Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao said on Tuesday that Hyderabad was the economic engine for the entire country, not just Telangana. “I feel sad when the union government shows discrimination. To make India a five or ten or 15 trillion economy, the Centre should support cities like Hyderabad and progressive States like Telangana,” he said after inaugurating the ‘Lake Development Programme’.
Rolling out major plans for the State capital, he stated that Hyderabad should have at least 250 km of Metro Rail in and around the city. In addition to Hyderabad Pharma City, link roads worth Rs 2,400 crore were planned. The other proposals include the Outer Ring Road Road (ORR) – West to East Project that will have a 55 km expressway along Musi proposed with Rs 10,000 crore.
The Minister said that Hyderabad needed a world-class film city and the land was already identified in Rachakonda. This would be in addition to the existing Ramoji Film City. “We need a sports city on par with Olympic standards and an academic city too,” the Minister said, adding that Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao can only dream big, such as the world’s largest lift irrigation scheme, India’s largest drinking water supply scheme etc.
He also mentioned that no other city in the country had the growth potential of Hyderabad, and he recalled Foxconn Chairman Young Liu’s words praising the city’s infrastructure.
Speaking about the city’s future, the Minister stated that the city’s recent growth was only a trailer and that the city would further grow exponentially.
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As for the governance model in Telangana, he pointed out that despite the Gachibowli ward being headed by a BJP corporator, the highest funds in the Serilingampally constituency were granted to that ward, but the union government gave illogical reasons when the state sought its assistance for the development of the second phase of the Metro Rail from Lakdikapul to BHEL (26 km) and Nagole to L B Nagar (5 km).
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