the required funds will be allocated and released by the government.