In a bid to equip the municipality with all the required community-based facilities on par with metropolitan cities like Hyderabad, the Officials of newly formed Badangpet Municipal Corporation – that formed in the year 2014 under Maheshwaram constituency, has grounded five projects during the last one year.
The five projects include a proposed New Municipality Building, Praja Bhavan, Park-cum-Nursery, a Park around the landmark ‘Badangpet Burj’ – which is also a symbol of the Municipality and the Zilla Grandhalaya Head Office building. All these five structures are standing a stone throw away distance from each other. Out of these five projects two have been completed while the remaining three are in different states of construction.
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Out of the five components of development, the Park-cum-Nursery named as “Dawood Khan Guda Park-cum-Nursery” in Ward No. 23 is unique in its appearance as it carries a different varieties of rare species of succulents and cactus besides stone carving art using raw stones unearthed while tilling the surface that may attracts the visitors in myriad once it was thrown open for the public.
“The Park-cum-Nursery is also having a variety of vegetable and fruit plants that include lady finger, egg plant, guava, citrus lemon besides a fully grown lawn with walkway. “Spreads on nearly two acres of area, the park-cum-nursery has nearly 3.5 lakhs saplings raised with a cost of around Rs.1.20 crores in a period of seven months. Similarly it carries almost all varieties of succulents and cactus and some of them are rarely available, informed Krishna Mohan Reddy, Commissioner Badangpet Municipal Corporation.
Moreover, he said, a new municipal building is also coming up a few meters away with a plinth area of 10,000 Sq.feets on an allotted land of one acre. “So far we have spent around Rs.3.5 crores but it will take additional six months to get into a complete shape. Opposite to an under construction municipal building, there exists an under construction building earmarked for Praja Bhavan. This structure is also coming up over 5000 Sq.feets of area with a estimated cost of Rs.1.6 crores,” he explained
Promotion of Badangpet Burj into a captivating green expanse is also another eye-catching theme being shaped under the supervision of Commissioner Krishna Mohan Reddy. “It was just a Burj atop the rear side of the municipal building until a few months ago. However, we decided to turn it into a pleasant park with a walkway to help local people visit and unwind for a few hours in the green expanse. Besides, the ground plus two floors of Zilla Grandhalaya building is also getting into shape with an outlay of Rs.2 crores. The structure along with the municipal building and Praja Bhawan will be completed in next few months,” the commissioner informed.