A team of State Ministers including Deputy Chief Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali, Home Minister N Narasimha Reddy and the Information Technology Minister K Taraka Rama Rao along with officials undertook 8-km-long trial journey from Mettuguda to Nagole on Friday and expressed their satisfaction with Hyderabad Metro Rail project on Friday.
The trial run was a smooth affair with the ministers, officials and the media persons enjoying the maiden ride. l&T Metro Rail Hyderabad managing
director VN Gadgil and the Hyderabad Metro managing director NVS Reddy also accompanied the Minister.
“The Metro Project will go a long way in developing Hyderabad into a global city”, said Taraka Rama Rao. “Today’s trial run was an amazing and incredible journey”, he said.
Taraka Rama Rao said that the goal of the Metro project was to provide a secure and fast mode of transport to the people. The State Government has so far spent `3000 crore and was trying to speed up the works by removing all the hurdles including the acquisition of lands and properties in the city.
Commercial taxes Minister T Srinivas Yadav, who was also part of the team said that once fully operational the Hyderabad Metro project will change the face of Hyderabad city completely. “It will considerably reduce the travel time, ease congestion on the roads and also reduce the levels of pollution in the city”, he told the reporters.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was trying to dedicate the Metro project to the people at the earliest.
Nagole-Mettuguda section was part of the Nagole-Shliparamam Corridor I, which will pass through Secunderabd, Begumpet, and Jubilee Hills. Nagole-Mettuguda phase was originally scheduled to be thrown open to the public in March this year but it was put off after the l&T Metro officials apprehended that this will not be financially viable and decided to wait till the entire section up to Secunderabad was ready.
l&T Metro ltd officials said that the work had reached an advanced stage on a section of Kukatpally-Dilsukhnagar Corridor II. Metro Project was being built on three busy corridors of the city at a cost of `14000 crore.