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Hyderabad: Asian Development Bank (ADB) is all set to finance the Hyderabad Metro as well as many infrastructure projects going on in the city. The ADD team has already started going around the city and is meeting officials to take things ahead. ADB has started preparing grounds for taking things ahead. Their officials are holding meetings to take the funding proposal ahead. A team of ADB has already visited the city. The team of ADB has also met SK Joshi, Chief Secretary as well as principal secretary, MAUD, Arvind Kumar. During the meeting the officials discussed on how financial assistance can be extended to fund various infrastructure projects in Hyderabad including Hyderabad Metro. ADB gave a list of projects their bank was willing to fund. These include the second phase of Hyderabad Metro Rail , the Strategic Road Development Programme to construct new flyovers, Musi beautification and multi-grade separators. The finding has been made possible as earlier GHMC Mayor Bonthu has s...

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd. (HMRL) made its first phase of 71-km elevated metro rail project to open in November. Started in July 2012, the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) project was scheduled to be completed by June this year. However, it got delayed due to land acquisition and other... Click here to see more https://goo.gl/vpGhyh

Hyderabad: The Telangana Government has decided to speed-up the Hyderabad Metro Rail project works and the services will become operational from January 3rd 2018 onwards. The project will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The first phase metro will be between Nagole and Begumpet with Miyapur – SR Nagar and Nagole – Mettuguda routes likely to be operational. Both the routes have been ready for more than a year ago and 58 metro rails are already brought to Hyderabad. The Hyderabad Metro Rail project should have been completed by July 4, 2017 but due to the constant delays from the Telangana Government over handing the necessary land and the route alignment issues, the project deadline has been pushed. Source: The Hans India

Hyderabad: The State Government has permitted the HMRL to complete the entire Hyderabad Metro Rail Project, other than the 5 km stretch in the Old City and 1 km stretch between Hitec city and Raidurg, latest by November 2018. The original deadline for construction was ended on Tuesday.  Some delays were caused in completion of the project due to multiple court cases in acquisition of some properties at critical points. So, Government has agreed for extension of deadline by 17 months, according to Managing Director HMRL, NVS Reddy. Further, Chief Secretary, S.P.Singh reviewed the progress of the project and noticed that that some properties to be acquired are not coming in the way of the Metro Project. He gave instructions to both the Collectors of Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts and Commissioner, GHMC to complete acquisition of the remaining properties for widening of roads in Sultan Bazar and Nampally. The State Government advised HMRL to gear up for launching the completed st...