Telangana Govt to construct new secretariat buildings

Hyderabad: Construction works for the new secretariat, District Collectorates, housing for legislators, and residential quarters for senior officials would be taken up on a grand scale in the State for the new financial year.

State government has earmarked Rs 600 crore in 2017-18 budget proposals presented in the Assembly on Monday for the construction of collectorates in 28 old and new districts. The plans for the construction of integrated district administrative offices have already been finalised. All the government offices would be set up under a single roof in the new collectoratett for speedy governance.

Government also cleared the proposal to construct new buildings in the existing Secretariat by allocating Rs 50 crore. Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is planning to construct new secretariat by demolishing all existing structures. TS government has already held talks with Andhra Pradesh counterpart and asked them to hand over the secretariat buildings which are under their possession, since they have shifted their capital to Amravati.

Similarly Rs 122 crore has been earmarked to construct residential quarters for senior (IAS and IPS) officers. Another Rs 40 crore for construction of buildings in Raj Bhavan and Rs 30 crore for the construction of multi storied buildings at old and new MLA quarters.

State Roads and Buildings officials said that construction of buildings for the State government guest house in Hyderabad would be taken up at Rs 25 crore, improvement of guest houses and hostel at Rs 30 crore, State Election Commission at Rs one crore, Director of Works and Accounts at Rs 4 crore, Inspection bungalows, Rs 60 crore, Telangana Kalabharathi building at Rs 50 crore and Telangana journalists building at the cost of Rs 10 crore would be taken up in the new financial year.