Tag: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation

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GHMC committee rages over road maintenance works

GHMC committee rages over road maintenance works

The Standing Committee of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on August 22 expressed its dissatisfaction over the road maintenance works in Hyderabad city and non-implementation of various resolutions by the engineering staff concerned. The Committee members took objection to the functioning style of engineers and said the resolutions of the committee and general body were not being implemented.

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Hyderabad needs all-weather roads: Experts

Hyderabad needs all-weather roads: Experts

Fed up with the travel on Hyderabad roads, experts have suggested the government to call in global experts and build one or two model roads in the city and follow such method of constructing long-lasting roads. As the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is not following a professional approach for road building and maintenance, and thats why most of the city roads are now in a bad shape, experts like S Nagabhushan Rao, adviser to the World Bank-aided Road Safety Project in Andhra Prad

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Rs 200 cr spent for road works in Hyderabad

Rs 200 cr spent for road works in Hyderabad

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is spending Rs 200 crore on re-carpeting the city's roads with layers of bitumen year after year and not following road engineering rules. As a result, the rains of the past few days have washed away the bitumen on several stretches of the main road corridors in the city. Thousands of potholes have turned into dangerous craters. Vehicle speed on Sardar Patel Road, where a young college girl died recently because of the bad condition of the road, has co

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Sarai structure may be razed in Hyd for road widening

Sarai structure may be razed in Hyd for road widening

To decongest the Charminar-Chandrayangutta road in Hyderabad, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has set its eyes on the Aliabad ‘Sarai,’ a listed grade I structure. There are about 80 shops functioning from this rundown ‘Sarai’ belonging to the Masjide Almas and Dargah Hazrat Miskeen Shah Saheb.

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Mosque panel to negotiate on road widening in Hyd

Mosque panel to negotiate on road widening in Hyd

As the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is firm on widening the road Road No 2, Banjara Hills in the city, the Green Mosque (Masjid-e-Hussaini) committee has finally decided to negotiate with the GHMC. Masjid-e-Hussaini muthawali Syed Shah Yusuf Hussaini had written a letter to the GHMC commissioner on June 18 requesting that the notice inviting their objection to the taking over of the land be kept in abeyance for two to three weeks as the matter (to part with the land for road wi

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Kukatpally road in Hyd to be widened to 200 ft

Kukatpally road in Hyd to be widened to 200 ft

For the first time, a Hyderabad city road Erragadda-JNTU, Kukatpally stretch is being widened to 200 feet (60 metres) by the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). If the road is expanded to 200 ft as per the master plan, it may become the widest road in city.

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Hyd’s Srinagar Colony road declared a commercial one

Hyd’s Srinagar Colony road declared a commercial one

In Hyderabad, Srinagar Colony main road has been declared a commercial road, paving the way for property owners to either construct or exploit their existing buildings for commercial use. Henceforth, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will allow shopping complexes, hotels, hospitals, retail shopping activities, service establishments, function halls and petro filling stations on the road.

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Hyd’s Srinagar Colony road declared a commercial one

Hyd’s Srinagar Colony road declared a commercial one

In Hyderabad, Srinagar Colony main road has been declared a commercial road, paving the way for property owners to either construct or exploit their existing buildings for commercial use. Henceforth, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will allow shopping complexes, hotels, hospitals, retail shopping activities, service establishments, function halls and petro filling stations on the road.

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Hyd civic body takes up Rs 75 cr worth road works

Hyd civic body takes up Rs 75 cr worth road works

In 2013, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will be taking up three Road Under Bridges (RUBs) and one Road Over Bridge (RoB) crossing over the railway tracks in different parts of the city. The projects costing about Rs 75 crore are already in different stages of progress. The RUB at the revised site of Uttamnagar instead of Safilguda will be constructed at a cost of Rs30 crore.

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RamkyÂ’s waste-to-energy project

RamkyÂ’s waste-to-energy project

Ramky Enviro Engineers would set up a 40 MW power plant in at the Jawaharnagar dump yard in Kapra area of Hyderabad using the 3,100 tonne of municipal solid waste generated each day in the city. Recently, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) secured approval for the project, which would be executed under public, private partnership mode.