Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao directed that the Hyderabad Metro rail project works be completed as early as possible.
KCR who held a meeting with L&T Metro Chairman S N Subrahmanyan and other officials here, said the state government is ready to extend all cooperation to the firm in the execution of the project.
It may be noted that majority of the main roads have been dug up for the metro causing great inconvenience to the commuters in city.
He favoured early completion of works as the Metro rail project would resolve traffic woes in Hyderabad to some extent.
It was decided at the meeting that the Miyapur-LB Nagar main section of the project be completed by November, 2017 and that the remaining work wrapped up by August, 2018.
The Hyderabad Metro Rail project is the world’s largest Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the metro sector.
The metro network would cover a distance of around 72 kms across three corridors in the city.
Overall, 67 per cent of the total work was completed till September 30, 2016, L&T Metro said in October.
The project, being built at a cost of Rs 16,375 crore, was initially scheduled to be completed by July, 2017.It has been passing several dead lines.
They said it will not be from Assembly and Sultan baazar, but now are following the earlier proposal and the route.
