perhaps GHMC would take this opportunity to do some cleanup and better utilize the available road space ...

according to the original plan of the flyover, two arms of the flyover (up and down) were supposed to run on either side of the MRTS, which would have taken up more than half of the road width, making it necessary to go in for road widening. Road widening seems to be almost impossible on the stretch at present...

The congestion is mainly due to narrow width of the road between gaddiannaram X roads ( FOB) and the chaithanyapuri X roads (pushpa gardens). Thanks to the religious structures and illegal buildings. Once the MRTS works begins, the establishments on this stretch might be demolished.

and from there on there wont be any need for demolition as the highway has a width enough to be expanded to 10-lanes.

They might revisit this project after one or two years - or as and when the area community leaders ask for it
Yeah, they will, only after the things turn from bad to worst. :lol:
This is the motto of our Govt bodies.

http://www.deccan.com/Business/Business.asp?#No%20housing%20bubble%20in%20offing

Tishman Speyer had joined hands on a 50:50 JV with ICICI Venture to form TSI Venture and their first project, WaveRock — a 12-acre, 2.2 million square feet class A office property at Gachibowli in Hyderabad — broke ground on Monday. "I think it’s very important to recognise two factors: real estate goes in waves of slumps and booms and no two situations are ever the same," said Kok Huat Goh, CEO, TSI Ventures when asked whether India was going to have a property bubble burst akin to 1995 when prices slumped by 70 per cent.

http://www.tsiventures.com/properties/index.htm

... http://www.tsiventures.com/properties/index.htm




Their signature building looks sweet!

Cyberabad Times
Tishman Speyer to build WaveRock
TSI Ventures India Pvt Ltd... has announced 2.2 million sq. ft. office property at Nanakramguda in Hyderabad. Besides offering the green-friendly attributes, the WaveRock building would have 1.32 million sq. ft of parking on four plinth levels at a ratio of one space for every 700 sft.

The 18-storeyed property, named WaveRock, would look like a wave of glass, true to the name of the edifice...

TSI Speyer has built some of the world's most talked about buildings such as Rockfeller Centre (New York), Sony Centre (Berlin) and MesseTurm (Frankfurt)...Source: The Hindu
cool looking building... Tishman Speyer ICICI Joint Venture's first project, WaveRock — a 12-acre, 2.2 million sft at Gachibowli in Hyderabad. Thanks for the link, mk.
http://i19.tinypic.com/6afpjdj.jpg

^^

That's one cool building!

:cheers:

From there website.........

TSI Ventures is proud to present a world class office facility at Hyderabad. Located in Gachibowli, next to the Financial District, it will provide 2.2 million sq.ft. of class A office space in a Special Economic Zone being promoted by the APIIC(Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation ).

With a unique signature building designed by World renowned architect Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, TSI Ventures Business Park in Hyderabad is poised to set a precedent in India’s commercial real estate landscape.


TSI Projects
Excellent Location & Address
The site is well connected, with easy access to the expressway that is linked to the Outer Ring Road. The neighborhood home to Microsoft, Franklin Templeton, UBS, Computer Associates, Infosys , Wipro and ISB.
Best in Indian Commercial Real Estate
With distinctive architecture, environment friendly world class offices and luxury lifestyle amenities, TSI Ventures will establish new standards in commercial real estate with their new Hyderabad facility.
SEZ Approved
Tenants will enjoy Special Economic Zone Benefits. The site is part of an SEZ promoted by APIIC (Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation).


TSI Projects
The Green Office
Designed as per the standards of the US Green Building Council, it aims to qualify for LEED accreditation with a Gold rating. Key environment friendly features would be:

* Building management systems that ensure high standards of energy efficiency
* Use of local materials and resources that are low in terms of embodied energy.
* Systems that minimize the impact of construction on natural resources.

Features and Specifications

* Efficient floor plates with efficiency ratios as high as 90%.
* Double Glass curtain walls that ensure abundant natural light in offices.
* Sophisticated automated building management systems.
* Central elevator cores with wait times of 30 seconds.
* Multi Level, covered parking.

Cyberabad Times

cool looking building... Tishman Speyer ICICI Joint Venture's first project, WaveRock — a 12-acre, 2.2 million sft at Gachibowli in Hyderabad. Thanks for the link, mk.
http://i19.tinypic.com/6afpjdj.jpg

^^ What's that big hole ?
space for helipads?:lol:

and I guess mushroom kind of things on the top are meant for water storage, just like our residential apartments.:lol:

Source: Times of India
Greater Hyd to be a ‘fine’ city

Hyderabad: Greater Hyderabad will turn out to be a ‘fine’ city soon. From August 1 the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will impose a penalty of Rs 50 on those who litter roads and nalas.

The corporation has been imposing a fine on people for urinating in public places since Feb. 2007 and also for dumping bulk garbage by hotels and function halls in September 2006.

As many as 3,000 cases have been booked and about Rs 5 lakh has been collected from people for urinating in public places, in the last five months. About 2,000 cases have been booked against hotels and function halls and Rs 20 lakh has been collected in the last 10 months.

“From August 1 a fine would be imposed for littering, as people are throwing garbage on the roads instead of bins. This not only spoils our efforts to keep the city clean but also adds to the spread of diseases,” GHMC additional commissioner (health and sanitation) R Rammohan Rao told ‘TOI’ on Monday.

The GHMC will also impose a fine on residents and shop owners who throw garbage into open nalas. “Door to door garbage collection scheme was introduced in 2005 to many colony associations, yet people throw garbage into the open nalas, resulting in blockage of drains,” Rao said.

A fine of Rs 50 would be collected for urination in public places and Rs 200 to Rs 15,000 from hotels and functional halls for dumping garbage.

^^ every thing looks good on paper. But, how strong are they in implementing them?

^^ The first ticket goes to p.raghavendra6 for being overly pessimistic. Pay up. :D

If GHMC can impose fines, we are no less, says the Traffic police department.
These days they are conducting a special drive to fine vehicle owners sporting improper and fancy number plates.

In the areas where manual challan is difficult, offenders are being captured on video and the challans mailed to their residential addresses.

http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/2140/platepe4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

How much fine can be imposed on this fellow?

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3511/getimageys5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

^^ Well his vehicle should be seized for a month!!!

that waverock building is one unique project and will be a landmark in Hyderabad!

^^ Well his vehicle should be seized for a month!!!

Any amount of punishment is not going to deter an Hyderabadi.He will continue to violate traffic rules.Hyderabad had and has always been a city with traffic indiscipline come what may the traffic density.

waverock rocks.

How much fine can be imposed on this fellow?

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3511/getimageys5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Thats not his fault, where is the traffic cop to control the traffic.

Recently dividers which have been layed on the Himayatnagar-liberty road have helped to streamline the traffic, and at couple of places road is not divided to ensure people can take u turn. Those places should be strictly regulated.

Thats not his fault, where is the traffic cop to control the traffic.
Recently dividers which have been layed on the Himayatnagar-liberty road have helped to streamline the traffic, and at couple of places road is not divided to ensure people can take u turn. Those places should be strictly regulated.

What happened to his Common sense. Dont he know he is causing a traffic jam.

That is a problem in hyd no one has common sense in driving
Everyone gets a licsence easy and no one is tested in rules and regulations!!!there lies the problem and the root cause of traffic chaos like in the picture above

That is a problem in hyd no one has common sense in driving
Everyone gets a licsence easy and no one is tested in rules and regulations!!!there lies the problem and the root cause of traffic chaos like in the picture above


i hate to agree with you but it is true....there is absolutely no common sense and logic in hyderabadis while they are driving.

That is a problem in hyd no one has common sense in driving
Everyone gets a licsence easy and no one is tested in rules and regulations!!!there lies the problem and the root cause of traffic chaos like in the picture above


Things have turned bad to worst on this strech. Himayatnagar - Liberty Road widening has been in progress since 5 years and its still not completed. I suppose 80% of the road widening is complete and people are having a tough time becoz of the 20% of the properties which are yet to be acquired.....

Properties yet to be acquired ---

Few shops and house of an advocate near Narayanguda Flyover,

Properties near masjid(owner puts a board saying he got a stay),

Himayatnagar - Old MLA Y junction ...though they demolished the existing shops before 5 years i suppose they are having a tough time demolishing a mechanic store and a few vegitable vendors.....

Open land next to Pick n move building.

OLD Woodland and Indian Bank Building

Properties from Satya Kidney center till Kodak photo studio near universal bakers (some of them objected to demolishing claiming it to be wakf board property)

A property next to Tata motors show room with a muslim religious tree infront of it.....

The Building next to Balaji temple (Corals) which is forward by almost 15 feet.

This road's width is uneven and they put up this 3 feet high divider all along the road ......pedestrians, motorists and LMV drivers are having a tough time because of it. Where is the width to take a U turn anywhere on this road?

Thr purpose of acquiring 80% of the properties really does'nt serve unless they acquire rest of the 20%.

Cyberabad Times
Expect a slowdown
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), India's largest exporter of software, and Infosys Technologies Ltd may report the smallest profit growth in more than a year after the rupee gained the most in three decades.

Infosys probably will say fiscal first-quarter net income rose 23%, the slowest since the three months ended March 2006, based on the median estimate of nine analysts Bloomberg surveyed. TCS may report a 25% gain the survey showed.

The rupee may advance another 0.5% against the dollar this year, after a 6.8% gain in the quarter eroded the value of earnings from the US, the companies' biggest market. Profit at TCS and Infosys was also damped by higher wages. Indian technology stocks dropped 5.2% this year. "Some amount of rupee appreciation was expected, but the extent of the appreciation was a surprise," said Jayesh Gandhi, who helps manage about $5.9 billion (Rs23,836 crore), including shares of Infosys and TCS, at Birla Sun Life Asset Management Co. Ltd in Mumbai. "That will impact the profit margins for some of the software companies."

The rupee may advance 0.5% to 40.20 against the dollar by the end of this year, according to the median forecast of 21 strategists surveyed by Bloomberg. Fourth-ranked Satyam Computer Services Ltd, based in Hyderabad, may post the smallest profit gain of 12% to Rs396 crore, according to the median estimate of 11 analysts. Sales likely climbed 26% to Rs1,810 crore.

India may have the highest salary gains among Asian countries this year, averaging 14.5%, as companies such as IBM Corp. and Barclays Plc. increase hiring, human resources consultant Hewitt Associates Inc. had said in March. Every one percentage point appreciation in the rupee may have trimmed profit margins by as much as 0.5 point, Infosys chief financial officer V. Balakrishnan and Wipro corporate treasurer Rajesh Ramaiah had said in separate interviews in June... Source: Live Mint

Rumors...

HUDA is preparing to sell some of the lands thru public auction to raise funds for the ORR project.
HUDA owns some 2000 acres at Jawaharnagar and another 500 acres at Kokapet...

GHMC might proceed with BRTS corridor-1 from Mehdipatnam to Uppal via Fever Hospital, Ramnthapur, Amberpet
GHMC might call for tenders for the BRTS corridor-1 soon...

Thats not his fault, where is the traffic cop to control the traffic.

Recently dividers which have been layed on the Himayatnagar-liberty road have helped to streamline the traffic, and at couple of places road is not divided to ensure people can take u turn. Those places should be strictly regulated.
Streamline???? in fact it has become hopeless to drive on this stretch after the road dividers have been erected.Despite some widening the road is still narrow.

Can anyone tell me what's up with ORR of Phase 1.

slow progress , from all thats being reported orr-1 is no where near completion by 2008, most of the stretches work has not even commenced.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=316993&page=22

URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/12/stories/2007071258620300.htm
HUDA gifts parks to L.B. Nagar
HYDERABAD: They really make a difference to their surroundings. Pleasing landscape, lawns, play area for children, pathways for walkers and the much needed lung space.

Members of the Vanasthalipuram residents welfare association in LB Nagar can’t wait for the August 25 inauguration of the Rajiv Park being developed by HUDA at Phase III, NGOs’ Colony. “This five-acre park is a boon to people of 30 colonies here. We never imagined a beautiful park would come up here. We thank the HUDA Chairman and officials,” said beaming senior citizens Veeraiah and Ramkoti Reddy.

Even the Saroornagar park in 4.5 acres adjoining the Saroorngar lake restored four years ago under the lake conservation programme is getting ready for inauguration by July-end.

Progress reviewed: HUDA Chairman D.Sudheer Reddy, Vice-Chairman Jayesh Ranjan, accompanied by Chief Engineer Vivek Deshmukh, BPPA Special Officer N.Chandramohan Reddy inspected the parks and reviewed their progress on Wednesday. As all the major parks were located in the city, HUDA had directed the commissioners of erstwhile municipalities to identify vacant lands for developing them into parks. Some parks were already developed in Rajendranagar Municipality and others were being developed in Kukatpally, Qutbullapur, Uppal and other areas.

Once neglected open areas in municipal areas were being transformed into parks, giving residents good recreation space. Eventually such parks may be handed over to GHMC for maintenance, Mr.Sudheer Reddy said. Indira sports complex in Vanasthalipuram will be inaugurated soon while a Rs.6-crore Indoor Stadium with a swimming pool was sanctioned, he said.

The Saroornagar park developed along the Saroornagar lake with water spread of 99 acres at a cost of Rs.1.5 crore has interesting sculptures, ornamental landscape, boating facility and environment education centre...

These are not rumours. HUDA has been issuing statements about auctioning at Jawaharnagar for past three years at regular intervals. They are no takers for its low-cost apartment scheme there.

They should hand-over real estate to private entities and should concentrate on urban planning like allocating public empty spaces, parks and schools.


Rumors...

HUDA is preparing to sell some of the lands thru public auction to raise funds for the ORR project.
HUDA owns some 2000 acres at Jawaharnagar and another 500 acres at Kokapet...

These are not rumours. HUDA has been issuing statements about auctioning the same for past two years at regular intervals. They are no takers for its low-cost apartment scheme at Jawaharnagar.

They should hand-over real estate to private entities and should concentrate on urban planning like allocating public empty spaces, parks and schools.

I thought there was a huge demand for low cost apartments and HUDA was not able to meet the demand...

Are there any private entities building low cost apartments ...

slow progress , from all thats being reported orr-1 is no where near completion by 2008, most of the stretches work has not even commenced.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=316993&page=22

You r right.I went round hyderabad only yesterday along the proposed ORR and i find work has not commenced at most of the places even in the first phase.What is happening is inexplicable despite tall claims by the local Govt.

You r right.I went round hyderabad only yesterday along the proposed ORR and i find work has not commenced at most of the places even in the first phase.What is happening is inexplicable despite tall claims by the local Govt.

I guess they need funds to get going for the project or maybe some private companies should rope in.

URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/13/stories/2007071358860300.htm
Secunderabad bus terminus project work to begin in September
HYDERABAD: After what seemed a long lay off, the state-of-the-art multi-level bus terminus cum commercial hub proposed at old Gandhi Hospital land in Secunderabad is inching towards finalisation stage and work may start in September.

The project initially estimated at Rs. 230 crore, now revised to Rs.475 crore, in 11-acre land was planned by HUDA to ease congestion near Secunderabad Railway station by avoiding the conflicts created by the movement of RTC buses, bus commuters, train passengers, shoppers in the area and students... after inviting the Expression of Interest and short-listing the companies, HUDA, faced with a barrage of queries and details from short listed firms realised the need to re-examine the earlier design report in view of some inadequate provisions.

“When an Engineering procurement contract is given, every design, specification, requirement has to be spelt out. There were details like type of elevation for the proposed twin towers, building management system to take care of all amenities and data networking system, capacity of sub-station, provision of an STP, provision for software companies, common area, escalators that had to be included. Then we engaged the services of Bangalore-based Stup consultants experienced in executing such projects for preparing a Request for Proposal (RFP) with engineering estimates”, said the HUDA Chief Engineer Vivek Deshmukh. The firm which revised the estimates would submit the RFP document along with building plan to HUDA by July 20, he said. HUDA meanwhile would submit the revised estimate to the Government for the administrative sanction Almost doubled the estimates. looks like serious business... :)
Just a recap:
URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/08/18/stories/2006081823180300.htm
HUDA invites bids for Secunderabad bus terminus
HYDERABAD: The proposal to build a bus terminus-cum-business centre on the old Gandhi Hospital land to ease traffic congestion around Secunderabad railway station area has moved to the next step, five months after officials from various agencies conducted a joint inspection. The State Government has appointed Hyderabad Urban Development Authority as the executing agency for the Rs.250-crore project... The authorities are planning to build a super structure with 28.5 lakh sft of carpet area, including 90,000 sft for covered parking area to accommodate at least 1,200 cars and 14,000 two-wheelers...
URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/01/stories/2006040117770300.htm
A bus terminus-cum-business centre planned in the area
HYDERABAD: The old Gandhi hospital land where a bus terminus-cum-business centre to ease congestion near Secunderabad railway station has been planned was inspected by authorities from various civic agencies on Friday. Coming up on 11 acres of land with 65 bus terminals, the Rs. 230-crore project would be either funded by HUDA or taken up in public-private partnership mode...

The bus terminus-cum-business centre with over eight lakh sft multi-level parking facility, twin towers, each with 28 storeys was designed to handle 30 lakh passengers and would accommodate 1,200 cars and 9,000 two-wheelers. A flyover from Boiguda to Clock Tower would ease traffic congestion on the routes heading to and from Railway Station... the project with many components would be integrated with the railway facilities including two MRTS lines from Secunderabad Jubilee Bus Station to Falaknuma and Tarnaka to Hi-tech city and seven RTC bus stands in the vicinity of railway station. Subways from the railway station platform would connect to the complex enabling passengers board the shuttle services...

URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/13/stories/2007071353470700.htm
A.P. plan for bullet trains
HYDERABAD: Bullet trains are being planned in Andhra Pradesh. If everything goes well with an ambitious project on the cards of the State Government, the work for introducing India’s first bullet train between Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam via Vijayawada, will be grounded next year.
Travelling at a speed of 200 kmph, the hi-tech train will take just two hours to cover the 275-km distance between Vijayawada and Hyderabad which at present takes five hours. The service is proposed to be extended up to Chennai at a later stage.

Two other routes have been selected for the project to connect Hyderabad with Mumbai and Bangalore. An elevated track for a length of 3,000 km will be built for the three “high speed corridors” for the bullet trains. A massive sum of Rs. 2 lakh crore will be spent on the project. “Nothing is impossible these days when private-public partnership is available,” Transport Minister K. Lakshminarayana said here on Thursday after Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy held detailed discussions with officials on the project.

The Minister told reporters that Dr. Reddy was so keen to ground the project next year that he had sought detailed project report within 10 days. He had already spoken to the top brass of the Railway Board three times on the proposal and taken the line that “either you build it or we will do it on our own.”
The Chief Minister planned to make a presentation on the high-speed train to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his visit to the State on July 31.
Aim for the stars! :)

I do welcome this Project :ohno: . But at this point of time first they need to focus on changing the National and Sate highways that are passing through the state from 2- lane to 4-lane :bash: . Changing the Hyderabad and Vijaywada National Highway to 4-Lane has been going for last 6 Years or may be more than that. I appreciate the government, if they put efforts to complete the 4-Lane Hyderabad and Vijaywada National Highway first, on which thousands of people are losing their life :bash: .

URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/13/stories/2007071353470700.htm

Aim for the stars! :)

Darwin brother!:cheers:

URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/13/stories/2007071358860300.htm

Almost doubled the estimates. looks like serious business... :)

Just a recap:
URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/08/18/stories/2006081823180300.htm


URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/01/stories/2006040117770300.htm

WTF! They didn't start working on this yet!?
:bleep:

I do welcome this Project :ohno: . But at this point of time first they need to focus on changing the National and Sate highways that are passing through the state from 2- lane to 4-lane :bash: . Changing the Hyderabad and Vijaywada National Highway to 4-Lane has been going for last 6 Years or may be more than that. I appreciate the government, if they put efforts to complete the 4-Lane Hyderabad and Vijaywada National Highway first, on which thousands of people are losing their life :bash: .

You are right bro...

Hyderabad and Vijaywada National Highway to 4-Lane has been going for last 6 Years or may be more than that.

No work going on on this HW currently.
Moreover stretch between Choutuppal and Nandigam (non four-laned) has been completely filled with potholes making it worst than a R&B road. :bash:

I travelled on this road two days ago.

It’s time to pull the brakes

Traffic Police To Track Down Speedsters With Laser Guns

Hyderabad: Things are going to be tough for speedsters in the city. For the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) and the traffic police will track them down with the newly acquired speed laser guns.

In a bid to make the speedsters pull the brakes, government has doled out Rs 2.66 crore to get 38 speed laser guns. Transport minister Kanna Lakshminarayana formally handed over the speed guns to the two departments on Thursday.

The gun measures the speed of a vehicle from a distance of 1.5 km, and can capture a vehicle’s image with registration number up to a distance of 250 metres, with its zoom provision up to 500 metres.Each speed gun costs around Rs 7 lakh.

While each of the 23 districts in the state has been given one unit each, the remaining 15 guns have been sent to the office of the Director General of Police. The DGP would later distribute the gadgets as per its efficacy and necessity. The minister said that if needed, more speed guns might be procured. Breaking the speed limit with feisty driving will invite a fine of Rs 1,000 or land you in prison for six months.

Traffic police, armed with the speed laser guns, will hit the road next week. The speed limit for vehicles has been set in accordance with provisions specified in the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Two-wheelers would have to stick to 50 kilometres per hour (kmph) and all transport vehicles, including buses and taxi vehicles should maintain the speed by 55 kmph in the city limits. The CMV, however, has no provisions for cars.

“We will issue a notification in a week’s time detailing speed limits for cars. On National Highways, the limit will be 80 kmph, on state highways 60 kmph and on roads in district and rural areas, the limit will be 30 kmph,” said joint transport commissioner B Venkateswarulu. After the state High Court shot down attempts to implement speed governors in the city, authorities consider speed guns, fines and convictions as a second chance in their efforts to curb speed.

The traffic police on Thursday held a meeting with autorickshaw owners. Additional commissioner of police (traffic) V S K Kaumudi told auto owners to properly brief their drivers while giving the vehicles on rent apart from providing them with all documents.

He said an orientation programme would be conducted for auto drivers in the second week of August. “We will ensure that their licence applications are processed immediately with the help of RTA. A major medical screening camp for the auto drivers is also being planned,” he said.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/1172/getimagecc8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Cool gadgets and Cool plans :)

It’s time to pull the brakes

Traffic Police To Track Down Speedsters With Laser Guns

Hyderabad: Things are going to be tough for speedsters in the city. For the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) and the traffic police will track them down with the newly acquired speed laser guns.

Traffic police, armed with the speed laser guns, will hit the road next week.The speed limit for vehicles has been set in accordance with provisions specified in the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Two-wheelers would have to stick to 50 kilometres per hour (kmph) and all transport vehicles, including buses and taxi vehicles should maintain the speed by 55 kmph in the city limits. The CMV, however, has no provisions for cars.


Why so? :bash:

Darwin brother!:cheers:

Futile dreams of YSR.This man seems to jump from one fantastic project after another.In the last three years not one project announced have taken any shape.When the national and state highways are in such bad condition why he announces projects like Hyderabad- machilipatnam rail corridor and immediately afterwards Bullet train which is estimated to cost Rs200,000/- crores.Luxury amidst rampant poverty.:ohno:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/13/images/2007071359600401.jpg

Traffic goes crawling on key stretch in city

Staff Reporter


Monappa Island-Rasoolpura road turns into perennial problem spot for vehicle users

— PHOTO: P.V. Sivakumar

Recurring woes: Motorists caught unawares in a massive traffic jam on the Begumpet flyover on Thursday evening.

HYDERABAD: Traffic movement was disrupted for a couple of hours on Monappa Island-Rasoolpura stretch causing inconvenience to the people going to Begumpet airport, Secunderabad railway station and Jubilee Bus Stand here on Thursday.

Thousands of commuters got caught in the traffic jam and were forced to cancel their appointments. While people blamed inefficient handling of the traffic flow for the chaos, the traffic police said they were helpless since the stretch had some narrow points due to ongoing construction of the flyovers.

Vehicle movement started slowing down on the stretch around 4 p.m. From Monappa Island to Greenlands junction, the road is nearly 70 feet wide, while the road from Green Park Hotel end is 30 feet wide.

Ripple effect

“Vehicles coming on these two roads had to pass through a narrow passage of 30 feet before going up the flyover leading to Begumpet. Naturally, vehicle movement was hit,” Punjagutta Traffic ACP T. Ram Sudhakar said. Ripple effect threw traffic flow out of gear beyond Monappa Island resulting in a jam.

It took nearly two hours to restore normal traffic movement. The ACP said the problem on this route was lack of alternative routes. A person going from Punjagutta to airport had to take this route and could not be diverted to another road once he crossed Monappa Island. Mr. Ram Sudhakar said the traffic police were trying their level best to streamline vehicle movement but opined that it would be better if people took alternative routes like Necklace Road to reach Secunderabad till completion of the flyover construction work.

It’s time to pull the brakes

Traffic Police To Track Down Speedsters With Laser Guns

Hyderabad: Things are going to be tough for speedsters in the city. For the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) and the traffic police will track them down with the newly acquired speed laser guns.

In a bid to make the speedsters pull the brakes, government has doled out Rs 2.66 crore to get 38 speed laser guns. Transport minister Kanna Lakshminarayana formally handed over the speed guns to the two departments on Thursday.

The gun measures the speed of a vehicle from a distance of 1.5 km, and can capture a vehicle’s image with registration number up to a distance of 250 metres, with its zoom provision up to 500 metres.Each speed gun costs around Rs 7 lakh.

While each of the 23 districts in the state has been given one unit each, the remaining 15 guns have been sent to the office of the Director General of Police. The DGP would later distribute the gadgets as per its efficacy and necessity. The minister said that if needed, more speed guns might be procured. Breaking the speed limit with feisty driving will invite a fine of Rs 1,000 or land you in prison for six months.

Traffic police, armed with the speed laser guns, will hit the road next week. The speed limit for vehicles has been set in accordance with provisions specified in the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Two-wheelers would have to stick to 50 kilometres per hour (kmph) and all transport vehicles, including buses and taxi vehicles should maintain the speed by 55 kmph in the city limits. The CMV, however, has no provisions for cars.

“We will issue a notification in a week’s time detailing speed limits for cars. On National Highways, the limit will be 80 kmph, on state highways 60 kmph and on roads in district and rural areas, the limit will be 30 kmph,” said joint transport commissioner B Venkateswarulu. After the state High Court shot down attempts to implement speed governors in the city, authorities consider speed guns, fines and convictions as a second chance in their efforts to curb speed.

The traffic police on Thursday held a meeting with autorickshaw owners. Additional commissioner of police (traffic) V S K Kaumudi told auto owners to properly brief their drivers while giving the vehicles on rent apart from providing them with all documents.

He said an orientation programme would be conducted for auto drivers in the second week of August. “We will ensure that their licence applications are processed immediately with the help of RTA. A major medical screening camp for the auto drivers is also being planned,” he said.

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Cool gadgets and Cool plans :)

What's so cool about throwing people in jail for 6 MONTHS (more appropriate for DUI) for minor speed violations??? And why are they obsesing over speed instead of the real problems, i.e. bad lane discipline, tailgating, bad road design, drunk driving, etc (speed can be ignored if a minimum distance rule of 1m for every 2km/h of your speed is implemented, strict enforcement and fines for right-lane hogging and failing to yield for faster traffic). Thankfully, there's no speed limit provision for cars (but sadly not for motorbikes carrying no passengers), so there's hope for derestricted zones on the ORR tho. But 60km/h on state highways as a blanket rule is going to become a problem when they get upgraded to expressways.

Pass legislation guaranteeing expressway derestriction (does not apply to trucks) on roads with exit spacings of 5km or more, IMO

IMO, setting speed limts based on their banaging authority instead of their construction standards is a bit misstep, since it can cause roads to be oversigned and undersigned. For example, 30km/h is fine for a dirt road or a small neighborhood alley, but what if a district-managed road is a divided 6-lane surface road (case in point: some major arterials in Hyderabad are technically district roads)? Should they still be signeda t 30km/h, or should they be signed at 60-70km/h (in accordance with their design speeds)? And conversely, what if a National Highway (80km/h suggested by the RTA) happens to be a rutted 1-lane road?

Refer to the speed limit thread in Chaibar (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=477806) for a detailed discussion of the issue.

What's so cool about throwing people in jail for 6 MONTHS (more appropriate for DUI) for minor speed violations??? And why are they obsesing over speed instead of the real problems, i.e. bad lane discipline, tailgating, bad road design, drunk driving, etc (speed can be ignored if a minimum distance rule of 1m for every 2km/h of your speed is implemented, strict enforcement and fines for right-lane hogging and failing to yield for faster traffic).

Only punishments of this magnitude can bring a change in our road users. Till then we never follow the rules.

all it will do is make ppl blindly follow rules (whether or not they make sense), not to mention the fact that theyll cause revolts due to disproportionate punishment.

What next, executions for DUI?

Hyderabad Traffic Police is comming up with more innovative ideas to impose challans I suppose they should be equally innovative to resolve the traffic jams.

Traffic Police have a gud way of handling issues when it comes to people :-

Speeding veichles - 1000 RS fine...

Drunken Driving - Challan or imprisonment
Driving without licence or documents - Challan
Helmet / seatbelt less driving - Challan
Veichles carrying excess number of people - Challan
Heavy veichles moving in city limits during peak time - Just a Challan


Is Traffic police imposing challans and punishments for GOVT officials responsible for following-


Road Cutting Activity without proper sign boards
Contractors laying roads with improper material
Workers responsible for leaving the manholes open
Workers responsible for maintaining the street lights properly.
Workers responsible for making sure that a road does'nt have sand, stones and oil ( 2 wheelers skid on such surfaces)
Workers responsible for making sure that there is no water logging.

Bullet trains between Hyderabad and other cities @200kmph. Trains to be running by next year to Vizag. http://andhracafe.com/index.php?m=show&id=25074
Very ambitious

URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/14/stories/2007071453000400.htm
Genomics centre in Hyderabad soon
HYDERABAD: A translational research centre in genomics, cell-tissue engineering and nanobiology, proposed by the Union Government at Hyderabad as a world-class institution, has been allotted 75 acres of land at Karkapatla near the city in Medak district.

The requisition was made originally for 150 acres but it was scaled down to 75 acres after a fresh assessment of the requirement. Several other states competed with Andhra Pradesh to get this institution, but the final choice fell on Hyderabad following strenuous efforts made by the present director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Lalji Singh. The State Cabinet, at its meeting here on Friday, decided to offer this land free of cost, considering the importance such an institution enjoys.

Information Minister A. Ramanarayan Reddy told reporters that the Centre had earmarked Rs 300 crores for the institution in the 11th Plan as against its estimated total outlay of Rs 1,000 crores, while the Planning Commission cleared the project. The institution would help in accurate and early diagnosis of ailments and offer treatment with stem cells and gene therapy.
URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/14/stories/2007071457840300.htm
Karkapatla CCMB facility to focus on local medical concerns
SANGAREDDY: The Institute of Translational Research facility to be set up by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology under phase three of Biotech Park in Karkapatla will address local medical concerns like Fluorosis...

The Rs 1,000 crore ,75-acre world-class facility would also consist of a dedicated medical school and hospital. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has entrusted the CCMB to set up the institute over a period of five years and the initial outlay in the Eleventh Plan would be Rs 300 crore...

Accurate diagnosis: The Translational Research Centre and the modern medical school are aimed at helping physicians to design tests for early accurate diagnosis and better treatment including stem cell and gene therapy.

The CCMB research facilit at Karkapatla would also look into personalized treatment basing on individual genotype.

Futile dreams of YSR.This man seems to jump from one fantastic project after another.In the last three years not one project announced have taken any shape.When the national and state highways are in such bad condition why he announces projects like Hyderabad- machilipatnam rail corridor and immediately afterwards Bullet train which is estimated to cost Rs200,000/- crores.Luxury amidst rampant poverty.:ohno:
Could you list some of them (projects) that did not take any shape (except thos we already discussed)...
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The much talked about Fab city project is going at a snail's pace.In the so called happening place called Kandukar on the Srisailam highway the following projects were announced.
1) Rajiv Nano-tech park
2)Mutcherla IT park
3)Videocon electronic hardware park
4)Hardware products park
5)Jewellery park SEZ

I find nothing seriously happening in the aforesaid projects announced a couple of years back.
Nothing is heard about the joint Malaysian township-A.P Housing Board project announced at this very place.

Whereas in sriperumudur near chennai many telecom, automobile projects are taking shape just in a year of the DMK govt coming to power.IT sofware investments are pouring there.A big ticket investment of Mahindra-Renault-Nissan car manufacturing project( more than usd 1 billion investment) has been clinched with a quick MOU and ground breaking ceremony.The construction has already started so is the Dell computer mfg co and Samsung electronics all in sriperumudur. Why there is no such pace of development in our place?
perhaps you are right.
compared to areas like HITEC City, dev activity in Kandukur is slow.
compared to Chennai, and TN, industrial and economic growth is less in Hyd and AP.
but... some of these projects are delayed by different reasons (beyond the control of GoAP or the ppl of AP)

Fab city project : delayed by GoI policy anouncements (W-I-P)
1) Rajiv Nano-tech park: delayed by GoI policy anouncements (W-I-P)
2)Mutcherla IT park: private SEZ - only developers could comment (about 20km away from HIAL, situated near Kandukur on Srisailam state highway, this project has helped as a selling point for several realtors to sell their plots at high rates for the past 2 years! - some of my friends bought plots around there - but disappointed at a the slow pace of development of the neighbourhood. so Mutcherla became famous, even before they started building)
3)Videocon electronic hardware park: private SEZ - (works will commence soon)
4)Hardware products park: W-I-P (some of the units will start functioning by mid 2008)
5)Jewellery park SEZ : W-I-P (most of the units will start functioning by late 2008)
the joint Malaysian township-A.P Housing Board project: delayed by private invstors.

we should also keep in mind that the world economic activity is lil bit slow at present, compared to the last 2-3 years (reduction in investments and demand for real estate)... raise in bank interest rates all over the world (raising cost of money) is an indication of changes in the world economy... some of the MNCs are also planning to cut down on out-sourcing works... many IT firms are recruiting in US and other western countries.... more and more developing countries (esp South American countries, of late) are competing for the MNC projects.
so, the road is getting a little bit rough. but, we'll get there!
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National Highways are managed by NHAI.
AP State Highways are comparable to any other South Indian State Highways in terms of maintenance...
Why should it stop GoAP from asking for new rail corridors or High Speed Trains ....
How is this diff from TN asking for a High Speed Train btn Chennai and B'lore ...
Or, how is it diff from any other state asking for High Speed Trains ...

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/07/14/stories/2007071450550300.htm

Hyderabad, July 13 Maytas Properties, which has three notified IT SEZs and a host of realty projects under its belt, has set an ambitious target to develop 35-40 million sq ft area across the country in the next 3-5 years. In the three IT Special Economic Zones, around Hyderabad itself, Maytas will have 16 million sq ft area. It is starting ‘mixed-use’ (residential-cum-commercial) projects in Chennai and Nagpur, where it has own land. In addition, it would take up ‘third party’ projects in Bangalore and Coimbatore this year, according to Mr K. Thiagarajan, Chief Executive Officer.




The company floated in January 2005 is among the fastest growing in the property development and commercial infrastructure segments. In Hyderabad, the company will soon launch a high-rise residential complex in Gopanapalle, close to the hitech city, over 35 acre area.
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With an investment of over Rs 1,000 crore so far in various projects, Maytas will start delivery of its luxury villas in its prestigious project ‘Maytas Hill County’, an integrated township coming up over 85 acres in Hyderabad over the next nine months.

Could you list some of them (projects) that did not take any shape (except thos we already discussed)...
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National Highways are managed by NHAI.
AP State Highways are comparable to any other South Indian State Highways in terms of maintenance...
Why should it stop GoAP from asking for new rail corridors or High Speed Trains ....
How is this diff from TN asking for a High Speed Train btn Chennai and B'lore ...
Or, how is it diff from any other state asking for High Speed Trains ...


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As you said "National Highways are managed by NHAI". This new Railway Corridors will be maintained by Railways. Our National Highways are in worst shape. So it is better for the government to focus on the roads. As our Government can convey the Central / Railways for a 2 Lakh Crore project, can’t they convey the Central / NHAI for a 200 cr Project?.

Whatever Ranga says also can’t be ignored completely.

Before announcing the projects they are not seeing the financial strength of the corresponding companies.
Example: Nizampatnam Port (10,000 crores), Science City (1 Lakh crore) , Semi India (As now they were limited to 100 acres, At least they will set up a small unit), Electronic City , Mutcherla IT Park etc...

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Our National Highways are in worst shape.

:fiddle:

Could you list some of them (projects) that did not take any shape (except thos we already discussed)...
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Why should it stop GoAP from asking for new rail corridors or High Speed ...

For outer Ring Road and other Project they ate selling all the Governament Properties in and around Hyderabad. For this project, I don’t know what the State Government needs to sell to give it’s share.

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...Our National Highways are in worst shape.
to me, it sounds like a very inacurate statement.
NHAI has been improving the National Highways in a phased manner for the last several years...
So it is better for the government to focus on the roads. As our Government can convey the Central / Railways for a 2 Lakh Crore project, can’t they convey the Central / NHAI for a 200 cr Project?.
so, what about all those who can't afford a car... why not improve rail...
why can't the GoAP also ask for new rail corridors and High Speed Trains ...
Before announcing the projects they are not seeing the financial strength of the corresponding companies.
Example: Nizampatnam Port (10,000 crores), Science City (1 Lakh crore) , Semi India (As now they were limited to 100 acres, At least they will set up a small unit), Electronic City , Mutcherla IT Park etc
The govt has a lot of other things to do too.
How deep can anyone check on a private company/investor...
If the private company wants to mislead the govt, there are 1000 ways to do so
Then again, this is a learning process for the govt too - and they are improving
And they are doing a fairly good job under the circumstances...

Perhaps I didn't quite understand your point.
if the govt has taken up 10 projects, completed 7 but could not complete 3 (in the stepulated period) -
then the govt should not take up any new projects until they complete those 3 from the first 10 ...
is that what you are saying ...

to me, it sounds like a very inacurate statement.
NHAI has been improving the National Highways in a phased manner for the last several years...


Roads are not only for rich people who can efford a car. At this point of time i feel investing 2 cr laks on Railway carridors is not worth. We will see what PM says on it.

For outer Ring Road and other Project they ate selling all the Governament Properties in and around Hyderabad. For this project, I don’t know what the State Government needs to sell to give it’s share.

ok. ideally speaking, don't sell govt lands, don't increase taxes, don't take too many world bank loans - then how do you pay for the land aquisitions, construction etc - any suggestions...

so, what about all those who can't afford a car...

In one of your posts, You mentioned as if good roads are not so useful for common public as they don't have a car.

I don't see it in that way. On top of that I am worrying about the poor people (I feel 80%) who can't efford 2 crore projects and don't get any benifits from it. I am damn sure that Bullett Trains are not effordable to poor people

ok. ideally speaking, don't sell govt lands, don't increase taxes, don't take too many world bank loans - then how do you pay for the land aquisitions, construction etc - any suggestions...

There is no doubt, Inftastrture is needed. But here the main thing is the Project Cost. If it was a 5000 crore Project, No one would have a made a comment on it. Babaji, Do you have any idea how much would cost for a person to travel from Hyd to Vij in the Bullett Train? (from any other sources)

From a commercial point of view bullet trains between hyd and vizag makes sense because of the huge volume of passengers traveling between these 2 cities.
I am guessing the cost of traveling will be somewhere between that of an air ticket and a 2-tier train ticket.

Could you list some of them (projects) that did not take any shape (except thos we already discussed)...
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National Highways are managed by NHAI.
AP State Highways are comparable to any other South Indian State Highways in terms of maintenance...
Why should it stop GoAP from asking for new rail corridors or High Speed Trains ....
How is this diff from TN asking for a High Speed Train btn Chennai and B'lore ...
Or, how is it diff from any other state asking for High Speed Trains ...

Bullet trains are luxury not only for A.P but for the entire country.When we struggle to put some few kilometers metro line in a metro city incurring huge capital expenditure and long years for completion is it practical to think of bullet trains running on elevated tracks for more than few hundred kilometers entailing very huge amount of expenditure and God only knows how long for completion.Even acquiring land for constructing elevated tracks for hundreds of kilometers will be very very difficult.It is practical and viable to put a high speed cargo rail corridor between mumbai and Delhi covering the industrial west and north of india adjoining NCR immediately. Next will be between chennai and Bangalore covering the industrial areas in that Zone.The distance between chennai and Bangalore is 350 Km and takes a journey time of 6 to 6.5 hrs by train and 5 to 6 hrs by road.There are 6 daily trains between these two cities mostly crowded and encountering difficulties for getting reservation on most of the days.Yet bullet train between these two cities is not viable.

From a commercial point of view bullet trains between hyd and vizag makes sense because of the huge volume of passengers traveling between these 2 cities.
I am guessing the cost of traveling will be somewhere between that of an air ticket and a 2-tier train ticket.

Total cost for laying exclusive tracks and rolling stocks and other supporting equipments will be around USD50 billions just for a distance of 500km (HYD to VZG)It costs about USD100 million for a KM.Over that running expenses will be around 1%( of the capital expenditure) per annum.With this expenditure being expended for this project what will be the cost of a ticket?80% of the crowd are poor, lower middle class and middle class who will avoid bullet trains if the cost of tickets are priced high.For just 20% crowd this project is absolutely unviable.Wonder how the Economist PM is going to react to this proposal from our dear CM.!!

I think faster train dosn't mean luxury train. Faster train decreases the time of travel, in turn increasing the number of services . You can observe that even there are lots of trains for coastal districts, you find it difficult to get a ticket in emergency. I think its time for upgrading the rails in a phased manner.

...Next will be between chennai and Bangalore covering the industrial areas in that Zone.The distance between chennai and Bangalore is 350 Km and takes a journey time of 6 to 6.5 hrs by train and 5 to 6 hrs by road.There are 6 daily trains between these two cities mostly crowded and encountering difficulties for getting reservation on most of the days.Yet bullet train between these two cities is not viable.
Have you ever travelled btn hyd -vij-vizag route by train in recent times...
Please talk to those who did... you will know how tough/crowded/over booked/hellish it is ...
Bus journey is not an option if you have to travel with kids and elderly ...

... 80% of the crowd are poor, lower middle class and middle class who will avoid bullet trains if the cost of tickets are priced high.For just 20% crowd this project is absolutely unviable...

Even if 40-50% of present travelling crowds take the High Speed Trains,
rest of the 50-60% poor and lower middle class can use the existing rail infra which would be decongested by that percentage... It would be a win-win situation for all the poor, middle class and rich.
And, its gonna involve private investments... It happened in many developed countries...

There is no doubt, Inftastrture is needed. But here the main thing is the Project Cost. If it was a 5000 crore Project, No one would have a made a comment on it. Babaji, Do you have any idea how much would cost for a person to travel from Hyd to Vij in the Bullett Train? (from any other sources)
Its not something that never happened anywhere in the world. so, relax.
It would only cost some where btn the express tain fare and the air fare for a given distance...
They can sell seasonal/monthly tickets to frequent travellers, thus increase the patronage, and sell food and beaverages on the train to make more revenues, and so on... If the travel time and fare are within comparable limits, many frequest travellers would prefer a high speed train to a flight, because there no check-in, check-out and other uncertain delays as in flights. and train stations are more easily accessible than airports for frequent travellers...

If a Hyd businessman has to visit Vij or Vizag for a day and can come back to Hyd before late night by high speed train, its the best bet. He doesn't have to stay in a hotel overnight, he doesn't have make those painful trips to-n-fro airports, he doesn't have to wait in line at the check-in counters, he doesn't have wait to collect his lugguage, he doesn't have to pay a fortune ...

good points babji...

you also need to look in to the future, what would people ask for 5,10, 15 years from now...as our economy grows people will want to travel faster and luxuriously. shatabdis and rajadhanis are not exactly fast compared to world standards, and athey are only getting more and more crowded. we can only run so many number of fast trains with our present infra.

and besides if railways still wanna grow in the future, they need to come up with fast trains, no choice...cuz all the airlines are expanding at a really fast pace.

dont look at current situation, look in to the future and see if the infra we have now is enough?

http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/travel/shinkansen.htm

Will there be any possibility to have stops in between Hyderabd and Vijayawada strech?

Can freight be transported in Bullet trains?

Thanks

I believe we need to talk seriously about how we are going to mold our future. What is lacking with us in India is....we don't often aim for the stars. We as a country need to take some risks. They might be things like building mega projects, social security to the working class etc., We need to realize that the outsourcing boom (not software) being seen in the cities is going to fizzle out in the near future. We will be left with a high number of graduates with fewer jobs. The only way to build our future economy is to invest in the infrastructure needs of the country. Our greatest strength and weakness is our population. A 1.2 billion strong. If we plan and invest correctly, this is going to be our greatest boon. Investment will keep on coming into the country because we have the market....a middle class of 300 million strong. A working class of 500 million strong....these numbers can be a great advantage if we plan and invest properly. The world has no where to go but to come to India and China for business. The future is ours.

Genomics centre in Hyderabad soon


HYDERABAD: A translational research centre in genomics, cell-tissue engineering and nanobiology, proposed by the Union Government at Hyderabad as a world-class institution, has been allotted 75 acres of land at Karkapatla near the city in Medak district.

The requisition was made originally for 150 acres but it was scaled down to 75 acres after a fresh assessment of the requirement.

Several other states competed with Andhra Pradesh to get this institution, but the final choice fell on Hyderabad following strenuous efforts made by the present director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Lalji Singh.

The State Cabinet, at its meeting here on Friday, decided to offer this land free of cost, considering the importance such an institution enjoys.

Information Minister A. Ramanarayan Reddy told reporters that the Centre had earmarked Rs 300 crores for the institution in the 11th Plan as against its estimated total outlay of Rs 1,000 crores, while the Planning Commission cleared the project. The institution would help in accurate and early diagnosis of ailments and offer treatment with stem cells and gene therapy.

Source: The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/14/stories/2007071453000400.htm)

[QUOTE=p.raghavendra6;14244075]It’s time to pull the brakes

Traffic Police To Track Down Speedsters With Laser Guns

Hyderabad: Things are going to be tough for speedsters in the city. For the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) and the traffic police will track them down with the newly acquired speed laser guns.

In a bid to make the speedsters pull the brakes, government has doled out Rs 2.66 crore to get 38 speed laser guns. Transport minister Kanna Lakshminarayana formally handed over the speed guns to the two departments on Thursday.

The gun measures the speed of a vehicle from a distance of 1.5 km, and can capture a vehicle’s image with registration number up to a distance of 250 metres, with its zoom provision up to 500 metres.Each speed gun costs around Rs 7 lakh.

While each of the 23 districts in the state has been given one unit each, the remaining 15 guns have been sent to the office of the Director General of Police. The DGP would later distribute the gadgets as per its efficacy and necessity. The minister said that if needed, more speed guns might be procured. Breaking the speed limit with feisty driving will invite a fine of Rs 1,000 or land you in prison for six months.

Traffic police, armed with the speed laser guns, will hit the road next week. The speed limit for vehicles has been set in accordance with provisions specified in the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Two-wheelers would have to stick to 50 kilometres per hour (kmph) and all transport vehicles, including buses and taxi vehicles should maintain the speed by 55 kmph in the city limits. The CMV, however, has no provisions for cars.

“We will issue a notification in a week’s time detailing speed limits for cars. On National Highways, the limit will be 80 kmph, on state highways 60 kmph and on roads in district and rural areas, the limit will be 30 kmph,” said joint transport commissioner B Venkateswarulu. After the state High Court shot down attempts to implement speed governors in the city, authorities consider speed guns, fines and convictions as a second chance in their efforts to curb speed.

The traffic police on Thursday held a meeting with autorickshaw owners. Additional commissioner of police (traffic) V S K Kaumudi told auto owners to properly brief their drivers while giving the vehicles on rent apart from providing them with all documents.

He said an orientation programme would be conducted for auto drivers in the second week of August. “We will ensure that their licence applications are processed immediately with the help of RTA. A major medical screening camp for the auto drivers is also being planned,” he said.

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looks good...the traffic cops need to be trained to use them on "bikers", call center cabs, under age speedsters etc

^^

Already posted at http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=14244075&postcount=447 in this thread. I have already voiced my comments.

Will there be any possibility to have stops in between Hyderabd and Vijayawada strech?
Can freight be transported in Bullet trains?...
There can be stops like Kazipet and Warangal btn Vij and Hyd.
It all depends upon the alignment and the business need.
High Speed Freight trains can be run on these routes for high value goods such as automobiles, computer hardware/fab equipment, courier services parcels, cloths and garments, fruit, flowers, and other export oriented items. Most likely, such routes will be accessible to the exisiting domestic and Intl airports - so it would be economical and viable...

URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/15/stories/2007071558390300.htm
4 roads to be free of obstacles
HYDERABAD: Four important road stretches in the twin cities will be fully developed to ensure free movement of vehicles. These road stretches will be cleared of encroachments and hawkers and parking of vehicles will not be allowed on these stretches. The four road stretches would be:

Assembly-Lakdikapul- Khairatabad – Panjagutta – Ameerpet and Erragadda;
Lakdikapul – Masab Tank – Road No 1 Banjara Hills – Panjagutta;
Airport – Somajiguda – Raj Bhavan road – Khairatabad; and
ABIDS – Basheerbagh – Tank Bund road.

According to a GHMC press release, the roads would be developed by relaying all bad stretches and potholes within ten days. Parking of vehicles will be restricted to a few identified locations and unauthorised parking in ‘No Parking’ areas would be towed away. A team of GHMC and traffic police has already completed a survey of these roads and identified certain transformers, electricity poles, garbage bins, encroachments to be removed and the water logging points to ensure free flow of traffic.

Red zones: Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) V.S.K. Kaumudi said space for free left turn would be earmarked on these stretches. Hawkers and pushcart vendors would not be allowed on routes declared as ‘Red Zones’. Licences of shops occupying public space and violate parking norms would be reconsidered.
signal-free left turn ... new lane markings ... signages (STOP, No Parking etc) ... within 10 days ...

Deccan Chronicle
GO to save ISB, Wipro, Microsoft
Hyderabad, July 14: The State government has accepted an expert panel’s recommendation to amend GO 111 which prevents construction within 10 km radius of Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar on the outskirts of the city. If the present provisions of the GO are implemented, many institutions including IIIT, Microsoft, Wipro, TCS, IBM, Infosys, Oracle, Infotech, Satyam, UBS, Bank of America, Franklin Templeton and Google would come under the list of ‘illegal constructions’.

To prevent this situation and to bail out some real estate companies, the State government has decided to amend the 11-year-old GO and allow developmental activity from beyond a 500-metre radius. The real estate companies had bought acres of land in the restricted area and the amendment would save their skin.

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy accepted the recommendations made by the 12-member panel but insisted that economic activities be carried out in a planned manner by addressing environmental concerns. The panel consisted of experts from NGRI, IICT, Icrisat, EPTRI and Huda. The Chief Minister asked officials to invite public comments and objections on the proposed amendments before issuing orders.

“We only accepted the recommendations of the experts and we are seeking feedback from the public,” said Mr Jannat Hussain, principal secretary to the Chief Minister. He added that the amendments would only affect the downstream area and there would be no danger to the catchment area. “We want to attract more companies to provide jobs,” he said.

The panel suggested that the areas falling within 500 metres from the bund or full tank level of Himayat Sagar and Osaman Sagar lakes be declared as prohibited zones. Residential development can be allowed in areas falling between 500 metres to 1 km in the downstream, by restricting the height up to 10 metres. This zone may be declared as low-development zone.

Areas beyond 1 km to 10 km can be opened up for all kinds of development, except for 65 most pollutant industries. The government will take up a detailed drainage and sewerage plan for the entire area in the downstream of the lakes. A 30-metre green belt shall be earmarked to protect the two surplus channels in the downstream area. Stringent controls will also be imposed on ground water use in the area.

CNG buses for city in December

HYDERABAD: The much awaited APSRTC Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses will be plying on the city roads by December this year.

In all, 100 buses are being procured by the corporation, of which five would be exclusively for Hyderabad and the rest for Vijayawada region. CNG buses will be sporting German red and white colour similar to the city ordinary services. Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy will be flagging off the first batch of CNG buses bound to Vijayawada at State Assembly on Monday. APSRTC signed an agreement last year with Ashok Leyland for manufacturing specialised chassis for these buses and Bhagyanagar Gas Limited (BGL) for supplying the gas. BGL will supply CNG with a dispenser in Vijayawada. It would supply CNG in cylinders to Hyderabad. At present, discussions were on with BGL over the cost of supplying gas, said a senior corporation official.

APSRTC is the first transport utility in southern India to use CNG for buses.

Source: The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/15/stories/2007071558380300.htm)

There can be stops like Kazipet and Warangal btn Vij and Hyd.
It all depends upon the alignment and the business need.
High Speed Freight trains can be run on these routes for high value goods such as automobiles, computer hardware/fab equipment, courier services parcels, cloths and garments, fruit, flowers, and other export oriented items. Most likely, such routes will be accessible to the exisiting domestic and Intl airports - so it would be economical and viable...

The distance between Kazipet and Warangal is just 6km.Impractical for Bullet trains to take off and stop immediately.Except for rice mills and cotton ginning mills there are no other worthwhile economic activities generating value added goods in the entire stretch from Hyderabad to Khammam.

Is Nalgonda X roads going to become a signal free junction? :?

I noticed that there are two ramps on the northern end of this flyover.

Construction is 95% finished.

bitumen laying is going on currently..

even painting work started at random places.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7182/flyoveret6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

At the pace it's economy is growing currently, India deserves major infrastructure projects like MRTS|BRTS|LRTS, high-speed rail corridors (freight+passenger), eight-lane expressways between major cities, six-lane national highways, world-class large capacity airports and (sea)ports at major coastal cities, drastic improvement over existing intracity, intercity and inter-state public translportation services (railways and bus services), top-notch communication services (telephone/mobile/internet) at reasonable costs etc., and it needs to start 'building' them today! Indefinite delays will not only result in the escalation of costs with time but also the chaos factor.

I am appalled by the criticism such major infra proposals receive from some forumers in here all the time. India maybe be a stagnant and an impoversihed nation to you but it is a dynamic and a progressive one to me. Timely implementation of these large-scale projects (which is now!) will help your "impoverished" country tackle the same issues you think will make them worse. Imagine the amount of long-term direct and indirect employment opportunities they will generate!

As your wallet gets fatter, your pockets need to get deeper too to hold it comfortably. It just is that simple.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ITeS/ExlService_to_expand_in_India_overseas/articleshow/2204970.cms


NEW DELHI: ExlService Holdings Inc, one of India's leading integrated business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, plans to invest $8 million for a new unit in Hyderabad even as it eyes overseas markets.

"We are looking at expanding to Hyderabad, which would typically be a 1,000-seater with the option of ramping it up in the future," said Rohit Kapoor, president and co-founder of EXL, who is also its chief operating officer.

EXL has three units in Gurgaon, Pune and Noida. The Hyderabad unit is slated to open by mid-2008.

"We are currently focussed on both organic and inorganic growth and are constantly scouting for captive partners as we want to take full advantage of the increasing trend of captives selling out to third-party BPOs," Kapoor said while elaborating on the company's plans to expand overseas.

The Nasdaq-listed BPO firm will soon open its BPO facilities in the Philippines, Romania and Croatia by following both the inorganic as well as greenfield route.

"We selected the Philippines because of their voice capability to handle international clients. Romania and Croatia were chosen because of their language skills," Kapoor maintained.

ExlService Holdings was recently rated one of the top 10 Indian third-party BPO players by the Indian IT industry's apex body Nasscom (National Association of Software and Service Companies).

On the issue of the appreciating rupee eroding the margins of some of the major players in the Indian IT space, Kapoor said, "The appreciation of the rupee would continue for some time now and it would definitely have a negative impact on the IT sector."

"Having said that, I must say the appreciation of the rupee won't affect us much, because unlike other domestic IT companies, 65 per cent of our cost base is in rupees whereas for others it is 80-85 per cent."

He further elaborated,"Moreover, 50 of our total revenues is in pounds sterling and the remaining 50 per cent is in dollars, so we are more diversified."

The company, which follows the calendar year as its financial year, reported revenues of about $121 million for 2006. It has set a revenue target of $160-$170 million for the current year.

In a landmark judgement on global investment major Morgan Stanley's BPO unit, the Supreme Court ruled that the income of its back-office unit in India was not taxable.

This, according to Nasscom, would reassure multinational companies who have their back offices here.

On this, Kapoor said, "Even though this has given a lot of clarity, it has also given rise to a lot of complexities regarding the deputation of expatriates and what kind of tax they pay."

Is Nalgonda X roads going to become a signal free junction? :?

I noticed that there are two ramps on the northern end of this flyover.

Construction is 95% finished.

bitumen laying is going on currently..

even painting work started at random places.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7182/flyoveret6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Just as reported, it is, in fact, going to be a trumpet interchange, if what you've said is right.

Nalgonda crossroads flyover :
The `trumpet' shaped Nalgonda crossroads flyover will be of four lanes and 750 metres in length, including a `loop.'

Likely to be open for public by 15 Aug 2007 ..

BS Reporter / Chennai/ Hyderabad July 11, 2007
PM to visit Hyderabad on July 31
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, for the first time during his three years in office, will hold a day-long review meeting with the Andhra Pradesh government on issues ranging from agriculture to the pending clearances with the Centre with regard to irrigation projects, here on July 31, 2007.

A senior government official said the Prime Minister’s review meeting would be a broad-based one and not just confined to the implementation of the Prime Minister’s package, which was announced to the distress districts or the agriculture sector.

The state government is, however, gearing up to give a detailed account of its ongoing initiatives in agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry as the Prime Minister’s primary concern this time is expected to be about achieving 4 per cent growth in agriculture.

Chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Tuesday held a meeting with senior officials of various departments in connection with the Prime Minister’s scheduled visit...

We need to realize that the outsourcing boom (not software) being seen in the cities is going to fizzle out in the near future. We will be left with a high number of graduates with fewer jobs

Are you sure of this? From what i've read, outsourcing seems to be picking up pace.

I think it will still increase, and just offshoring. As more and more products are being sold in india, we wil need customer service for them as well. So eventually most of the indian BPO companies might end up providing call centre service for companies within india instead of the US or europe.

^^

Its very true. As more and more companies expand in India, even if outsourcing fizzles out, the companies providing BPO services to companies abroad will use the expertise to provide support services to businesses within India.

Here you go

Source: The Hindu

http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/10/images/2004091015140301.jpg

Is Nalgonda X roads going to become a signal free junction? :?
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7182/flyoveret6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Here you go

Source: The Hindu

http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/10/images/2004091015140301.jpg


So this will be the first signal free interchange of Hyderabad. :)

( are there any flyovers of this type already existing in Hyd :?)

Are you sure of this? From what i've read, outsourcing seems to be picking up pace.

Earnings on account of outsourcing by foriegn companies is more than from the local companies.More and more local companies need to outsource inorder to reduce dependence on clients/customers overseas.If the overseas clients/companies start outsourcing their need from within their own country then there may be decline in earnings here for our companies.

Sunway Opus condo set for launch in 2008
July 16, 2007

SUNWAY Opus Grand Residency, set for launch in the middle of next year, will mark Sunway City Bhd's (SunCity) maiden foray in the vast Indian property market. Located in the suburb of Ameenpur, about 15km northwest of Hyderabad, the 3,400 high-end lakefront condominiums is set to woo the growing Indian property buyers looking for premium quality residences.

“The modern and practical designs of our residences are set within an eco-friendly environment and facilities to meet the changing lifestyle of the Hyderabad folks,” managing director (property development) Ngian Siew Siong said.

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/1678/sunwayopusjx3.jpg

A floating boutique clubhouse on a lake will provide a host of lifestyle amenities, including lakeside spa and fitness retreat and a lake-view environmental deck. The gated and guarded development will be fitted with high security features and top-notch property maintenance services.

With average built-up of 1,500 sq ft, the condominium units will be priced from RM280 (~ Rs.3,300) to RM320 (~ Rs.3,800) per sq ft or at an average price of RM440,000 (~ Rs.5,200,000) a unit. The RM1.5bil (~ Rs.1760 crores) project, to be undertaken in three phases, will be launched by the middle of next year and completed in four to five years. The project will be jointly undertaken by SunCity's wholly-owned unit, Sunway City India Pte Ltd, with Indian property group Opus Developers & Builders Pte Ltd, which is a conglomerate of 10 small to mid-size builders from Hyderabad.

Opus will provide local knowledge for construction and development while SunCity will be in charge of marketing, project conception, execution and finance. SunCity will have an effective 50% stake in the joint venture and a profit sharing of 40.5% that will provide a net profit of RM10mil in financial year 2009 and RM30mil in 2011.

Ngian said its location near Hyderabad's Hitech City made the project an ideal address for the growing population of senior information technology professionals working in the biotech city who are seeking more premium housing. The freehold site is also strategically located about 4.5km from the NH9 national highway, which connects to Mumbai. The site is close to the Hyderabad Outer Ring Road and the city's mass rapid transport system, both to be completed in 2009.

Ngian said the company expected demand to come from local Indians who are benefiting from Hyderabad’s buoyant economy and in particular, purchasers from the more densely populated Kukatpally, which is 3km away. Being the leading bio-tech hub of India, the high-tech city of Hyderabad has more than 100 million sq ft of built-up IT space that are occupied by multinational software giants such as Microsoft, Dell, Google, Wipro and Infosys.

“With its largely under-developed real estate sector and growing demand for well designed and foreign branded residences, SunCity is well placed to become a market favourite by leveraging on our brand premium and good product offerings,” SunCity senior general manager of sales and marketing, Sarena Cheah said. She said the rapid urbanisation trends, people's rising affluence from the IT boom, growing number of households and shortage of good-quality housing had created a huge untapped market for developers with strong products.

SunCity's second project in India, Sunway Prajay condominiums on five acres in Hyderabad, will comprise 400 luxury high-rise residences with a potential RM300mil GDV. The project is scheduled for launch in 2009.

Source: The Sunway Group (http://www.sunway.com.my/webgroups/gpa_press_newspopup.asp?id=992)

URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/17/stories/2007071750600100.htm
Railways seeks private participation to introduce high-speed trains
CHENNAI: The Railways is looking for public-private partnership to in introduce ing high-speed trains in select corridors.

As such high-speed trains can be operated only on dedicated elevated corridors, costing at least Rs. 70 crore a per kmilometre, private participation has become imperative, according to Southern Railway General Manager Thomas Varghese. There are demands for bullet trains from Chennai to Ernakulam, Bangalore, Coimbatore and Madurai and from Trivandrum to Mangalore.

The Railway Board Chairman recently held detailed discussions with Chief Secretaries of Tamil Nadu and Kerala on this issue. As heavy investments are needed to realise these demands, an in-depth market survey on possible clientele who could afford to pay fares on a par with those of airlines would have to be carried out.

A bullet train between Chennai and Bangalore would be ideal in view of the increasing passenger patronage between the cities, Mr. Varghese said in an interview on Monday.

The Railway Board recently decided to have at least one high-speed corridor in each zone...
URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/17/stories/2007071750450100.htm
CNG buses hit the road in State
HYDERABAD: Public transport buses with environment-friendly compressed natural gas (CNG) as fuel have hit the road in Andhra Pradesh for the first time in south India.

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy flagged off three CNG buses of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bound for Vijayawada in the Assembly premises here on Monday...

wrong thread babji, that should be in chennai threads...^^

wrong thread babji, that should be in chennai threads...^^

thats right.
we also had some discussions here recently about bullet (high speed) train corridors in AP and so I thought it would be of interest to some members ...

good enough

Are you sure of this? From what i've read, outsourcing seems to be picking up pace.

As i said, i was referring to outsourcing. I was pretty clear on the indegenous software growth.....as we make right investments in services and infrastructure our economy will continue to grow. And our huge population will then be a great advantage...which would make us one of the largest markets in the world and a great buying powerhouse. That means....there is no other way the western world can ignore us....they have to come down to India for business.

But the key point is investment.
:)

Not sure if this has been posted before...

Aparna Sarovar
http://www.aparnaconstructions.com/

14 Towers - 20 Floors each

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5862/aparnasarovarhyderabadhf1.jpg

They have some completed projects like

Aparna Heights

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5727/aparnaheights1mo9.jpg

Aparna Orchid

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4140/aparnaorchidscz3.jpg

Aparna Senor Valley

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/3767/aparnasenorvalleyla5.jpg

Villa Greens, Hyderabad
http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/7131/westfacingvillastreetb1kn1.jpg
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/200/roadcrossrd2.jpg
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/1640/waterbodyinthecentrallnt6.jpg
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/1096/westfacingb1ij3.jpg

Last couple of decades India focused on creating English speaking manpower, while China focused on infrastructure.

Now China is strongly into building English speaking manpower, this is the right time for us to focus on infra like China did.

In fact high-speed trains costlier or as costly as airways. Sometime in future, India will have its first high-speed trains at high traffic, short distance routes.
eg Delhi-Agra, Chennai-Bangalore.

I am damn sure that Bullett Trains are not effordable to poor people

Can someone list out the various professional institutes coming up in Hyderabad?

1.) IIT
2.) BITS
3.) NIMS
4.) Georgia Tech
5.) ...?

what about B-Schools?

Last couple of decades India focused on creating English speaking manpower.

If you mean focus as coming from the government, then surely the government did nothing much on this front. Indeed most political parties of various hues (especially the regional and red varieties) who run the governments at the local levels have often tried to get rid of English on the justification that it is a "colonial", "imperialist" language and not the mother tongue of most Indians. Teaching English, many of these politicians claimed, was not in the interest of the "poor" and the "downtrodden". But most politicians also sent their own children to English medium schools.

It is only because the middle class attaches value to education and understands the importance of English in India and the western world, that English survived.

Nowadays we also see many of the parties (and their trade union extensions) which opposed IT/computers, falling head over heels in trying to project an IT friendly image. How things change.

:)

If you mean focus as coming from the government, then surely the government did nothing much on this front. Indeed most political parties of various hues (especially the regional and red varieties) who run the governments at the local levels have often tried to get rid of English on the justification that it is a "colonial", "imperialist" language and not the mother tongue of most Indians. Teaching English, many of these politicians claimed, was not in the interest of the "poor" and the "downtrodden". But most politicians also sent their own children to English medium schools.

It is only because the middle class attaches value to education and understands the importance of English in India and the western world, that English survived.

Nowadays we also see many of the parties (and their trade union extensions) which opposed IT/computers, falling head over heels in trying to project an IT friendly image. How things change.

:)


What I really meant was at a macro level we see this effect. At least our government did not stop the private educational institutes from teaching English. Whereas in China it was strictly banned. Now they are realizing its importance and hoping / working to compete with us in English. So, they already have good infrastructure, now working on human resources. We have good human resources, so time to work on infrastructure. Otherwise we cannot compete.

Can someone list out the various professional institutes coming up in Hyderabad?

1.) IIT
2.) BITS
3.) NIMS
4.) Georgia Tech
5.) ...?

what about B-Schools?

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (Mumbai) is planning to set up a campus in Hyderabad. :)

What I really meant was at a macro level we see this effect. At least our government did not stop the private educational institutes from teaching English. Whereas in China it was strictly banned. Now they are realizing its importance and hoping / working to compete with us in English. So, they already have good infrastructure, now working on human resources. We have good human resources, so time to work on infrastructure. Otherwise we cannot compete.

English language came to india because of the British rule for around 200 years.It was the official language and the babus (white collar employees of British India) learned the language for survival and passed on to the generations thereafter.Further,english language was spread by catholic and protestan churches thru convent schools.After independence english was sidelined in preference to local languages.Now everybody realise the importance of english in the globalised world.For China english is an alien language.They were never colonised by the British Empire Except for Hongkong.Mandarin (Predominant language spoken in China) is spoken by the largest population of the world.English was never banned in China.They r learning now to further their business and increase prosperity.

Mehidipatnam FOB.
gone waste. :bash:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/1556/fobfw8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Mehidipatnam FOB.
gone waste. :bash:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/1556/fobfw8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Firstly its a waste and secondly its bad planning becoz we have PVNR expressway comming over it. I suppose they have already decided to de-assemble the FOB and move it to Towlichowki.

Panel okays site for IIT (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/07/18/stories/2007071851652100.htm)


A five-member panel from the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has expressed satisfaction over the facilities available at Kandi Village, Sanga Reddy Mandal, Medak district to set up the proposed Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

The committee had requested the State Government to provide temporary accommodation for the institute as per the normal procedure as the permanent construction would take some time, Mr Ravi Mathur, Joint Secretary (Technology), Ministry of HRD and member of the panel told newspersons after meeting the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, here on Tuesday.

Aparna Orchid

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4140/aparnaorchidscz3.jpg


cool.... it doesnt even look like india....
I wish they made wider roads though...

Mehidipatnam FOB.
gone waste...
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/1556/fobfw8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Infact, its not a complete waste...
It has served its purpose since the date of construction, while the PVNR EEway is under construction. Also, this has been designed in such a way that the whole thing can be de-assembled and re-assembled elsewhere if needed. (Nut n bolt assembly as against a concrete structure)

Thats what they are going to do ...

Deccan Chronicle
Boeing named after AP
Hyderabad, July 17: Air India’s first Boeing-777 non-stop flight to New York has been named Andhra Pradesh. The State has scored one over its neighbours by getting AI to agree to this christening, which is expected to boost its tourism potential. The airliner is acquiring 68 new planes as part of fleet upgrading and of this, eight are long range flights.

Andhra Pradesh will go on its maiden 14-hour flight to New York from Mumbai on August 1. The aircraft with latest twin engine technology can carry 250 people. Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy and tourism minister Anam Ramnarayan Reddy will be there to see it take off. They would also ensure that the flight would ‘market’ the State as a fantastic destination for tourists. Its interior would itself be decorated to display Andhra’s vibrant culture.

“We will screen a short film on the State during the flight,” said Tourism Secretary Mrs Chitra Ramachandran. “We are packaging the film in such a way that it will give the passengers a complete picture.” Apart from this, the passengers will also get an audio presentation in Telugu and English. Tourism officials are keen on playing legendary Annamayya keertans and some Tollywood numbers in-flight.

“We will also supply the passengers a colourful pouch which would have all the relevant brochures,” said Mrs Chitra. “This is a great opportunity to promote our State aggressively.” The Union Tourism Ministry and AI have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AP Tourism to take up promotion of the state. It was a happy event for tourism officials who made frenetic efforts to convince AI to name the aircraft after the State so that it could be a ‘brand on wings’

I wish they have cycleable footpaths on both sides of the road.


cool.... it doesnt even look like india....
I wish they made wider roads though...

cool.... it doesnt even look like india....
I wish they made wider roads though...

Since it is a gated community , I think they might have provided visitors parking lots somewhere else. :)

Copyright @ Vangala :)


u/c flyover at punjagutta.

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/1341/vangala6li9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Looks very narrow. Is it one lane? or two lane?

Like I mentioned before. Hyd has inferior design & quality flyovers coming up with lack of any vision for future. 2 lane flyover is a waste of public funds & is of no use whatsoever. It will never decongest the traffic. Hyd should really hire some Delhi engineers to learn how to design & build 4-6 lane flyovers.

Copyright @ Vangala :)
u/c flyover at punjagutta.
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/1341/vangala6li9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Like I mentioned before. Hyd has inferior design & quality flyovers coming up with lack of any vision for future. 2 lane flyover is a waste of public funds & is of no use whatsoever. It will never decongest the traffic. Hyd should really hire some Delhi engineers to learn how to design & build 4-6 lane flyovers.

I think it is the problem with the funds rather than the engineers. Lots of money is been spent in Delhi for the forthcoming CW games, whereas other cities get [or spend]only peanuts comparitively. If the same happens, any city can have good infra.
First the GOI should stop bidding Delhi for games like Olympics. Instead they should choose some other city as it improves the infrastructure of the cities. Countries like South Korea is bidding for a city other than Seoul, but still we don want to leave Delhi.:bash:

Looks very narrow. Is it one lane? or two lane?

What is shown in the pic is the 2 lane unidirectional flyover.
The point where the pic is taken is the start of the downward ramp of two lanes ( from the opposite direction).

Punjagutta flyover has 4 lanes ( 2 in either direction) over one junction and 2 lanes ( unidirectional) over the remaining 2 junctions

I think it is the problem with the funds rather than the engineers. Lots of money is been spent in Delhi for the forthcoming CW games, whereas other cities get [or spend]only peanuts comparitively. If the same happens, any city can have good infra.
First the GOI should stop bidding Delhi for games like Olympics. Instead they should choose some other city as it improves the infrastructure of the cities. Countries like South Korea is bidding for a city other than Seoul, but still we don want to leave Delhi.:bash:

Yes, it is open news to most now that infrastructure ( for managing traffic bottlenecks) has virtually crumbled in Hyd and the govt can spend no more than building flyovers that may not last their purpose. Punjagutta and Greenlands flyovers ( both delayed by 6 months) are examples in this aspect.

Today, Punjagutta police towed away my bike for illegal parking. >(

I had to shell out Rs 200/- :2cents: (50 for illegal parking, 150 for towing). :gaah:

I argued that I parked within the margin, but the guy at the police station said that they cant do much coz they already prepared the challan. They didnot even showed me the photograph proof. :rant:

By the way, Is our traffic police department outsourced? :?
most of the personnel inside the station were some private security agency fellows wearing police uniform. :shocked:

Overwhelming response to sale of residential space at LANCO HILLS
18 July, 2007

The offer for sale of residential apartments at Manikonda, Hyderabad by LANCO Hills Technology Park Pvt Ltd – a 74% subsidiary of LANCO Infratech Ltd (LITL) – has received tremendous response. About 4 million square feet of residential space has been booked within three days of the opening of the bookings to the public.

LANCO Hills is one of the largest mixed development projects in the world comprising residential accommodation, IT SEZ and Non-SEZ area, commercial spaces, malls, entertainment zones and hotels. The signature tower being planned at LANCO Hills would be the world’s highest residential tower. The total area being developed would be around 30 million square feet. The complete project is targeted for completion in various phases ranging from 2 to 4 years.

Commenting on the tremendous response, LITL Chairman L Madhusudhan Rao said, “The phenomenal response received for the bookings of residential accommodation at LANCO Hills indicates the demand for quality apartment buildings in Indian cities. It would be our endeavor to undertake high quality property initiatives and deliver them within committed time schedules. The confidence reposed in the company by the public has been a humbling experience.”

LANCO Infratech Ltd is one of the fastest growing corporate entities in India with gross revenue of Rs 16,473 million and a net worth of Rs 15,105 million. It has more than two decades of experience operating in the core sectors of Power Generation, Power Trading, Realty, Engineering and Construction and other Infrastructure projects. At present, the power portfolio includes an operating capacity of 518 MW and additional capacities under construction aggregating to more than 3,200 MW. The Construction and EPC division of the company is executing various orders worth more than Rs 7,500 crore.


Source: Moneycontrol India (http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/pressnews/overwhelming-response-to-saleresidential-space/20/43/292963)

Hyderabad as a modern city
19 Jul, 2007 l 0000 hrs ISTlMONA RAMAVAT Times News Network /TNN
Hyderabad Times catches up with historian Eric Beverley who was in town to present a talk on the emergence of Hyderabad as a modern city in the days of the Nizam.

What got you interested in the history of Hyderabad and Secunderabad?

I have studied several postcolonial cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Lahore, Surat and many other South East Asian cities with a history of European colonialism. That got me interested in Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

How is Hyderabad unique as a post-colonial city?

Well, the diversity and complexity of the city that resulted from several influences - political, economic and cultural - have made it unique. Besides, what sets Hyderabad apart from most other post-colonial cities of the world is that along with the colonial rule, there was actually another sovereign political power in the form of the Nizam in the case of Hyderabad. And that is also why I chose the intellectual, institutional and urban history of Hyderabad for my doctoral studies.

How has Hyderabad changed over the years, even from the time you were here for your research?

I was in Hyderabad between 2002-2003 and Hyderabad has changed tremendously in the last four years. It is a similar pattern of the emergence of Hyderabad as a modern city during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There was a clear northward movement of the old city's population across the Moosi river. This had a marked effect on the commercial and cultural development of the city. The same pattern has repeated all through the 21st century. The IT boom, TDP's vision and a capitalist oriented development strategy of the Congress have been other factors .

How did Secunderabad evolved as a twin city?

Secunderabad was under direct British control and like the cantonment area of any other city, had a flavour of its own. However, after the Railways came to India in 1874, Secunderabad became more economically and culturally linked to Hyderabad. That's when it blended more seamlessly with Hyderabad as a twin city, but till today Secunderabad has retained its unique flavour.
hyderabadtimes@indiatimes .com

I think it is the problem with the funds rather than the engineers...
well said!

Please continue at the new thread at:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=14337776#post14337776

Admins/Mods: Please lock this thread as a new one is opened. Thanks. :)

With the kind of advertising they did, we can expect a lot of bakras to buy.
They may or may not build the signature tower to the stated height, but in the meantime it is a good markerting tool to get their other towers booked.


Source: Moneycontrol India (http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/pressnews/overwhelming-response-to-saleresidential-space/20/43/292963)

Funds can always be generated by higher taxes on petrol like Bangalore did.
There is lack of Vision or Master plan.
Planning is for next elections and not for future needs.

I think it is the problem with the funds rather than the engineers.

Like I mentioned before. Hyd has inferior design & quality flyovers coming up with lack of any vision for future. 2 lane flyover is a waste of public funds & is of no use whatsoever. It will never decongest the traffic. Hyd should really hire some Delhi engineers to learn how to design & build 4-6 lane flyovers.

I dont buy this argument. It's just that Delhi gets more funds from the taxes paid from all over the country. At one level it is understandable that we are spending on the capital city, but it should not be overdone. States get back only about 20% of the taxes they earn, rest goes to Delhi (ofcourse to be spent back to the entire nation). But a little more percentage of money goes in Delhi budget than what they exactly earn.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Hyderabad/Legal_wrangles_delay_flyovers/articleshow/2215843.cms

HYDERABAD: A handful of properties, including those of two former judges, literally put a spanner in flyover works in the city, resulting in overshooting deadlines and inconvenience to road-users.

The Punjagutta flyover was caught in legal wrangles, a maze of cables and pipelines. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), the executing agency, could acquire a property belonging to a showroom only in April, 2007, two months after the ‘official’ deadline.

Similarly, the Greenlands flyover has overshot the deadline by eight months due to a hitch with four properties. The last of these was taken over in April.

Likewise, it took nine months for officials to acquire property of one Habeeb at Chandrayanagutta. Though the flyover works began in September, 2005, acquisition was completed in April this year.

These three flyovers showcase official apathy. As a result, traffic congestion is not an aberration, but the norm in the city.

Though GHMC officials claim land acquisition was the reason for delays, they refuse to admit that they started these projects without acquiring land in the first place.

Of 116 properties identified for acquisition, 38 land owners gave their consent, while the majority settled for the land acquisition mode. Only a handful went to court. For getting a property of former judge B Subhashan Reddy at Somajiguda, the officials had to spend three months to complete all formalities to acquire it.

The branched-out Punjagutta flyover is eight months behind schedule. Changes in the alignment at Chutney’s, acquisition of properties and ever-increasing traffic resulted in delay, claim officials.

“Normally, construction of a pier takes 15 days, but due to underground cables, water and sewer lines, the contractor, Gammon India, could complete one pier in three months,’’ GHMC superintending engineer R Sridhar said. Now, the corporation hopes to open it in November.

The 1.1 km-long Greenlands flyover is behind schedule by nine months. The contractor, JMC Projects, bagged the work in December, 2005 and was to complete it by February, 2007. However, the works were stalled at the Begumpet road over bridge (ROB) when the railways raised doubts on the stability of the bridge. The new flyover would be merged with the existing ROB. As the railways wanted to see the design of the flyover, precious two months was lost. The rail officials agreed to the proposal only after studying a JNTU report on the bridge post merger.

After several impediments, the flyover works are now progressing. It is likely to be opened by November. The trumpet-shaped Nalgonda crossroads flyover got delayed for over eight months due to acquisition delays and traffic diversions. The disabled welfare department took five months to hand over property to GHMC.

The flyover works began in November, 2005, but due to a controversy over the alignment drawings it actually started in January, 2006. It is likely to be over in September.

The smallest flyover (450 metre-long Chandrayanagutta flyover) took nearly two years for completion though the project time was just 10 months. The flyover works started in October, 2005 and should have been ready by September, 2006. Of six properties, one property owner went to court. After the court verdict, the corporation was forced to cough up Rs 7 lakh.

With the flyover almost ready, the authorities plan to inaugurate it by August 15. Apart from the flyovers, two ROBs in the city are also behind schedule.

After nine long years and acquisition delays, the Sithaphalmandi ROB, which started in 1999, is likely to be ready by December.

The Jamai-Osmania ROB, which too began in 1999, is in the final stages of completion. It is likely to be opened by August 15.

With deferring deadlines becoming the norm, harried road-users have no option but to bear the inconvenience with a smile.

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