The new grandoise complex of Telangana Chief Minister’s official residence comprising of camp office, residence and a conference hall is getting the finishing touches and K Chandrashekhar Rao is all set to move into the new building after performing special rituals.
Three identical buildings with 1,00,000 square feet space were built at Begumpet at a cost of Rs50 crore as he is not satisfied with the present camp office and residence used by his predecessors including late YS Rajasekhar Reddy.
The new complex with the sprawling and imposing structures is equipped with all the necessary state-of-the-art facilities. The conference hall has the capacity to seat 500 people enabling the Chief Minister to conduct meetings with officials without venturing out.
His camp office has another smaller conference room with seating capacity for 50 people. The two-floor camp office also has chambers for the secretaries and staff of the Chief Minister’s Secretariat.
As per the cources, 90 per cent of the work is over and the remaining work will be completed by the end of the month.
The entire complex built by the famous Shapoorjee Pallinjee company has come up on nine acres. While the three buildings have come up on one acre the remaining was used for other facilities, mainly parking and landscaping. At least 300 cars can be parked at one time.
Initially the project cost was estimated to be Rs33 crore but later it was revised to Rs50 crore.
The massive security arrangements include a kilometre peripheral wall with CCTV cameras all around the complex.
The official residence of the Chief Minister was getting ready at a time when his other plan of demolishing existing Secretariat buildings and replace with a new single tower has come under attack from the oppositions parties. High Court has stayed the demolition till further orders.