In Chennai metro, just 70000 commuters are travelling while in Hyderabad 3 lakh commuters are travelling said K Taraka Rama Rao the Minister for IT and industries. When compared to Hyderabad all other meteors have taken a long time. We have done the works at a better speed when compared to others.
KTR said that people are just reading news items and making allegations.
It is well connected and affordable to the common said KTR. He was answering to the questions posed by Congress leaders Bhatti Vikramarka and also Sreedhar Babu. KTR explained that hundreds of cases were filed against the land acquisition for the Metro.
We have done the project under PPP model. The Congress Government approved the metro KTR reminded. It was estimated at Rs 14000 crore earlier he said. Some work has to be done in the old city and it will be done KTR assured.
The private people invest and they have to make profits and that is through tickets. Women have special coaches, special seats for the disabled are there. The Congress leaders must travel in the metro he suggested. We got a number of awards for the Metro he said. Metro has got 80 awards he stated.
The Gunpark in front of Assembly has been protected from the metro alignment he said. The right of way at Sultan Bazar has been reduced from 100 to 65 feet he said.
The Osmania medical college and Koti women’s college have been protected from the demolition he explained.
