SOURCE :- SIASAT NEWS
Hyderabad: Amid controversies surrounding Radial Road 2 tenders floated by Hyderabad Growth Corridor Limited (HGCL), the Telangana government entrusted the southern part of Regional Ring Road (RRR) to HGCL as well, Telangana Today reported.
Congress MLA K Rajgopal Reddy had alleged that his family’s company had been discouraged from bidding for the Radial Road tender. The final allocation of the tenders had costed the state exchequer a loss of Rs 600 crore, a different construction company had alleged.
HGCL was entrusted with RRR’s Southern part since the organisation is involved in land acquisition for Future City, a senior official from Roads and Buildings department was quoted as saying by Telangana Today.
Land acquisition for the southern part had triggered protests from farmers alleging that the alignment had been changed to spare the lands of influential people while those belonging to the small and marginal farmers were being targeted.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is yet to approve the southern part alignment.
The proposed 201-km six-lane expressway will run from Thangdapalli in Choutuppal to Sangareddy. It passes through several habitations in Sangareddy, Rangareddy, Nagarkurnool, Yadadri Bhongir, Vikarabad, Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda.
Over 2000 hectares of land will be acquired for the project, according to estimates.
SOURCE : SIASAT
