Indian School of Business @ Hyderabad needs no introduction. It's an International quality project designed by the Famous bureau of John Portman & Associates. Here are a few renderings of this project, which BTW is complete and operational since the past 3 yrs. :)

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Nice...

Old news of the tower. Any recent news? Please post em here.

City company plans 60-floor skyscraper
CH SUSHIL RAO

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2003 01:44:01 AM ]

HYDERABAD : India ’s tallest building with 60 floors is being planned in Hyderabad . It is the outcome of the ‘think big, think vertical’ concept.

If Gupta’s plans fructify the building would be a reality in five years. But before that Gupta has hurdles to clear. The building needs clearances from the police, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad , and the fire department.

As of now, the tallest building in the city is the Babu Khan Estate at Basheerbagh, which has 14 floors. The tallest building in the country is the 45-storyed Shreepati Arcade in Mumbai.

The tower in Hyderabad , being planned by the G S group of companies, was inspired by a 114-floor-tower Gowrishankar Gupta said he saw in Shanghai , China . Gupta said he is considering certain sites in Banjara Hills, Madhapur, and other places for the venture.

“People can dine in the restaurant we plan to have on the 60th floor,’’ Gowrishankar Gupta, chairman and managing director of GS group of Companies, which plans to construct the towers, said.

We have to think big and do Hyderabad proud, Gupta said.

On the sixth floor, there will be a helipad. Plans are to have shops from the 1st floor to the 3rd floor, exhibitions and conventions from the 4th floor to the sixth floor, and from there up to the 10th floor there would be multiplexes. The floors from there up to the 40th floor, will house multinational firms, and from the 40th floor to the 59th floor, will house five-star hotels. On the 60th floor will be a revolving restaurant.

Will this be a reality? “We are working towards that. We have already given representations in the government for clearances,” Gupta said.

The Hyderabad tower is facing competion from a Mumbai building for the tallest skyscraper status. A 60-storied residential complex is being planned to be constructed by SD Corporation, a venture of Shapoorji Pellonji and Co. and Dilip Thaker.

After this ambitious announcements 10 months ago, guess what?....This "think bit think vertical" concept seems to be stuck in the neutral gear it seems. We haven't heard anything at all from them so far. unless its a brilliant move to keep this lucrative project in hush hush & wait & see Tardeo towers height after their completion. This way they can beat it rightaway.

Whatever the case may be. Chances are that this project hasn't gotten clearance from either police,or municipal corp. or fire department.

After this ambitious announcements 10 months ago, guess what?....This "think bit think vertical" concept seems to be stuck in the neutral gear it seems. We haven't heard anything at all from them so far. unless its a brilliant move to keep this lucrative project in hush hush & wait & see Tardeo towers height after their completion. This way they can beat it rightaway.

Whatever the case may be. Chances are that this project hasn't gotten clearance from either police,or municipal corp. or fire department.
Yeah must've not got clearance esp. from the fire dept!

This is not the first one to do the disappearing act!

Bangalore thought of a 100 storey for some time in 1998..

http://www.rediff.com/computer/1998/feb/04park.htm

Rs 4.8b 100-story software facility mooted in Bangalore

The Karnataka government has given consent to a Rs 4.8-billion software technology park project. And it is to be housed in the tallest office building in India called Space City.

The 360-metre tall 100-storey building would provide 1.6 million square feet of office space on a 60-acre plot on the Hosur Road in Bangalore.

Inder R Jaggi, the chief promoter of the project, has said that the complex would provide working space for 20,000 software professionals. Civil construction is expected to commence in June and will be completed in three years.

The project is being developed through the debt-financing route. Jaggi said the financing scheme has not been finalised, adding that foreign financial institutions have shown keen interest in investing the project.

A few New York-based architects and a British consultant have been shortlisted to work on the project.

The state government has given the fast-track status to the project with Karnataka Udyog Mitra assisting the promoters.

State government sources say five sites on the Hosur Road have been proposed.


And Kolkata had a 50 storey tower to be built by a Singapore company.


Singapore firm keen on building Kolkata tower
Our Bureau

http://www.blonnet.com/2002/11/20/stories/2002112001501300.htm

KOLKATA, Nov. 19

CESMA International Pte, a consultancy outfit promoted by Singapore's housing board, has evinced interest in Kolkata's first 50-storeyed building, a project that has also found support from a couple of local players.

The building, christened `Gateway to Kolkata', will be a three-way project between Kolkata Municipal Corporation (which will provide the land on the eastern fringe of the city), Srishti Infrastructure Development and Srei International. The last two companies are local entities; so far they have been involved in a number of projects.

Cesma International, according to the plan that has been formulated, will be responsible for the project's master planning as well as for its architectural designing, structural engineering and quality surveying.

To be owned initially by the Government of West Bengal, the project will feature such amenities as multiplexes, shopping malls and a food court. The entire configuration will come up on a seven-acre land.

Sources aware of the development point out that `Gateway to Kolkata' will be the tallest building in the city, surpassing the well-known Chatterjee International (a commercial property) and Tata Centre (the local headquarters of the Tatas).

Cesma International is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Housing & Development Board, Singapore. It has expertise in feasibility studies, urban design, landscaping and pre-cast construction technology.

Elsewhere in the world, the company has started projects ranging from small-scale ones to townships. Its operations have spanned countries like China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan. At the moment, it is involved in master planning and designing of projects in Shanghai and Beijing.

"Cesma also forms part of consortia with prominent local players,'' sources told Business Line, adding that the Kolkata project too will be on similar lines. In India, Cesma has already tied up with the Andhra Pradesh Government for a township on 700 acres of land near Hyderabad. For a Singapore-based company, the AP project is a first of sorts in India.

Shows that there are several people who wanna build nice talls but are discouraged because of poor infrastructure or not given clearance or halted by activists. Situation could change in a couple of years....

Shows that there are several people who wanna build nice talls but are discouraged because of poor infrastructure or not given clearance or halted by activists. Situation could change in a couple of years....

Hopefully it will change :cheers:

BTW could this be the building in question.

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/housing/apartmentbuilding/obelisk/Obelisk-1.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/housing/apartmentbuilding/obelisk/Obelisk-2.jpg

Well that design takes getting used to, looks like a stalagmite!

Well that design takes getting used to, looks like a stalagmite!

Kinda strange. But it seems there is a similar one too somewhere. I have forgotten the name.

http://www.hcilondon.net/images/images-studyinginindia/isb-hyd.jpg

shanghais got a 112storied building???? :?

oops 114 i mean :D

being planned by the G S group of companies, was inspired by a 114-floor-tower Gowrishankar Gupta said he saw in Shanghai , China .
114 Flo
thats what i was thinking what was he tripping when he saw that !!!
or what Shanghai did he go to ????
nothng like that there or even planned as far as i know !!!!

Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

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Image Trade Centre, Hyderabad

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Usha Enclave, Hyderabad

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Suryodaya (tata), Hyderabad

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Lotus Park, Secunderabad

http://www.buildinfotech.com/bitsv2/images1/lotuspark.jpg

Maya Bazaar, Hyderabad

http://www.buildinfotech.com/bitsv2/images1/mayabazar.jpg

Ashoka Towers, Hyderabad

http://www.hyderabadbest.com/cityresources/Real_Estate/builders/ashokabuilders/img/building5.jpg

Ashoka Lake View, Hyderabad

http://www.hyderabadbest.com/cityresources/Real_Estate/builders/ashokabuilders/img/building3.jpg

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Greens Tower, Hyderabad

http://www.modiproperties.com/homebg_greens.jpg

I believe Phase I (Cybertower) & Phase II(cyber gateways) are now completed. Phase III is what Hi-Tec city is working on right now.

Here are some renderings of 3rd city of Hyderabad.

http://www.hyderabadbest.com/cityresources/Computers_and_Internet/img/hitechcity5.jpg

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Cyber Pearl - Hi-Tech City Phase III

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call centre

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Hi Tec City, Phase II (Completed).

Excuse the Microscopic PQ, Couldn't find better source.

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http://midas.vanenburg.com/ims/recp-sm.jpg http://midas.vanenburg.com/ims/night-sm.jpg

http://midas.vanenburg.com/ims/working-station_small.jpg


Hi Tec City, Phase III (Started)

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Hi Tec City, Phase IV project Launched, to be completed by 2005

Vanenburg IT Park - Phase IV project launched. Building with 160,000 sq.ft. of office space will be ready for fit-outs in March 2005
Vanenburg IT Park - Mariner, Auriga and Orion buildings achieve 95% occupancy
Five companies to occupy Orion Block: C3I, Cognizant, Computer Associates, Invensys and TNS
Vanenburg IT Park Phase III Building (Orion Block) fully leased out by June 30, 2004
The building was commissioned and services were unveiled on July 15, 2004
C3I, a Customer Relationship Management company focused on the Life Sciences vertical, sets up its first offshore center at Vanenburg IT Park (October 2003)
Computer Associates signs up 100,000 Sft in Orion block
NFO - a subsidiary of TNS, previously known as Taylor Nelson Sofres(LSE:TNN.L), the 3rd largest custom market research group in the world, leases office space in Vanenburg IT Park (October 2003)
Xiotech, the leading Storage Area Networks company based in Eden Praireie, Minnesota sets up R&D center in Auriga Block (September 2003) in association with Cedar Technlologies
650 seater column free, fully equipped Auditorium inaugurated on August 15, 2003
GMAC Commercial Mortgage acquires Capmark Services and expands operations by leasing more space (July 2003)
Motorola Computer Group (NYSE:MOT) opens new Software Development Center in Vanenburg IT Park. This center marks MCG's entry into India and will accommodate its Advanced Platforms Organization (July 2003)
Conexant, (NASDAQ:CNXT) a worldwide leader in semiconductor system solutions that enable digital information and entertainment networks sets up an R&D center in Mariner building (June 2003)
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.(NASDAQ:SWKS), the leading wireless semiconductor company moves into Vanenburg IT Park (June 2003)

YSR approves proposal for 1,360-crore ring road project
By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 19. The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, has agreed, in principle, to the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority's proposal for a 159-km second (outer) ring road at an estimated cost of Rs. 1,360 crores.

At a review meeting on development of satellite townships in continuation of the massive programme to develop land banks on Saturday, he asked officials to go ahead with land acquisition and put together a detailed project report.

He also agreed to HUDA's proposal for developing 22 new mega townships by acquiring 20,000 acres of land.

Dr. Reddy sat through a presentation on land development by urban development authorities (UDAs) and municipalities where the suggestion that UDAs acquire land and sell fully developed plots to individuals for housing and other purposes was put forward.

Call to identify land


In order to kick-start the work, Dr. Reddy is said to have decided that Government vacant lands maybe identified and handed over to the UDAs concerned or urban local bodies. This could be used to raise seed capital and facilitate its investment in development of future townships.

The Andhra Pradesh Housing Board, too, would be involved in the development of such sites and money thus generated could be ploughed back for developing townships around existing urban local bodies.

Action plan sought


Accordingly, officials have proposed to acquire 1,600 acres under the Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority at a cost of Rs. 80 crores to develop 32,000 plots for housing, 50 acres at Rs. 18 crores to develop 600 plots in 20 acres and a truck terminal.

While dwelling on the concept of satellite townships, Dr. Reddy asked officials to prepare an action plan and formulate guidelines within a week for developing them with the required civic amenities.

I am glad that they expanded 2nd ORR project to 99 miles (159 km) from original 63 miles (108 km) that was planned. It give a huge more space for development between Inner RR & Outer RR as well.

Great. Hope they start work soon.

Take up ring road project at one go: YSR

By Our Staff Reporter



HYDERABAD, SEPT. 23. The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, on Thursday gave the go-ahead for the proposed alignment of the 159-km second ring road around the State capital and asked the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) to take up land acquisition and road work at one go, instead of phase-wise development. The decision was taken after discussions with HUDA on important projects. Also, he wanted the proposed 22 new townships be planned and integrated with the 2nd Ring Road and other circulation network centres, including IT-business-related industries, other employment generation activities and residential development.

Panel to be formed


The HUDA chairman, D. Sudheer Reddy, and MD, G. Ashok Kumar, said the HUDA would mobilise funds on its own from financial institutions for the 2nd Ring Road. For facilitating quick transfer and handing over of Government lands and for acceleration of land acquisition and other processes, a committee comprising district Collectors of Medak and Rangareddy districts, the VC and MD HUDA, Principal Secretaries, Municipal Administration and Urban Development and Revenue is to be constituted.

The Traffic and Transportation Cell at HUDA would be revived to oversee preparation and implementation of master plans to decongest Hyderabad and surrounding municipalities by covering all modes of transport including the Multi Modal Transport System (MMTS) and rain networks inside HUDA area. The Sanatnagar - Moula Ali by-pass for MMTS would also be taken up, connecting Uppal, Malkajgiri, Kapra, Alwal, Qutbullapur and Kukatpalli municipalities and Secunderabad Cantonment.

The Chief Minister also reviewed works pertaining to the Green Hyderabad Environment Project, projection of lakes, Buddha Poornima Project, Hussainsagar Lake Development, the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and the bank's loan. The entire area around the Hussainsagar would be brought under one umbrella for speedy implementation and maintenance of developmental activities. The JBIC is said to have proposed funding for the Hussainsagar Restoration Project for which part of the land abutting the lake on Minister Road, was proposed to be handed over to HUDA. Five separate Effluent Treatment Plants along the Musi river have also been proposed.


Road project nears execution stage

By Our Staff Reporter



HYDERABAD, SEPT. 23. The Outer Ring Road, planned to decentralise core activities confined to the city and thereby decongest the city roads, is inching towards execution stage with the State Government's formal approval to the project.

Ambitious plans


There are also ambitious plans to develop 22 townships structured around the Outer Ring Road for metropolitan expansion and decongesting the city.

The original proposal of 108 km ORR has been revised to 159 km as the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority preferred to go for entirely new alignments as it had experienced the problematic process of widening existing roads with the Inner Ring Road.

Of the 52-km Inner Ring Road, the 27-km road passed through the Municipal Corporation area and the road in MCH limits could not be extended so far to the proposed 150 ft except on some stretches like Hyderabad Public School in Begumpet. The remaining 25-km stretch from Uppal to Attapur is however of 150 ft wide and the travel time is faster, the sources say.

Though the notification for the first phase of ORR from Gacchibowli to Shamshabad where the New International Airport would come up has been issued last month, the HUDA authorities are reluctant to spell out any date for the commencement of the work. "It would be for the Government to decide on the date," they add.

The phases


The second phase would be from Shamshabad to Hayatnagar, third phase from Hayatnagar to Shamirpet and fourth phase from Shamirpet to Patancheru and back to Gachibowli. The total project would require 9,000 acres but most of it would be Government land.

The HUDA Vice-Chairman, G. Ashok Kumar, says that the notification has to be followed up by land acquisition for the 29 km first phase of ORR. "These things are still in preliminary stages. There is more work to go including the detailed project report which is under process for the Rs.1,360-crore project including the cost of land acquisition".

The Central Government agreed in principle to bear 50 per cent of project cost while the remaining funds would be raised through bank loans. "The funding pattern and repayment mode are still being worked out".

Once the ORR is in place, most of the inter-city through traffic via NH.7 and 9 and Warangal Highway, comprising trucks and heavy vehicles would by-pass the city. There are also proposals to develop highway-related facilities like truck terminal, freight container yards, cold storage units and `Break- bulk' facilities.

The ORR covering areas around the city would facilitate reaching the International Airport from any point within one hour and it would be of 250 ft with 8 lanes with 50 ft left on either side for the future rail lines. The townships would be planned in such a way that they would not follow the `Ribbon development' but be away at least one km away from the ORR and would be connected to it through approach roads, the VC says.

New Hyderabad International Airport construction to start soon

Hyderabad: With some major hurdlesremoved from the way of the new international airport at Shamshabad, the consturction work is expected to begin soon.

The process of land acquisition has been completed, something which was stalling the project for quite sometime. A public interest litigation (PIL) filed by some environmentalists too had acted as a dampener. The environmentalists were against the construction of the airport, which they claimed would pollute Himayatsagar, one of the drinking water sources for the city.

In December 2003, Supreme Court rejected the PIL saying that the airport would not pose any pollution threat to the water body.

After the environmental issue, the government also solved the problems regarding compensation of the aggrieved land owners. "We have acquired 5,4440 acre of land in the proposed site for the International Airport. The land will be formally handed over to GMR Infrastructure, which bagged the airport project, "said additional secretary to the government (transport roads and buildings department).

The construction of the first phase of the project costing nearly Rs. 1,160 cr is excepted to begin in a few months' time, probably by October 2004. But according to officials everything depends upon how fast funds, are arranged.

As per the initial plans, the first phase of the project with an annual passenger handling capacity of 10 million was scheduled to be over by 2006. But due to certain policy decisions of the central government, the GMR infrastructure downgraded the annual passenger handling capacity to 5 million.


GOVT FINALISES DEVELOPER FOR SHAMSHABAD AIRPORT

Hyderabad: After a long drawn process the State government has finalised the developer for the International Airport at Shamshabad on the city outskirts. The airport will be ready in about 6 Years.

The bid for constructing the Airport has gone in favour of GMR Vasavi Infrastructure Limited (India) jointly with Malaysian Airports Holdings Barhard (MAHB). The developer has already paid Rs 40 crores to the government as the security deposit.

"All formalities have been completed. The required 2,000 acres of land has also been acquired for developing the airport," aviation advisor to the State government Capt. SN Reddy told The Times Of India on Tuesday.

The airport project was initiated in 1999 and seven firms were shortlisted for participating in the final bid.

Subsequently, the bidders were narrowed down to M/S Zurich Airport along with Siemens (Germany) and L&T India, and M/s GMR Vasavi Bangalore, and Malaysian Airport Holdings Barhard. Finally the latter was chosen. Tata Economic Consultants Mumbai, and its foreign partner, Speed Wing, a division of British Airways, were appointed consultants for assisting the state government in picking up the developer for the future venture.

Reddy said the MAHB was chosen because of its good track record in airport construction and also it was the lowest bidder. A team of officials from the State and Central governments also visited Malaysia a couple of months ago to see the airport constructed by the MAHB there.

The first phase of the green field airport project will cost Rs 1,100 crores. Work on the project may, however, not start immediately as MAHB has sought some consessions from the government.

MAHB has asked the government to provide infrastructure facilities such as electricity lines, water connection and roads up to the airport site whereas the government has said it will provide these facilities only up to the periphery or the compound wall of the airport.

To sort out these issues, the district-level negotiation committee will meet on Wednesday.

Once the international airport takes shape, there is a proposal to close down the Rajiv Gandhi International airport at Begumpet.


AIRPORT WORK MAY START IN SEPT '04

Hyderabad: The construction work of the New International Airport planned at Shamshabad in Rangareddy district is expected to commence around September next year and efforts are being made to complete it withing a time-frame of 24 months.

Since alll the litigations pertaining to the airport have been resolved, the government will be filing a caveat in the Supreme Court shortly to avoid any further legal hurdles to the smooth take-off the airport work.

The GMR-MAHB consortium, the developer of the airport, is likely to go for financial closure in about six months time, highly placed government sources told The Time of India.

The new airport is being developed as a joint venture with equity participation by the state and Centre together holding about 26 percent while the private developer will hold 74 percent stakes. The MAHB, a Malaysian based company, is currently managing and operating about 38 commercial airports in that country including five major international airports.

The total cost of the project is around Rs. 1,047 crore including cost of land and other infrastructure.

Officials are confident that the complete work would be over within 24 months of its comencement and the work is expected to begin in September next year. They expect the airport to become fully operational by the end of 2006.

The major work, it is said, would be contructio of runways and buildings.

WOW!

Looks like we may soon have quite a few quality airports in the country.

WOW!

Looks like we may soon have quite a few quality airports in the country.

Suncity....Depends how look at this new Hyd airport. It was suppose to be completed by 2005 when it was launched in 2000 by Naidu. Thanks to Environmentalist & other public litigations its 2004. Another bad thing is Phase I is reduced from 10 million to 5 Million passengers. Thats half. But never mind. The silver lining in all this is the original plan is intact. In 10 yrs this new airport is to handle traffic of 40 Million with 5000 Acres. Latest news is govt actually aquired 5440!! acres of land. maybe not in 10 yrs but in 15 yrs we will see a 40 Million passenger Airport with massive parking & huge greenfield. Something like this is what the country needs.

Suncity....Depends how look at this new Hyd airport. It was suppose to be completed by 2005 when it was launched in 2000 by Naidu. Thanks to Environmentalist & other public litigations its 2004. Another bad thing is Phase I is reduced from 10 million to 5 Million passengers. Thats half. But never mind. The silver lining in all this is the original plan is intact. In 10 yrs this new airport is to handle traffic of 40 Million with 5000 Acres. Latest news is govt actually aquired 5440!! acres of land. maybe not in 10 yrs but in 15 yrs we will see a 40 Million passenger Airport with massive parking & huge greenfield. Something like this is what the country needs.


I think that the land aquisition part is a very big step forward. Most of our projects get delayed by endless litigation over land and environment.

I have heard that the current RGI in HYD is a pretty good airport.

I think that the land aquisition part is a very big step forward. Most of our projects get delayed by endless litigation over land and environment.

I have heard that the current RGI in HYD is a pretty good airport.

Yeah. RGI is a very good airport. 3 yrs ago they expanded with NTR terminal which is state-of-the-art. But again. Hyderabad air traffic is nowhere close to Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta. I think this is the main reason for RGI airport to be ranked so high. Less traffic means better administered airport. Now that Hyd is sitting on major air traffic boom. RGI will have the same faith as Sahar, IG airport unless you built a new one. As far as present, No one that I know has complained about RGI. They all say its a very good airport.

Yeah. RGI is a very good airport. 3 yrs ago they expanded with NTR terminal which is state-of-the-art. But again. Hyderabad air traffic is nowhere close to Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta. I think this is the main reason for RGI airport to be ranked so high. Less traffic means better administered airport. Now that Hyd is sitting on major air traffic boom. RGI will have the same faith as Sahar, IG airport unless you built a new one. As far as present, No one that I know has complained about RGI. They all say its a very good airport.

Yes, all my friends from Hyderabad say that the airport is good and Chandrababu has really done some great work for the city. Looks like the new CM is also very active. That's good for AP and Hyderabad.

Also Kolkata has slipped to fifth position and may soon be overtaken by Hyderabad. However the airport traffic is growing at Kolkata at a pretty good rate (in some months above 20%) but its growing faster in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

Here are the airport traffic stats for the month of April 2004 (In lakhs i.e 100,000s)

Mumbai 11.61
Delhi 9.29
Chennai 4.04
Bangalore 3.70
Kolkata 2.62
Hyderabad 1.93
Goa 1.01
Trivandrum 0.91
Ahmedabad 0.87
Guwahati 0.44


After April 2004, they have stopped giving breakup of numbers in the above format.

But on the average passenger traffic has been increasing at around 25% compared to same month of previous year.

Suncity.....Mumbai, Delhi figures are quite alarming. Thats way too much traffic for small airports. Chennai is a big surprise. It has more than twice of Hyd & more than B'lore air traffic. Yep, Calcutta is slipping for a major metro. Ahmedabad below Goa & Trivandrum is a real shocker.

this sounds like an interesting development.. (let's hope it doesn't get any more delayed) most of India's airports are in a pretty sorry state at the moment. i think they should do something in Mumbai and Delhi now, because they're at/above capacity at the moment.

F1 makes way for IT parks

Hyderabad, Sept. 26: Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy has decided to convert the proposed F1 track into a cyber highway, making at least 1,000 acre available for IT giants and developers of IT parks. The Chief Minister directed State officials to re-demarcate the 1,000 acre near Gachibowli to develop IT parks. It appears the Congress government will be as generous as the Telugu Desam regime and give away hundreds of acres of land to IT companies.

Official sources said the AP Industrial Infrastructure Corp-oration had asked the Ranga Reddy District Collector to issue notification demarcating land in Vattinagulapalli village for the IT parks. “Besides individual IT companies, reputed developers of IT parks have evinced keen interest in developing IT infrastructure and attract companies from across the globe,” a senior Industries Department official told Chronicle.

DLF, which developed the IT park in Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi, Raheja Constructions, which was already allotted 110 acre near Hi-Tec City, RMZ, owned by the family of Rahejas, L&T and Prestigo, a construction giant involved in developing IT parks in Bangalore approached the State government for land. While Wipro sought an additional 50 acre, IT giant Computer Associates and other companies also requested for land.

The government hitherto used to directly invite top IT companies to set shop in the State. “Now we want to create a parallel network of developers that takes up responsibility of creating infrastructure and attracting the firms,” the official said. The developers will deposit the value of the land with the government, which they will forfeit in the event of failure to create the mandatory 330 jobs per acre.

Sources also said Computer Associates, one of the leading IT firms, was impressed with the government’s response to inquiries it had made and conveyed its willingness to set its unit in the proposed IT park. “Company vice-president James Paranski, who was here last week, was so impressed with our facilities that he is holding a press conference in New York on September 29 to recommend Hyderabad as the IT destination,” a senior APIIC official said.

So it has finally happened. F1, the dream project of roping in car racing by Former CM Naidu to Hyderabad is finally & officially dropped by new CM & now this 1000 acres!!! of land will be converted into IT parks. I in first place never wanted F1 to be in Hyderabad. MUMBAI is the perfect place for F1. & now Mumbai automatically is a front runner for Indian F1 tracks. I am all for it. Indian city of 17 million will finally have a world class sport & will easily fill 150,000 seats in F1 stadium day in day out without any trouble. & Mumbai will develop much much faster now because F1 has some serious requirement such as super expressways to the stadium & a state-of-the-art Hospital with Helipad. All aboard, to the Mumbai we go :) :) :) .

Hindustani are you sure about Mumbai being the next choice?

because news reports say that the second choice was Bangalore.

Where Next? (http://www.itv-f1.com/WhereNext.aspx?type=WHERE_NEXT&PO_ID=18923)

Andhra Pradesh is not the only state in India that would like to land a Grand Prix. There is also competition from both Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Mahashtra is the biggest of the three states boasting a population of 90m, centred on the city of Mumbai (Bombay), while Karnataka has 50m people and wants a race in Bangalore.

Track designer Herman Tilke chose three potential sites close to Bangalore, where a convention centre and five-star hotel will be built as well as the racetrack as part of the consortium's plans.

Tilke was most impressed by Bangalore and its climate finding it cooler than Hyderabad for racing.



Yeah, too bad for AP, but thats the way democracy goes in India.
Bangalore is having too many things at once. i doubt the city's ability to cope with it. Its not that because its Bangalore, i think any city worth its name will be bogged down by massive changes taking place not in terms of years but months and even days.

Mumbai makes a strong case because thats where the money is.

If India's gonna host F1, it should be soon! Bernie Ecclestone is very keen in attracting more viewers. He loved the idea of a Chinese GP because of its huge population. India is also a good idea. but in an F1 viewers point of view (im a big fan), Tilke tracks are boring, with only the location varying among his latest circuits

New Hyderabad International Airport ready in 2007

BY B.K. SIDHU IN MADRID
THE new Hyderabad International Airport (HIA), in which Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd has 11% stake, is expected to be completed in 2007.

Managing director Kiran K. Grandhi said the company, Hyderabab International Airport Ltd, was spending US$300mil to build the first phase of the airport to cater to a maximum five million passengers a year.

With a landbank of 5,500 acres, the airport could be further expanded to cater to 40 million passengers. The current airport can handle up to three million.

“We want HIA to be the aviation hub in India for cargo and passengers as it is centrally located, offering travel time of only two hours to any other city in India. Unlike other airports in India, HIA does not have visibility problems,” he said.

The funding for the first phase is via debt (60%) and equity (40%). When completed, the airport can boast of having the longest runaway in India – 4,260 metres.

The existing airport is government-owned, but the new one will be privately owned. GMR is the major shareholder in HIA with 63% stake, while the Airport Authority of India and the state government of Andresh Pradesh have 13% each.

GMR is also bidding to manage the Mumbai and New Dehli airports in partnership with Frankfurt airport. Several international players are bidding for airports in India that are being privatised.

Meanwhile, Air New Zealand has shown keen interest in flying into Malaysia, but was unlikely to do so in the immediate term due to the prevailing high oil prices.

“We are evaluating market opportunities, and although we believe there is enough traffic at KLIA, it is an issue of yields,” said Air New Zealand network analysis manager (market planning) Pete Yap.

“For now the yields are too low; but with higher fuel efficiency it would be possible. But we do not see it happening over the next two years. The planning is long-term.”

Air New Zealand was among 250 airlines that attended the 10th World Route Development Forum held in Madrid.

Yap cited increased competition in the South-East Asia market, the rising number of low-cost carriers being a factor Air New Zealand would have to study before flying to any stop in the region.

Nonetheless, he sees the entire region as offering a lot of traffic volume.

Hainan Airlines said it would increase frequency into KLIA if demand rose. It begins its maiden weekly flight into KLIA today.

Some more Hi Tec City, Hyderabad Images.

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Wow, this is amazing, I defiinetly think Mumbai should have a track, becasue that is is the most modern city in India, and F1 is liked mostly by the modernized people.

I guess Bangalore should have it. I think Mumbai doesen't have enough space to build a F-1 track.

Microsoft's Hyderabad centre to be largest outside US

BS Regional Bureau in Hyderabad | October 04, 2004


The decks have been cleared for the establishment of Microsoft Corporation's first ever permanent development centre in India with the Rajasekhara Reddy government today deciding to honour in toto the agreement inked by the previous regime with the global software giant, with respect to the provision of land and other facilities in Hyderabad.

Microsoft, which started its development centre in Hitec City in 1999, plans to set up a permanent development facility in a sprawling 42.25-acre land near Hitec City. In fact, the proposed permanent development centre is the corporation's biggest facility outside the US and the first one in the country.

The centre, to be set up with an investment of Rs 50 crore (Rs 500 million), promises to provide employment to over 2,000 software professionals in a period of seven years.

The state cabinet, which met here today, has approved the remaining clearances with regards to agreement on the proposed development centre concluded in 2003. The entire land would be transferred to the company by the government at a price of Rs 50 lakh (Rs 5 million) with all the concessional provisions, the Mohammed Ali Shabbir information and public relations minister told the media.

The concessions offered to the Microsoft centre include Rs 20,000 rebate on each job created, reimbursement of 50 per cent of stamp duty on the first transaction and all the infrastructural facilities at the doorsteps that includes the laying of the road connecting the development centre with the Old Bombay highway.

The road alone will cost the government about Rs 15 crore (Rs 150 million) that includes the cost of land acquisition, around Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million) on power lines, about Rs 50 lakh (Rs 5 million) on drainage facilities among others.

Later speaking to the media, chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy clarified that there was no condition put forward to Microsoft or to any other software company on making it compulsory to provide employment to only locals.

"We have only requested them to provide employment to the locals and that is it," he said while replying to a query

Qualcomm Inc opens its R&D centre in Hyderabad

OUR EFE BUREAU
Posted online: Saturday, October 02, 2004 at 0000 hours IST

HYDERABAD, OCT 1: The world leader in Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and digital wireless technologies, Qualcomm Inc, has launched its research and development centre (R&D) in Hyderabad on Friday. The centre is part of the company’s efforts to enhance its worldwide engineering workforce.



Sanjay K Jha, executive V-P of Qualcomm Inc and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), said the Hyderabad R&D centre would support CDMA chipset development activities and ongoing efforts to advance CDMA wireless technology in India and across the region. The R&D centre will work on developing softwares, digital signal processing (DS) firmware and hardware development, design, testing and technical customer support.

Merging all Hyderabad related posts into one thread.

DWTC, Government of Andhra Pradesh renew commitment to GITEX Hyderabad


The Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) and the Government of Andhra Pradesh (India) yesterday (October 5th) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to underline their continued support and commitment for GITEX Hyderabad, the IT and Communications Mega event to be held from January 12 to 14, at the HITEX International Exhibition Centre in Hyderabad.

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Left Helal Saeed Khalfan Al Marr, Director General, Dubai World Trade Centre and right Dr. J. C. Mohanty, Principal Secretary, IT and C Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Speaking on behalf of the organisers, Director General, Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), Helal Saeed Khalfan Al Marri said, 'Over the years the Gitex brand has become synonymous with Information Technology and Communication. Gitex Hyderabad was launched in 2002 to serve the huge and rapidly growing Indian market. The event has now become an excellent business platform for companies to display latest technologies and launch new products and services.

'The success of Gitex Hyderabad is largely due to the active support and encouragement given to us by the Government of Andhra Pradesh and to the huge response from the Indian and international ICT community. We are confident that the 2005 show will continue to increase in size and scale and provide an effective B2B stage for the IT&C industry confirming Hyderabad's status as the land of e-opportunities,' Mr. Al Marri added.

Dr. J. C. Mohanty, Principal Secretary, IT and C Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh said, 'India and Andhra Pradesh, are persistently working towards increasing the global profile and fuelling the continued growth and expansion of the ICT sector. Several new Government initiatives aimed at stimulating international interest in the region's ICT sector have been put in place, which will offer tremendous business opportunities. Gitex Hyderabad is an ideal platform to showcase the opportunities in the India region.

'The state of Andhra Pradesh, with a combination of high-quality infrastructure, excellent human resources, business friendly policies and a pro-active Government is the most preferred IT destinations in India.'

GITEX Hyderabad 2004 attracted over 6,300 visitors during the three days of the event held at the contemporary HITEX International Exhibition Centre, one of the most modern exhibition and convention venues in India. The figure represented an almost 40% increase over the 2003 edition of the show.

Several leading IT majors participated in the event including Microsoft, Reliance Infocomm, Satyam, Hindustan Lever Ltd., Vanenberg Asia, HSBC, ADP Wilco, Iomega, STPI, HYSEA, L&T Infocity, BSNL, ELCOT, Tamil Nadu, Dubai Internet City, SAIF Zone, Sharjah, IT&C Department, Andhra Pradesh and DIT Karnataka among others.

Another unique feature about the show last year was the staging of the Second Asia IT Ministers Summit Meet and IT Industry Forum concurrently. This attracted keen interest with IT Ministers and government and business delegations from over 24 countries attending.

Queens Plaza Mall, Hyderabad

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Babu Khan Mall, Hyderabad

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City Centre, Hyderabad

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hey nice pictures if the citycenter.:)
Do you know when it is ready?

hey nice pictures if the citycenter.:)
Do you know when it is ready?

City centre has been in the news for a while. It should be up & runing now.

New Singapore IT park inaugurated in Hyderabad
By Indo-Asian News Service

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"Cyber Pearl" u/c & inauguration image. Hi Tec City Phase III.


Hyderabad, Oct 13 (IANS) International real estate firm Ascendas and its Indian partner L&T Infocity inaugurated a multi-storey IT complex here Wednesday.

Built over six acres, the seven-storey building will provide 270,000 square feet of business space to firms for IT, ITES, BPO and call centre operations.

An additional 250,000 feet is under construction under the Rs.1.2 billion ($27 million) project, located in Hitec City area on the outskirts of the Andhra Pradesh capital.

Already, 80 percent of the complex has been taken up by multinationals, including HSBC and US-based Market Tools, and local IT companies like Nipuna and Keane India.

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Singapore minister Lim Boon Heng were present at the inauguration of the complex, named Cyber Pearl.

Speaking on the occasion, the chief minister said he was glad to see that Singapore-based Ascendas had chosen Hyderabad and L&T as its partner.

The park is Ascendas's first venture in Hyderabad and its third in India. The other two are in Bangalore and Gurgaon, Haryana.


Google launches operations in Hyderabad and Bangalore

OUR CORPORATE BUREAU
Posted online: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 0000 hours IST

HYDERABAD: Search engine major Google has announced the launch of its Indian operations in Hyderabad and Bangalore. Though both the centres have been active for quite few months without much pampering, the founders of Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin - officially announced the launch of Indian operations in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

In an interactive session with select mediapersons here on Tuesday, both Messers Brin and Page said that Indian operations would be strategic for Google’s worldwide growth. “We are excited and satisfied to see that Indian operations in the long-run will play a pivotal role for the worldwide growth of the company,” said Mr Brin. Both the founders met the President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam in New Delhi on Monday. “Google chose India due to its large, well-educated, technology-literate, English-speaking population, competitive economic environment and sound infrastructure,” Mr Brin said. “Though the company has a small team each in Hyderabad and Bangalore, both the centres will see growth in manpower and infrastructure over a period of time,” said Mr Page.

“There is an enourmous potential in India for the company to recruit the best and brightest people,” he said further.

According to Mr Brin, the Hyderabad centre will be home to engineering, online sales and operations, and human resource functions. “The Hyderabad operations will support the Google’s AdWords advertisers and AdSense publishers throughout the world with seamless online sales, service and support in their local time,” Mr Brin said.

While refusing to disclose the exact manpower as well as the investments, Mr Page said: “We are committed to grow faster in India and we see that there is a huge potential for the Indian operations to serve the worldwide advertisers in 100 different languages by developing new products and search engines to advertise online,” he added.

“After the US and the Europe, Google sees India as the next big country for the company’s overall growth in the years to come,” both the founders said.

Explaining the R&D facility in Bangalore, Mr Brin said that the centre will do research on new search engines, products on e-mail, online advertising, in addition to sales and marketing products. “We expect that the Bangalore centre will also be expanded in a big way in due course of time,” he added. To a question, Mr Page said that the company is currently test marketing the potential of G-mail, which provides huge space to store contents and data.

Cyber Pearl (Hi Tec City, Phase III) (http://www.ltial.co.in/html/cyber-pearl.htm)

Cyber Pearl (Hi Tec City, Phase III), Hyderabad Fact file. (http://www.ascendas.com/bss/Cyber%20Pearl%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf)


HUDA to restore five more lakes

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, OCT.13. The Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA), which had restored the three highly-polluted lakes under the Lake Conservation Programme of Green Hyderabad Environment Project, is all set to restore five more lakes by March next year.

Sewage treatment plants


Of the 18 highly-polluted lakes identified in the metropolitan region, HUDA had restored and beautified Saroornagar, Safilguda and Langer Houz lakes and commissioned sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the last two years for treating sewage before letting it into the lakes.

Work is on to restore Pedda cheruvu, Nalla cheruvu, Patel cheruvu, Miralam tank and Durgam cheruvu by March next at a cost of Rs. 44 crores. "Though all the lakes with the exception of Miralam tank has some issue or the other, we are able to proceed with the work by educating and convincing the local people that restoration of lakes was essential for recharging of good quality ground water," the officials said. The common issue however is the tricky `sheekam pattas', believed to have been given ages ago to enable the locals to cultivate land when the water receded. For instance, those who had purchased the plots years ago near Pedda cheruvu argued that their plots were never situated on the lake bed area and the problem had cropped up due to construction of bunds in the downstream areas of the lake.

The lakes which had been reduced to sewage pools with effluents and domestic sewage directly let into them, had become cause for unhygienic conditions and contamination of ground water.

Work begins

A majority of the residents in the vicinity of lakes however were for the restoration and beautification of lakes at the earliest, the officials said.While sites for STPs for the five lakes had been acquired, work had started on 10 mld and 5 mld STPs of Miralam tank and Durgam cheruvu respectively. The work on STPs of remaining three lakes would commence shortly. Meanwhile, preparatory work for the remaining 10 highly-polluted lakes is on while priority is being given for Rangadhamani, Yellamma Cheruvu (Kukatpally), Hasmathpet in Alwal and Suddalavani bordering Municipal Corporation and Kukatpally Municipality.

AP Secretariat D Block expansion, Hyderabad.

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Dream Valley Resorts, Hyderabad

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Amsri Classic, Hyderabad
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Madhucon Corporate Office, Hyderabad
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Sujatha Public School, Hyderabad

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upcoming Singapore township, Hyderabad

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Amsri Residency, Hyderabad

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Suryodaya, Hyderabad

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SUHANA DEVELOPMENTS, Hyderabad (25 km outskirts)

Suhana City, Hyderabad

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Suhana Film nagar, Hyderabad (next to Ramoji film studios)

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Suhana Chicago farms & Resort, Hyderabad

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Suhana Estates, Hyderabad

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Suhana Lakview, Hyderabad

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SINGAPORE TOWNSHIP, Hyderabad

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Singapore-style township in Hyderabad
By P.N.V. Nair

The Andhra Pradesh government's dream project of a Singapore-style township planned as a space-saving and self-contained model housing colony at Pocharam, 18 km from Hyderabad, in Ghatkesar mandal in Ranga Reddy district, is all set for execution from June.

The colony, the first of its kind in the state, having a cluster of one-plus 12-storey and one-plus four-storey apartments, each with two-bedroom and three-bedroom flats, will be ready within 18 months. The CESMA International Pvt. Ltd, a subsidiary of the Singapore government's housing agency, will be implementing the project for the AP government. The project would cost an expenditure of Rs 150 crore.


CESMA has charged Rs 183.88 lakh for doing the master planning and for architectural services for the 1,600 flats planned under the first phase on a 50-acre site. The company will shortly sign another agreement for executing the project, treating this as a joint venture with the state government. Another 723 acres of land belonging to the AP Housing Board would be utilised in the subsequent phases.

According to the details given by a team of CESMA, a three-bedroom unit would cost Rs 9 lakh and a two-bedroom unit Rs 7 lakh. The allottees, who were already identified through a set procedure, would be issued the design-architecture sheets. What makes the township different from that being implemented by the local builders here? The Singapore officials explained that there would be efficient use of the available space and the super structure and infrastructure would be constructed employing the most modern technology.


DV TOWNSHIP, Hyderabad

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I've just realized that the Hafeez Contractor website has updated information on the Obelisk project, moving it from a concept drawing to a residential(!) project in Hyderabad. It must mean the prelimiary approvals have been given. I'm really digging the design


A little animation I quickly put together from his renderings:

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-Jai

I've just realized that the Hafeez Contractor website has updated information on the Obelisk project, moving it from a concept drawing to a residential(!) project in Hyderabad. It must mean the prelimiary approvals have been given. I'm really digging the design


A little animation I quickly put together from his renderings:

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-Jai

Jai bhai...............I wonder where its coming up. Besides I still dont believe its coming up in Hyderabad till construction is well underway. This 60 story skyscraper has not been in the news for a while now.

Janapriya Constructions, Hyderabad

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Hyderabad Outer Ring Road:Two-Year Deadline

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2004 02:06:56 AM ]

HYDERABAD: The 148-km long Outer Ring Road (ORR) that provides a circular route to the city will be a reality in next two years, with the government deciding to speed up acquiring land for the road.

The state government is expected to appoint an IAS officer to acquire land for the ORR in a timebound programme.

The ORR project figured in the Tuesday’s board meeting of the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (Huda), which is named the nodal agency for the ORR project. It was also decided that the land acquisition should be completed within a month after the appointment of the special officer.

According to Huda chairman D Sudheer Reddy, the authority would foresee no problems in acquiring the land. "The Huda will work on the policy of pay-quick-and-get-quick basis," he told The Times of India.

Reddy said the ORR is a priority job for the Huda and hence the board has decided to expedite the project. Huda has already acquired about 2,500 acres of land covering the length of up to 28 km under phase-I between Gachibowli and Shamshabad.

Chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy during a recent meeting with top officials of the civic bodies also gave a nod to the Huda proposal to seek additional staff to take up land acquisition works.

The outer ring road project will cost Rs 1,315 crore. The objective behind the project is to prevent traffic problems in the city by providing alternate routes, besides developing the surrounding villages.

For this project, the Huda needs to acquire 9,875 acres of land. Under phase-I of the four-phased project the Huda needs to cover the length of 44 km.

Along with an IAS officer the government has also decided to appoint seven senior officials from revenue department to intensify the land acquisition works. The Huda asked the government for more staff and was expecting positive response from the government, Sudheer said.


Japanese team visits HUDA

By Our Staff Reporter



HYDERABAD, OCT. 26. A two-member high-level team of the Japanese Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC) held discussions with officials of the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) regarding the Hussain Sagar Lake Restoration project on Tuesday.

The team, comprising Sector Strategies Director-General, Hiroo ITO and Sector Strategies Director, Atsushi Kaneko, was apprised of the status of polluted water of the lake and its surroundings and the measures proposed for improvement of the lake and its catchment area.

The team later visited Picket nala, Kukatpally nala, Prakash Nagar, Island Park and Necklace Road. It also visited the sewerage treatment plant near Khairatabad bridge and the Langer House Lake and inspected the dredging works near Sanjeevaiah Park.

Project cost


The project was estimated to cost Rs. 316 crores, and the JBIC, in principle, had agreed to give a soft loan of Rs. 270 crores. The JBIC additional fact-finding mission visited the city in September to finalise the project strategy.

SINGAPORE TOWNSHIP, Hyderabad

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Cool project!

Cool project!

Kshatriya.......................This Singapore township project was started way back in 2002. Should be ready now. Just coudn't find the images.

Kshatriya.......................This Singapore township project was started way back in 2002. Should be ready now. Just coudn't find the images.
Uh-oh, just hope it hasn't run into trouble or been shelved...

Govt plans to set up 3 more IT parks in Hyderabad (http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu2&leftindx=2&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=171332)

The Andhra Pradesh government is planning to develop three more information technology (IT) parks in an area of 500 acres at Gachibowli on the outskirts of Hyderabad.

According to the chief minister, each of the three IT parks would be developed in an area of 100 to 125 acres. He said that the works would be awarded to the builders and contractors in a transparent process while the prequalification bids would be finalised by November 15.

Andhra Pradesh launches third phase of Hitec City

Andhra Pradesh launches third phase of Hitec City A late starter, AP wants to be the country’s leading BPO destination

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Cyber Pearl Hitec City


Cyber Pearl, the third phase of the Hitec City project in Hyderabad was inaugurated by Andhra Pradesh chief mininster Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. It is the first project by LTIAL, a joint venture between L&T Infocity and Singapore-based business space provider Ascendas. The first two phases were the Cyber Towers and Cyber Gateway projects.

Cyber Pearl is Ascendas’ first venture in Hyderabad, and it’s third in India after the International Tech Park Bangalore, its flagship project in Karnataka, and the Gurgaon Tech Park in Haryana. Currently, Ascendas is developing its fourth project, the International Tech Park at Chennai.

The new facility is 80 percent occupied with HSBC, Keane India, Nipuna and the US-based Market Tools taking up 2.7 lakh sqft of space.

“The expansion of Cyber Pearl would be completed by early 2005. L&T and Ascendas are planning to take up other infrastructure projects such as airports, roads, buildings and townships,” Chong Saik Ching, president and CEO, Ascendas, said.

The engineering, construction and contracts (ECC) division of L&T has bagged another major contract from HSBC. The new project is a build-to-suit mega project for the HSBC group’s data processing centre in Hyderabad. L&T has already developed an IT park for HSBC in Visakhapatnam in the State.

Talking about the new project, A Ramakrishna, president of L&T (ECC) said, “The new project will be developed near Cyber Pearl in Hitec City and is expected to be completed within 12 months. As part of this, the company will construct two buildings with a total space of 8 lakh sqft and an investment of Rs 200 crore.”

The chief minister said that the state government is planning to set up a separate promotional agency for single-window clearance of mega infrastructure projects. The state government has decided to develop 22 new townships along the 8-lane 16 km super ring road around the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secuderabad. The single-window process agency will streamline the clearances for infrastructure projects and work as a facilitator to all investments in the state.

“As per our estimates, there is a demand for 30 million sqft of office space over next four years. To meet this demand, we need to take up new projects and for this we are inviting global players. Singapore should share its experience, technology and invest in the state,” he said.

http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20041108/market05.shtml

The International air hub by Air Sahara at Hyderabad is big news!

The International air hub by Air Sahara at Hyderabad is big news!

yeap sure is:)

Air Sahara launches International Hub :

Hyderabad, Nov 5 : Air Sahara, one of India's leading players in domestic aviation, today launched an International Hub at Hyderabad, the first in the country.

"Hub Hyderabad" would connect it to other Indian cities and international destinations, President of the airlines Ronojoy Dutta told newspersons at the launch ceremony here.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who was the Chief guest, announced a number of incentives for the aviation industry, including rebate on sales tax on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) on slab system to attract more and more airlines to have such operations.

The state government is providing pro-active support for a new world class international Airport, which will come up soon at Shamshabad, near here, he added.

Datta said that in the first phase, Air Sahara would operate 126 flights per week from Hub Hyderabad and would connect it to domestic cities - Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Cochin, Bangalore, Chennai, Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata, Coimbatore and Lucknow.

The additional service is being opened for sale from today and service will commence on February three, 2005, Dutta said.

He said Air Sahara's fleet today includes new generation Boeing 737-700, 737-800 and 737-400 aircraft.

The fleet also includes four helicopters, which provide chartered services between Delhi and Mumbai. Air Sahara currently flies to 22 destinations in India. PTI

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International airport to become operational by 2008, says CM (http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu2&leftindx=2&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=171876)

The Rs 1,400-crore international airport at Shamshabad is likely to become operational by 2008. Chief minister, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, said that within the next ten days the concessional agreement would be signed.

“The financial closure will take about three months and after about 33 months the airport will become functional,” he added.

The airport is to be developed under a joint venture with 26 per cent equity participation by the state and the central governments. The GMR-MAHB consortium – the private developer of the project – would hold the remaining 74 per cent.

The airport would have an initial capacity of 50 lakh passengers and one lakh metric tonne of cargo handling facility.

About 3,367 acres of private land and 1,909 acres of government land have been acquired for developing the airport.

A 4,260-metre long and 60-metre wide runway is also being planned for the project.

kronik> thats good news!!

i bet 1000$ that the new Hyderabad international airport will be finished before Bangalore International Airport ;)

McGraw Hill to set up base in Hyderabad

Our Regional Bureau / Hyderabad November 06, 2004

The $4.8-billion McGraw Hill company has decided to set up its base in Hyderabad for its Indian operations.

Termed as the number one company among the top-10 business media power houses, McGraw Hill is planning to establish an IT enabled service (ITES) operation here by acquiring Capital IQ, a local ITES operator.

Deven Sharma, executive vice-president of McGraw Hill, and Cathleen A Corbet, president of Standard & Poor's, met chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Wednesday and explained their plans.

The chief minister has agreed in-principle on the proposal of McGraw Hill for establishing their ITES campus at Hyderabad and making it as their headquarters in India.

The chief minister has also assured to extend necessary cooperation from his government. The company has also expressed its interest to work in the education field with the government, a press release said.

kronik> thats good news!!

i bet 1000$ that the new Hyderabad international airport will be finished before Bangalore International Airport ;)

Inshallah Doc. The BIAL could have been a showcase of our infrastructural progress, but true to their skin, our netas made a mess of it.

and of course investors will not wait around forever and pay tons of grease money to get the ball rolling.

I don't know which airport will be completed first. But the Air Sahara hub, if it becomes operational, will boost Hyderabad's economy. Hyderabad is the most centrally located of the six metros. It's a good choice. And assuming Air Sahara is a hundred times better than Air India or Indian Airlines, the transiting at Hyderabad should be smooth.

Hyderabad scores over Bangalore in location. That's my view.

But Bangalore should not feel bad. It is Air Deccan's main base and if Air Deccan can get over its tech problems and succeed with its low cost model, then that would be a boost for Bangalore.

Uh-oh, just hope it hasn't run into trouble or been shelved...

They were still drafting agreements in June 2002 as per the APIND site.

As per a Singapore govt web site it will start handover from Dec 2004.

And in an interview in Sept 2004 APHB director says: "We wanted to move into an area where no one else has entered. At the moment we have enough in our hand with work on Singapore township at Pocharam and Malaysian township at Kukatpally underway."

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Inshallah Doc. The BIAL could have been a showcase of our infrastructural progress, but true to their skin, our netas made a mess of it.

and of course investors will not wait around forever and pay tons of grease money to get the ball rolling.

The previos Cong Govt in Karnataka said the BJP govt in the Centre does not want it to take caredit. Now, iboth are Congress. But there are reports of more delaying tactics becoz of politicians and beurocrats. It it it time public take these to task

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Raintree Park is an integrated Township spread over 37 acres of clear titled land and will be developed in two phases over a period of 3 years. The entire township will consist of thirteen 5-storey low-rise blocks, twelve 5-storey and seven 8 storey executive apartment blocks, six 8-storey and seven 10 storey luxury apartment blocks, seven 10-storey luxury duplex apartment blocks and a commercial cum office complex to cater to the wide needs of the residents.

Raintree Park is developed by Swarnandhra-IJMII Township Development Company Private Limited, a joint venture between the Andhra Pradesh Housing Board (APHB) and IJM (India) Infrastructure Limited (IJMII), a subsidiary of IJM Corporation Berhad, Malaysia.

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Location:

Raintree Park is located towards west of Hyderabad, off NH 9 (Bombay Highway) along the gazetted 150ft. road connecting Hitec City and Kukatpally. The site is approximately 16kms from Hyderabad, 1.5 kms southwest from Kukatpally junction and 3 kms northeast from Hitec City. The Hitec City Railway Station under the Multi Modal Transit System (MMTS) connecting all the important areas of Hyderabad and Secunderabad is within walking distance.

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Nice, they should really build taller though.

The government of Andhra Pradesh has christened the city 'Genome Valley.'

Hyderabad: India's Genome Valley

November 30, 2004
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"If Bangalore is the Silicon Valley, Hyderabad is the Genome Valley. India's future is in biotechnology," Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is excited as he makes a presentation on the biotech boom that is taking place in Hyderabad.

Truly, Dr Reddy has made a point.

Hyderabad has fast emerged as the biotech hub of India. The government of Andhra Pradesh has christened the city 'Genome Valley.'

"Genome Valley is our answer to the Silicon Valley of Bangalore. It is making waves not just in India, but across the world," an official assisting Dr Reddy in the biotechnology sector points out.

The figures that the chief minister's office provides are impressive. A journey later to the biotech clusters in and around Hyderabad testifies to the credentials of Genome Valley.

Genome Valley is India's first state-of-the-art biotech hub that provides research, training, collaboration and manufacturing activities for biotech companies. It is spread over 600 square kilometers. More than 100 biotech companies are operating out of the Genome Valley today.

"Yes, Hyderabad has already become India's biotech hub. It is our Genome Valley as several leading scientific research organizations and biotech companies are functioning from here," says Deepanwita Chattopadhyaya, Chief Executive Officer, ICICI Knowledge Park in Hyderabad.

The Park is situated in an aesthetically landscaped lush green 200-acre campus in Turkapally, near Hyderabad. It offers plots of land -- of varying sizes -- to build research centres and pilot plants as per specific requirements of resident companies.

But what did the Andhra Pradesh government do to identify that biotechnology was the engine of growth for the state to succeed?

First, some years ago, the government launched India's first biotech venture fund with a corpus of $30 million. It was a joint venture between the Andhra Pradesh Investment Development Corporation and Dynam Venture East of the US. The venture fund began to finance start-up biotech companies.

Soon, there was a rush from Indian and foreign companies to Hyderabad, making it Genome Vallaey. Some of these firms are:

Shapoorji Pallonji Biotech Park: The Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) project is spread over 400 acres. It provides state-of-the art infrastructure with support facilities like instrumentation facilities, incinerator, secondary effluent treatment plant, distilled, deionised DM water, cold storage and water housing facility, and animal house.

It has a technology incubation centre. A belt of 25 kilometers around the park has been declared as a 'pollution free zone.' The Park runs a pilot plant for the validation of the commercial viability of technologies and products.

ICICI Knowledge Park: It is a world-class centre for leading-edge, business-driven research in the country. The Park is also India's first knowledge network for collaboration between research. It is a 200-acre campus with world-class infrastructure and support facilities. It is promoted by the ICICI Group. It encourages research and development in all knowledge-intensive fields. The current focus of the Park is on the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals technology, specialty chemicals, new materials, information technology and telecommunications.

Biotechnology Incubation Centre: It runs research and development laboratories, multi-utility plant, specialised pilot plant and an analytical and quality control center.

Agri -Business Incubator of ICRISAT: The Agri-Business Incubator provides business support to existing and new agri-business, developed and housed at ICRISAT. The incubator helps in reducing the risk in commercialization of agri-technologies. It has built a network with R&D centers of excellence, universities, academic institutions and agricultural-related incubators and incubates globally.

Apart from these major parks, Genome Valley is home to the leading biotechnology institutions and private pharma companies.

The institutions include: Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Institute for Nutrition, and Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.

Top private biotech companies include: Avra Laboratories, Bharat Biotech International, Bijam Biosciences, Biological E. Ltd, Bioserve Biotechnologies, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Genotex International, GVK Bio, Indian Immunologicals Ltd, Indigene Pharmaceuticals, Jupiter Biosciences, Krebs Biochemicals, Microbiomed Products, Nuziveedu Seeds, Prabhat Agri Biotech, Satyam Computer Services, Shantha Biotechnics, Tata Consultancy Services and Vimta Labs.

Chief Minister Reddy says Genome Valley is forging ahead. "We have a well-defined policy to forge a private-public partnership in the development of biotechnology in the state," says Reddy.

The government's target, the chief minister says, is the large number of scientists from Andhra Pradesh, who are at present engaged in research, academics or manufacturing in the field of biotechnology in the US.

Officials say Genome Valley will leapfrog into the big league in the days to come.

The signs are showing in the projects that are in the pipeline:

An international life science institute is being set up in Hyderabad.

Indian Council of Medical Research is setting up a National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health of the US.

An Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Bank, a bio-medical research centre and a state-of-the art maternity/ neo-natal hospital are being set up by the Pacific Health Care Holdings, Singapore.

I think this is the official website http://www.genomevalley.org

ICICI Knowldege Park - http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com/

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SP Biotech Park http://www.spbiotechpark.com/

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Agri Science Park ICRISAT - http://www.agri-sciencepark-at-icrisat.org/

Emaar awards Larsen and Toubro AED 108m contract to build Hyderabad Convention Centre in India


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The 4,000-seating capacity Convention Centre will be India's largest and easily the most technologically advanced convention facility. It is an integrated 291,000sq.ft facility abutting with a 300-room business hotel on 15 acres of land. The air-conditioned Centre can be configured to increase seating capacity to about 6,500 and is equipped with several automated features to facilitate diverse utilisation, with all facilities and amenities that a world standard gathering would conceivably seek.

Emaar has engaged the Scottish firm RMJM as architects for the Convention Centre scheduled for completion in December 2005.

'Our decision in favour of Larsen & Toubro Limited for the Convention Centre was reached on the basis of price, proven abilities and experience in the execution of several complex and demanding real-estate development projects across India,' said Mohamed Ali Alabbar, Chairman, Emaar Properties. 'Emaar stringently applies international best practices on all its real estate developments and we are delighted that Larsen & Toubro have matched our expectations.

'When this Centre is considered in the context of expanded facilities for air and surface transportation, commercial, residential and hospitality, Hyderabad will truly develop to become the geographical and event-related hub for India,' Alabbar continued.

Alabbar was speaking to the media on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit, currently being held in New Delhi. A senior Emaar delegation had met with Tadao Chino, President of Asian Development Bank in Hyderabad recently and explained to him and his accompanying delegation how the Centre will develop.

Also being developed by Emaar is Boulder Hills, a world class leisure and residential community in Hyderabad. The total cost for both these prestigious projects is estimated at AED 492 million. These projects are being developed in partnership with Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Ltd (APIIC) an agency of the government of Andhra Pradesh.

"We are pleased with the cooperation and true sense of partnership from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, and this experience points to further and more expanded relationships in the state and elsewhere in the sub-continent. India is an important partner country for Emaar Properties and we are excited to be conducting serious business in a market that is going to develop into several multiples of what we see today,' he added.

Emaar has also commenced constructing Boulder Hills in Hyderabad. The world-class leisure and residential community features an 18-hole championship golf course, villas and apartments, and an exclusive 5+ star resort style hotel.

Larsen & Toubro Limited is India's largest engineering and construction conglomerate with additional interests in electricals, electronics, submarine pressure vessels, space vehicles, and IT. The company has a global spread of over 30 offices and has constructed many of India's prized landmarks.

Emaar globally recognised as the Middle East's biggest lifestyle property developers is the only UAE listed company to be featured on the Dow Jones Arabia Titans 50 stock Index. The 7-year old company reported an impressive AED 1.039 billion in profits for the period ended 30 September 2004, compared to AED 503 million in the same period a year ago, or a growth of 107%. Revenues grew 59% to AED 3.808 billion during this period from AED 2.392 billion for the same period. The Company had a market capitalization of over AED 26 billion as of 25th September this year.

Emaar Properties, which pioneered freehold ownership in the UAE has delivered nearly 8,000 homes to owners. This is out of over 13,000 homes across several lifestyle communities that are in various stages of development.

Emaar has started work on the world's most prestigious urban development, which includes the world's tallest residential building, the Burj Dubai.

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Good link rk!

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Emaar awards Larsen and Toubro AED 108m contract to build Hyderabad Convention Centre in India
Emaar Properties today announced it has awarded an estimated AED 108 million contract to India-based engineering and construction giant Larsen and Toubro Limited to construct the Hyderabad Convention Centre, venue for the Asian Development Bank's biennial meeting to be held in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad in May 2006.

An artist rendering of the Hyderabad Convention Centre being developed by Emaar Properties in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.

The 4,000-seating capacity Convention Centre will be India's largest and easily the most technologically advanced convention facility. It is an integrated 291,000sq.ft facility abutting with a 300-room business hotel on 15 acres of land. The air-conditioned Centre can be configured to increase seating capacity to about 6,500 and is equipped with several automated features to facilitate diverse utilisation, with all facilities and amenities that a world standard gathering would conceivably seek.

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This is great news for the city of Hyderabad. With so many IT firms in that city, it might have missed opportunities to host International Events and seminars. Not anymore, after the completion of this project. Conventions and conferences not only showcase the city to the outer world, but also bring in much needed corporate revenue.

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Otherwise, a beautiful building with a good color scheme and facade, but what's with the ugly staircase? The designers could have been more descreet: the staircase looks disproportionate to the size of the building. :bash:

Madhu...........those disproportionate stairs is something I can live with. Atleast they are on the side. But take a look at the Supersized Umbrella on the roof. That totally killed the architecture.

Madhu...........those disproportionate stairs is something I can live with. Atleast they are on the side. But take a look at the Supersized Umbrella on the roof. That totally killed the architecture.

I agree. This is called botching up an otherwise handsome project. The idea of aesthetics has yet to seep into the Indian minds, as we on this forum, have come to expect. :)

Well, the display of overtly high-tech equipment, like dishes, etc. has become somewhat of a fad in Bangalore and Hyderabad, with little businesses wanting to show how technologically advanced they are :lol:

I believe it is the VSNL building.

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ITE ExpoCity & Recreation Center, Hyderabad: Official Website (MUST VISIT...Lots of Info) (http://www.iteindia.com/htecl/location.htm)

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Bit of an Old news......but with the rise of Sania Mirza as a new Indian individual sporting event Icon. I Just wanted to bring this article to your attention & let you know that there are lot more things to come.

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Breakfast of champions: IMG plans $350m sports hub
By Rimin Dutt
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2004

The Florida-based IMG Academies plans to invest about [/b]$350 million[/b] to build a sports academy in Hyderabad, India. The 400-acre proposed facility will be able to house and train 1,200 athletes. Sports will include tennis, soccer, basketball and golf.


BRANDENTON, Fla. - In a major deal that could change the face of non-cricket sports facilities in India, the Florida-based IMG Academies will pump in close to $350 million to build the country's largest sports academy in Hyderabad.

"Our goal is to train champions," said Andrew Krieger, chairman of the project.

The sports complex, which will be built in the outskirts of Hyderabad, will spread across 400 acres and will support a training facility for 1,200 athletes.

"We are looking to train Olympic athletes from India and other countries," said Krieger.

The site will also be marketed for major international sporting events.

"Our goal is to have it ready to win mandates for the Commonwealth Games in 2010 and the Olympics in 2020."

Last year, Krieger met with officials of the government of Andhra Pradesh and signed an agreement to begin work on the first 100 acres of the facility.

The first phase of the project will involve an investment of $135 million. It includes the setting up of an athletic center by August 2006, said Krieger.

Initially, the complex will focus on tennis, soccer, basketball, golf, aquatics and cricket. In the later stages, the training will include more Olympic-geared sports such as track and field, said Krieger. The center hopes to attract coaches from the United States and Europe.

The center will scout for athletes through talent search programs around India and support about half of the students through scholarships.

"We want to create a generation of scholar athletes," Krieger said.

Krieger believes that the center will help change the prevalent Indian mindset that it is difficult to make a living through sports - especially with the center offering scholarships to Indian children.

"People can learn many good things from sports such as team work and focus that can be transferred to other businesses," he said.

Plans for the center include a 300-room, five-star hotel, a five-star golf resort and spa, advanced medical center and a prep school.

Krieger believes that the new center and a new international airport currently under construction in Hyderabad will help attract tourists.

"Tourism would be a major source for revenue generation for the state and for us," he added.

Additionally, the complex will also open a secondary school to complement the full program of training and athletics.

The sports center is designed to become the most advanced complex in the region and the only of its kind outside North America, said Krieger.

IMG intends to work with the government of Andhra Pradesh to promote the complex. It has agreed to pass on a portion of its revenues to the state government.

The idea to build the complex came from Krieger and IMG.

Asked why he chose India over other countries, he said that it was partly because of his admiration for India.

"I am a long-time lover of India," he said. Krieger was a student of South Asian culture and studied Sanskrit during his masters program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Admitting that India has had an "abysmal" international sports record, Krieger said the country was yet to see real champions emerge with the help of good facilities.

"There is a lot of unexplored talent there that exists," he said. "I believe India has the genetics to produce world champions. It already has a proven mastery in yoga."

"The country is going through a major transition," he said. "It was time for a huge change in sports as well."



I think the rise of Hyderabad's own Sania Mirza will benefit India one way or the other. When it comes to individual events like Tennis, track & field, all we needed was one leader & the rest will follow.

Wonder whatever happened to the F1 race track CBN was after?

Wonder whatever happened to the F1 race track CBN was after?

Formula 1 for Hyderabad is shot down now. Chances are that either it will come up in Mumbai or Delhi & I think these are ideal places to fill Formula 1 stadium every event & turn in lots of revenue.

IMG Sports City is bound to happen Hyderabad. Any other Indian city, it'll cost 2 to 3 times as much money to by 400 acres of land. & the good thing about Hyd is it has the latest state-of-the-art stadia, facilities & games village recently built for 32nd national games & afro-asian games. In reality, work is half way done. Naidu gov't gave this land to IMG at throwaway price, in return IMG will maintain these sporting stadias & share the revenue. Its truly an everybody win situation.

Guys,
Seems IMGB proceedings are stalemate.
Govt has to do a long legal battle to get the land back, but don't like to give up due to political reasons. IMGB is not in a position to go ahead unless they get green signal from state Govt.
Seems the IMGB director is not in the good books of current state Govt, as he was known to be close to CBN.

But my guess is someday both the parties would strike a deal and finally things will start moving..

BTW..This land would be more & more sought with the Emmar's convention centre & world class Hotell.

Here is BS News:
http://www.businessstandard.com/bsonline/storypage.php?autono=163859

IMGB land deal may hit legal hurdle

With IMGB having already registered 400 acres in its name, experts see possible legal wrangle

B Dasarath Reddy / Hyderabad August 11, 2004



The decision by the state government to revise the price at which 400 acres of prime land in Hyderabad was allotted to IMG Bharata for setting up a sports academy may run into a legal tangle, as the land has already been registered by the company in its name.

Speaking to Business Standard, IMG Bharata director Billy Rao admitted that the 400 acres of land in Gachi Bowli had already been registered by the company.

“We registered the land a long time back,” Rao said. Refusing further comment on the issue, Rao said, “We continue to take care of our obligations.”

Legal sources point out that once the land is registered, it cannot be claimed back by the government.

“Once the land is registered, the government has to make a case legally that the land was allotted cheap and then make a move to acquire the land back. Then the government may have to pay the costs incurred by the company associated with the project as the land is legally owned by it,” leading legal sources pointed out.

Senior state government sources though told Business Standard that the government was confident that it could find a way to cancel the registration if IMG Bharata was not willing to comply with the revision in the land price.

The state government had on Friday last rescinded the previous TDP government’s decision to allot land for the company at Rs 50,000 per acre and revised the price by a whopping 400 times to Rs 2 crore per acre.

IMG Bharata, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Florida-based International Management Group, is proposing to set up an athletic training, education, leisure and resort complex project in the city at a cost of about Rs 700 crore, to be in invested in two tranches.

The fate of the project is hanging in balance because the state government’s decision has drastically altered the project cost. While the proposed project has seen IMG Bharata acquire 400 acres of land at a cost of Rs 2 crore, now the land cost alone would come to about Rs 800 crore.

The ‘Group of Ministers’ felt that the previous government’s decision to give away 400 acres of land at a throwaway price of Rs 50,000 per acre was totally unjustifiable, especially when its market value was close to Rs 2 crore per acre.

The ‘Group of Ministers’ is headed by state finance minister K Rosaiah and has been constituted to review decisions of the Naidu regime taken after January 2003.

As per the government order (GO) issued by the Naidu government, the promoters of the project are supposed to pay only Rs 2 crore for the entire 400 acres of land which belonged to the Hyderabad Central University.

Besides signing an MoU in his last days in office, the then chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had laid the foundation stone in the second week of February 2004.

As per GO Ms No 11 issued on February 9, after the dissolution of the state Assembly, the state Government sold to IMG Bharata (IMGB) 400 acres of University of Hyderabad land at a rate of Rs 50,000 per acre.

The GO also allowed IMGB to conduct activities that would generate profits, revenue fee among others, without limitation, without charging registration fee.

The Naidu government had also decided to sell another 450 acres of land near Shamshabad in Ranga Reddy district for the second phase of IMGB’s activities.

Besides this, the said GO allows the transfer of the government's stadia properties for a long-term lease not less than 45 years, during which, IMGB has a right to purchase the buildings and land at its discretion at a value, comprising land, building, maintenance and development costs incurred.

For five years, the government would have to bear the cost of maintenance and upkeep of stadia property at Rs 2.5 crore per annum along with the insurance cost; The government would contribute towards defrayment of IMGB costs for the promotion of the city up to $50,000 every year for five years, apart from extending all concessions, subsidies and other incentives that are provided to educational institutions.

The state government under the GO should also ensure uninterrupted, high-quality power supply and potable water and shall reimburse to the IMGB 100 per cent of their power, water and sewerage bills in the first three years and for next four years 25 per cent of the said bills. There would be no entertainment tax for 10 years on any of the events held by the IMGB in the property.

Responsibilities of the IMGB as per the GO include that it shall pay the value of the land at the time of registration as follows: Rs 2 crore for the 400 acres of land in Hyderabad Central University, Rs 112.5 lakh at the time or registration of 450 acres in Shamshabad; an additional amount of Rs.112.5 lakh with respect to development of roads and other facilities for Shamshabad within 90 days of the inauguration of new international airport; the IMGB shall spent Rs 500 crore in phase I and Rs 200 crore in phase II.

The GO also said: “IMGB shall use its reach to secure sponsorship for major sporting, lifestyle and entertainment events in Hyderabad; the IMGB shall pay Rs 5 crore to University of Hyderabad for developing specialised academic sources for athletes training with IMG and allow them to study in the university. The payment shall start at the end of the third year of entering the MoU. The IMGB has been granted television and broadcasting rights, sharing of revenue through gate sales and advertising and sponsorships.”

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Frenetic activity overtakes Hyderabad realty

Netscribes / Manisha Khosla
February 11, 2005

Just as in other Indian cities, the Information Technology (IT) boom is beginning to affect bourgeoisie Hyderabad’s real estate scenario. The realty landscape has been altered with the influx of IT workers whose more cosmopolitan needs and deep pockets are fuelling the property market like never before.

The city is seeing a phenomenal increase in the number of recreation alternatives like malls, pubs restaurants and hotels, and their values. Apart from this expansion in commercial realty, residential and housing property is also displaying an upward trend, both in terms of availability and prices.

Land prices, not only in the main city but also in the outskirts, are climbing due to the increased incidence of buying. In the vicinity of Kukatpally, particularly in and around the area of Nizampet, land prices have risen sharply owing to an increase in the number of buyers belonging to the IT sector.

Apart from land prices, the cost of built-up units like apartments and bungalows has also skyrocketed. Many real estate developers have entered the fray in the Kukatpally and Nizampet areas owing to its better connectivity with the IT neighbourhood and superior road infrastructure as compared to the main city. A duplex house built on 250 sq yds in Nizampet is today priced at anywhere between Rs 20 lakh to Rs 35 lakh.

Similarly, activity in the property market in the suburb of Uppal is assuming pace. This is primarily stimulated by the anticipated development of a major facility belonging to a global corporation and the likelihood of a new IT park being constructed at Pocharam.

Thus, purchasing power of the noveau riche, and speculation by those anticipating a further appreciation in real estate prices, is driving the Hyderabad realty market for the moment.

Real estate boom at Shamshabad

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Dubai Internet City may set up Hyderabad campus
Indo-Asian News Service


Hyderabad, March 2 (IANS) Dubai Internet City is exploring the possibility of setting up a campus here and joining with the Andhra Pradesh government in developing a knowledge corridor in the state.

A four-member team led by Omar Bin Sulaiman, director general of Dubai International Financial Centre and CEO of Dubai Internet City (DIC), Wednesday called on Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to discuss possible areas of cooperation.

Sulaiman said they were interested in exploring the possibility of associating with the development of the proposed knowledge corridor.

Dubai was also exploring the possibility of establishing a DIC in Hyderabad, he added.

Reddy directed K.V. Rao, principal secretary of industries, to examine the DIC issue and formulate necessary proposals in this regard.

A statement from the chief minister's office said senior officials including DIC sales director Fareed Abdulrahman and minister for major industries B. Satyanarayana also attended the meeting.

Sulaiman said Dubai was keen to explore the possibilities of building investment relations in Hyderabad.

About 700 information and communication technology (ICT) companies have their operations in DIC. DIC is a free trade zone and a regional business hub for ICT companies, targeting emerging markets in a vast region extending from the Middle East to the Indian subcontinent, and Africa to CIS countries.

DIC is also the Middle East's biggest IT infrastructure and has the largest commercial Internet Protocol Telephony system in the world.


Knowledge Corridor to be set up
K SREEDHAR RAO

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HYDERABAD: The government has approved a proposal to set up a Hyderabad Knowledge Corridor consisting of IT and ITeS companies covering over 20,000 acres in Ranga Reddy district.

Work on the project will commence in about six months time, official sources told The Times of India . The initial cost of the project is estimated to be around Rs 5,000 crore. The government's investment will be of the order of Rs 100 crore. It will be developed with complete private participation.

The government will float a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to execute the project. The corridor begins from the area adjacent to the Indian School of Business (ISB) and extend to the proposed Outer Ring Road, sources said.

The idea is to build a self-contained, ultra-modern satellite city having a eight-lane trunk road and six-lane interior roads, high security, 24-hour water supply and uninterrupted power. Describing it as a dream project, a senior government official said this would be completed in about 5-7 years time.

Non-polluting knowledge-centric industries would be located in the proposed corridor. Working and living place, entertainment, education, health facilities etc would be provided to those who opt to stay in the corridor. The government will notify the land required for the purpose and bring the land owners and the developers face to face for acquiring the land. The second option before the administration is to make the land owners profit sharing partners in the venture. The government wants to provide facilities like drinking water to the local villagers, which fall under the Corridor.

The officials are confident that during a period of four years, the Corridor would employ 3 lakh people, who are estimated to contribute about Rs 450 crore per annum to the state's exchequer.

Hyderabad impresses Iranian speaker
Indo-Asian News Service


Hyderabad, March 4 (IANS) Iranian Majlis (parliament) speaker Ghulam Ali Haddad Adil Friday visited this historic city and said he was impressed with the architectural and cultural similarities with his country.

"I am impressed by the similarities between this city and Iran. There is so much in common between Hyderabad and several cities of Iran. The architecture and culture are all the same," he told reporters.

Adil, who is leading a 32-member delegation, went around some historic places in the city and held talks with Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara, Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker K. R. Suresh Reddy and other officials.

Adil, who later left for Iran, also addressed a meeting of the Iranian community. The city has a sizeable population of Iranian descent, who migrated and settled here decades ago.

The Iranian leader, who earlier visited New Delhi and Bangalore, went around the 800-year-old Golconda Fort, the historic Charminar and Makkah Masjid.

Indo-Asian News Service


Hyderabad, Suwon enter `Sister city' pact

By Our Staff Reporter



HYDERABAD, MARCH 3. The City of Hyderabad and the City of Suwon in the Republic of Korea, signed the "International sister city" agreement here on Thursday for promotion of mutual understanding and friendly relations.

The agreement was inked by the Hyderabad Mayor, T. Krishna Reddy, and his Suwon counterpart, Kim Yong Seo, the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Commissioner, Chitra Ramachandran, and the Director General, Culture and Tourism, City of Suwon, Lee Jae-Sun.

The agreement seeks to establish cooperative exchanges in economy, environment management, city development, culture and tourism. Both cities will also exchange information and ideas to improve the welfare of citizens.

Mr. Yong Seo, who is leading a 24-member delegation, said Korea and India were developing relations in various fields and both were strong powers in the field of IT. Hyderabad and Suwon had similar aspects like historical heritage and high tech science. Suwon was the hub of Korean high tech industry such as information, semiconductor, nanotechnology and biotechnology. "This relationship will become the corner stone for promoting quality of life of citizens of both countries", Mr. Yong Seo said.

In his address, Mr. Krishna Reddy, briefly referred to the activities undertaken by the MCH and said this year it was proposed to build five more flyovers to ease traffic congestion.

The Deputy Mayor, Subhash Chanderjee, and the Chairperson of Suwon City Council, Kim Myeong-su, also spoke.

Ms. Chitra Ramchandran said the two cities could also have exchange of meritorious students besides cooperation in culture and urban economy.


Real estate boom at Shamshabad

By M.L. Melly Maitreyi



HYDERABAD, MARCH 1. There has been a spurt in the real estate activity in the surrounding areas of Shamshabad with the work on the international airport set to commence in near future and work on the first phase of Outer Ring Road project from Gachibowli to Shamshabad in about three months.

The Shamshabad International Airport area is in the jurisdiction of the Hyderabad Airport Development Authority (HADA) comprising an area of 450 sq.km and one-fourth of the area, has been earmarked for the International Airport. The latest HADA master plan is yet to be notified in view of the amendments proposed to the draft master plan. However, as per the 1996 Government Order, 40 per cent of HADA under the catchment area of Osmansagar and Himayatsagar comprising 86 villages is notified. Some of the villages are in the jurisdiction of HUDA and the others under HADA.

While industries had been banned in the notified area, institutions and facilities coming up should follow low density norms ie. 5 Floor Area Ratio. In other words, the FAR in the notified area would be one-third of what would be allowed in other areas, according to HUDA sources. Normal development is allowed in the remaining area other than the notified area and land earmarked for the airport. The first layout developed as per the draft HADA plan, on Nagarjuna Sagar road is likely to be approved shortly, it is disclosed.

The sources point out that not many developers are in a hurry to apply for layout approvals as for a majority of the buyers land is only an investment option. "Unlike in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the plots are registered in our State even if a layout is not approved by the urban development authority concerned. But it has inherent risks," points out an official.

While the norms are in place, there are however no special provisions to prevent illegal constructions. Not only in HADA, in any urban development authority, admits an official. One hopes to regularise them in due course and unfortunately there is no stigma attached to building plan violations, quips the official.

Man this is gr8!
Hi tec city looks very nice.
About the tower proposed by the G S group of companies, can anyone tell me what is the status of that project?. Is is still "proposed" or Hafeez contractor hired to do the job finally?

Sonia lays foundation stone for Hyderabad airport

Indo-Asian News Service

Hyderabad, March 16, 2005|22:59 IST

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Work on Hyderabad International Airport formally began on Wednesday when United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone for the project.

The airport coming up on 5,400 acres of land at Shamsabad, 20 kilometre from here, could become India's first world-class international airport with the longest runway of 4.26 kilometre.

Though it is the second international airport taken up as a public-private project after the Bangalore airport, it could well be the first project to be completed when its initial phase becomes operational in 2008.

The Rs 14.18 billion ($320 million) airport, being built by a consortium of construction major GMR Infrastructure Ltd and Malaysia Airports Holding Berhad (MAHB), will have a capacity of handling 3.7 million passengers a year.

Named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the airport will have several unique features like a village to provide wholesome shopping environment and an entertainment ambience for the passengers.

Hyderabad had witnessed the historic launch of India's first aviation company and the existing airport at Begumpet in 1936. Deccan Airways Limited was owned by the then princely state of Hyderabad.

A message from Princess Durrushehvar, daughter-in-law of the last Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, was read out on the occasion. The princess, who now lives abroad, had inaugurated the Begumpet airport.

To mark the occasion, a photo exhibition on the aviation history of Deccan Airways was organised.

The existing Begumpet airport in Hyderabad would be closed down once the new international airport becomes operational.

Sonia Gandhi, who unveiled the plaque, said the new airports were necessary to keep pace with global developments in the aviation sector.

"World-class airports are a must for business and trade. They not only generate jobs for millions of people but also help the country earn foreign exchange and promote national integration by connecting different places of tourism, historic and religious significance," she said.

The Congress president also underlined the need for the upgradation of existing airports in the country.

Union Minister for Civil Aviation Praful Patel, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy and GM group chairman GM Rao were among those present.

Presentation made to YSR on monorail system

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MARCH 21. The Chairman of Metrail India, Zafar Saifullah, made a presentation to the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, on hybrid monorail as mass transit system for Hyderabad on Monday.

He said that phase - I of the project would cover three routes -- Kukatpally to L.B. Nagar (28 km), Secunderabad railway station to Mehdipatnam (19.5 km) and Masab Tank to Lakdikapul (1.5 km) -- covering a total distance of 49 km with 38 stations. After successful completion of phase - I, a further 150 km monorail network could be taken up to cover the remaining busy routes.

Explaining the major features of the monorail, Mr. Saifullah said that the capacity was 120 persons per carriage and 1,200 persons per train. The entire project would take about 18 to 24 months from the time the Government giving the nod. He said no financial investment was needed from the Government and the project would be implemented on BOOT basis and full project finance would be arranged by a consortium and team consisting of Metrail A. G. Switzerland (the holding company), Frazer-Nash, UK (the technology developer and provider), MMC, Malaysia (major infrastructure developer), SPNB, Malaysia (mass transit operator), Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (infrastructure developer and financier), SAPL (structural engineers and architects).

The cost of the project is Rs. 45 crores per km, which is lowest compared to the Rs. 150-200 crore per km for the metro rail. He said the monorail did not require any land acquisition as it would be an elevated system and run on solar power, batteries and hybrid generator.

The Chief Minister, after the presentation, directed that a committee of secretaries appointed for the purpose would study the project and come up with its observations at the earliest.

Later, talking to newsmen, Mr. Saifullah, also a former Cabinet Secretary, said they were ready to take up the system in its entirety including rails, carriages, signalling, ticketing etc. "We are ready to run the monorail system on its own or also to make seamless integration with the existing multi-mode transit system (MMTS) and bus services. Eco-friendly hybrid feeder vehicles too will be pressed into service up to the elevated stations," he said.

Fares equal to MMTS

Giving a cost wise analysis of the likely fares, he said the monorail services were ready to provide fares equivalent to the existing levels in MMTS and bus services. The Technical Director, Gordon Dixon, said monorails offered flexibility to run at or above ground with much lighter rolling stock. Its lowest turning radius of 30 mts was ideal for even congested locations like the Charminar when compared to the 80 mts to 200 mts turning radius of a metro train. Moreover, with no high voltage concerns, global positioning system on the trains and sensors on the tracks, the safety features were solid, he said.


Malaysian group submits plan on MRTS

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MARCH 23. A Malaysian investment group, Magna Allmore, submitted a proposal on the Mass Rail Transit System (MRTS) for city, to the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, on Wednesday.

The proposal submitted through a letter of Expression of Interest is for a project of 33 km system estimated to cost between Rs. 3,500 and Rs. 5,000 crores, a release said.

The system, the investment group claimed, would be a total integrated solution to decongest traffic in the city and consists of Light Rail Transit (only technology that supports both driver and driverless operations), MonoRail (that could be used as feeder services), dedicated bus service and utilisation of the existing MMTS. Apart from the proposed MRT Corridor of Kukatpally to LB Nagar and Hitec City to Ghatkesar route through Secunderabad, the proposal recommended connectivity between Shamshabad and Hitec city.

The company offered to undertake consultancy, engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of contract including total financing for the Mass Rapid Transit Project. It would not entail investments from the Government.

alright, after a weeklong spring break, I am back into active SSC duty.

and my first post in weeks is....

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Members of the World Memon Organisation headed by vice-president Haji Abubakar Khasim, pose for a photograph during the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the International Memon Centre at Aghapura in Hyderabad on March 21, 2005.

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Tourism mall takes shape in Hyderabad [28 March 2005]
By Poonam Singh

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One of the largest tourism malls in India, Paryatak Bhavan, is taking shape in Hyderabad, on two acres at Begumpet. The civil work started at the end of 2003 and is likely to be completed by August 2005. The construction has been awarded to Ramky Infrastructure Company. The total cost, Rs 24 crore, is funded by the government of India, the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation.
The mall is claimed to be a one-stop answer for everything in travel and tourism. It would have a tourist information bureau for all states, offices of hotels, travel agents, reservation counters for tourism stake holders and modern communication facilities. It will also host other tourist-required services like banking, money changing and courier.
The seven-storey complex will be centrally air-conditioned with a built-up area of 2,05,000 sq ft. It will include major shopping areas, like handicrafts, jewellery and souvenirs, three conference halls of 150, 75 and 25 seating capacity each. Food courts will serve Indian and international cuisine. The top four floors will house a 3-star hotel with 80 rooms, swimming pool, ayurvedic centre and gymnasium. The hotel will be managed by Punnami Hotels promoted by Andhra Tourism.

APTDC revenues to cross Rs 62cr this fiscal

Barkha Shah / Hyderabad March 30, 2005

Riding on a slew of tourism-promotion measures, the Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (APTDC) will be crossing the Rs 62-crore mark in revenues this fiscal as compared to Rs 46 crore in the last financial year.

This implies a year-on-year growth of 34 per cent. This apart, it is also embarking on new projects in the next fiscal to maintain the momentum of this growth.

Speaking to Business Standard, T V N Rao, managing director of APTDC, said, “This fiscal, we started a couple of new projects like the ropeway at Srisailam, Taramati Baradari culture complex where three national cultural festivals were organised, and the Konaseema resort that, for the first time, promotes backwater tourism in Andhra Pradesh. The corporation, therefore, is doing well and we are looking at better revenues in the coming years.”

The corporation earns a major part of its revenues from packaged tours, followed by hotels, water fleet, lease rentals and entertainment activities like sound-and-light shows.

“The coming fiscal will see part of the Lower Krishna Valley Buddhist Circuit being commissioned at Nagarjunasagar and Amaravati. We will be developing a theme park, tourist amenities and an interpretation centre besides recreating a stupa in around 80 acres of the area in the next fiscal,” Rao said. This will involve an investment of around Rs 11 crore.

“This apart, the Rs 24-crore Paryatak Bhavan, a one-stop tourist facilitation centre, will also be commissioned during the same period. We will also be commissioning a new cruiser on the Hussainsagar lake that will be larger than the existing ones by the end of May,” he added.

The corporation has so far developed way-side amenities on four highways and plans develop it on 12 more highways.

“Way-side amenities in the form of restaurants, general stores, etc will be developed on 12 highways (state and national) at a cost of Rs 50 lakh each. These will be in places like Suryapet, Annavaram, Dornala and Lepakshi,” Rao said.

“We will also be adding nine new Volvo buses to our existing fleet of 116 buses and replacing six hi-tech buses. The corporation is also setting up a Rs 3.5 crore 24-room resort at Anantagiri in Araku Valley. We are looking at organising trekking programmes and other adventure sports like wilderness camping and rock-climbing here,” Rao said.

“On the Bhavani Island in Vijayawada, we are considering setting up a resort with private participation on a build-operate-transfer basis that will have rented accommodation, houseboats and facilities for water-sports,” he added.

The corporation is looking at touching the Rs 80-crore turnover target in 2005-06, followed by Rs 100-crore in 2006-07, with these new measures.

Charminar cracks continue to grow

Pillars of the 400-year-old symbol of Hyderabad — Charminar — are facing serious threats as no action has been taken to check the growing cracks and damages even though the problem was first brought to light in 2002 by the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI). Scientists at the institute who have completed the first round of seismic studies on the heritage structure recently pointed out that the four pillars are being damaged due to heavy vehicle movement in the region.

Talking to this correspondent, NGRI director Mr V. P. Dimri pointed out that one of the pillars has been under extreme stress for the past few years. Further studies have to be conducted on the pillars to substantiate the exact nature of the problem. Mr Dimri added, “The stress on the pillars and structure has not reduced much over the years although we came up with recommendations to stop the movement of the heavy vehicles in the vicinity. We have decided to take up another round of geophysical studies on the pillars and structure, as a whole, as the problem could be more grievous in nature than what we had anticipated.”

Results gained so far are not being made public because more work needs to be done on the pillars. “We are doing all this for the public and everybody should understand how important this structure is to Hyderabadis,” Mr Dimri said. When the last survey was conducted in 2002, on an average 1,000 vehicles moved around the monument every hour. In 2005 the figure hovers around 1,500 vehicles per hour. The studies conducted by the NGRI in 2002 also revealed that even though the permissible limit is 2.9 millimetre per second, the underground vibrations due to heavy traffic movement often reach a peak particle velocity of over 7.5 millimetre per second.

Andhra Pradesh repealing ULCA, massive construction activity, FDI, taller buildings in urban districts expected. Based on this reform, World Bank will release 1400 cr for urban infra development in the state, plus restructure state's current debt. Full details at:

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=88411


Wonder why the hell isn't Maharshtra undertaking the same reform to release WB and Central funds for Mumbai's projects??? :bash:

Wow great news Citi-Zen. Next on the line is hopefully the Rent Control Act.

Do not worry about Maharashtra. Competition is what we need to persuade them to reform the state and especially Mumbai.

Hyderabad may get underwater world on Hussain Sagar banks!!!!!!!!!!

B Dasarath Reddy in Hyderabad | April 20, 2005 12:49 IST
Last Updated: April 20, 2005 12:50 IST

Hyderabad is likely to have an underwater world showcasing thousands of marine species including sharks, if the ongoing efforts of the Andhra Pradesh government's newly formed APInvest succeed.

The project, first-of-its-kind in the country, will be set up beside the Hussain Sagar lake and may cost anywhere between Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) and Rs 125 crore (Rs 1.25 billion), according to initial estimates.

Singapore-based Centosa Leisure Group, which runs a similar project in that city state, has evinced interest to set up the underwater world project, during a meeting with C S Rao, chief executive officer of APInvest and IT advisor to the state government, in Singapore a couple of days ago.

According to Rao, a team of the Centosa group is visiting Hyderabad on May 6, 2005, to study the place and the prospects for the proposed project.

"We want this project to come up beneath the 90-acre Sanjeevaiah Park located on the banks of Hussain Sagar. This project will be a major tourist attraction," Rao, who returned from Singapore after a three-day official tour on April 17, told Business Standard.

The state tourism department and the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority, which owns the Sanjeevaiah Park, will be involved in the project, he said.

Apart from the underwater world, a 3D and 4D movie screening facility where the audience will travel through a simulated real-life experience, is also being planned by the Centosa group in Hyderabad, Rao said.

According to him, talks are also on with CPG Corporation of Singapore on water treatment and reusable water project, and with Techno 1 Corporation on the Science and Technology Park project at Hyderabad.

"Techno 1 wants a huge chunk of land at commercial prices and proposes to run the park on its own. The state government would provide the infrastructural support if the plan materialises," Rao said.

The business model for the underwater world and other projects is expected to be finalised after the teams from both the companies visit Hyderabad.

CPG group is scheduled to send its delegation on May 23, 2005.

"While we have grown big in medical and spiritual tourism, the state is still lagging behind in recreational tourism. This is all the more required in places like Hyderabad where people from the fast growing IT and bio-tech industry and other professions look forward to quality recreation," Rao said.


Work on four flyovers by month-end with 10 months deadline

Staff Reporter

MCH is for consensus on the issue of religious structures on the road

HYDERABAD: The construction work on the proposed four flyovers in the city will commence by month-end. Financial bids will be opened in a day or two, according to the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) Commissioner, Chitra Ramachandran.

"We have undertaken a detailed technical and systematic programme. We are on the verge of issuing required permissions to selected contractors, and the deadline is 10 months for completing them," she said.

Talking to newsmen, Ms. Ramachandran said the flyovers would be built at Nalgonda crossroads, Chandrayangutta, Punjagutta and Greenlands. "From the time the Government asked us to take up flyovers, we have initiated the activity by taking up several studies on the design, selection of consultants, pre-qualification of bids, etc., without a single court case," she said.

Slip road

With the Government indicating that the corporation take up the flyovers in its area, it was being proposed to construct two or three more flyovers at Mozamjahi Market, Madina and another in the Old City. Administrative clearance was also obtained for the slip road connecting Raj Bhavan road to Fatehnagar, with two road over-bridges estimated at Rs. 45 crores. Tenders would be called soon as feasibility reports were ready.

Ms. Ramachandran said, though road widening was a pretty complicated task, it was successfully taken up in 257 km. Work on 57 stretches was in the final stages while widening of 62 roads was yet to be undertaken.

"All this has been done with our internal resources. We have been able to acquire properties belonging to the Government and some private buildings. The toughest phase is going into residential areas and litigants. This is a 400-year-od city and it will take at least a couple of years to complete a road and we are applying ourselves systematically," she said.

Nala desilting

With regard to religious structures on the road and misuse of cellars, she was at pains to emphasise that most of these were a legacy of the past. "It will take time to convince people and we are ready to hold consultations with the help of public representatives on religious structures," she said.

Unlike the earlier practice of desilting nalas for three months in a year, the MCH embarked on a project to do it all through the year. Work was divided into 46 packages and contractors were asked to set up public call offices in their respective areas to monitor works.


Green signal for nine malls

V. Geetanath

Traffic chaos will result and parking will be a pain

The coming up buildings are GSR Hotels &Estates (opp. Jalagam Vengal Rao Park)
GVK Mall (near Banjara Hills Post Office)
City Centre Mall (opp. Hotel Taj Krishna)
Alcazar Plaza and Towers
Shoppin g complex at former residence of cinestar Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Ashoka Mall (intersection of Banjara Hills Road No.12 &1)
Babu Khan Mall and two more in the region


HYDERABAD: Rising vehicular traffic, narrow roads, hindrances from religious structures and a mere six per cent road space should make any urban planner for the capital think twice before permitting high-rises or multiplexes in the central region. But, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad thinks differently. Barely has the storm over permission given to the Hyderabad Central Mall at the super-busy Punjagutta crossroads blown over, MCH has already given sanction for nine more private malls in the clogged Banjara Hills-Ameerpet-Punjagutta region!

All study, no action

The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, had recently directed officials to initiate action on commercial complexes that misuse cellars and on those without proper parking space. He had also set deadlines for a comprehensive roadmap. But, studies and reports by MCH itself were put on the backburner.

"Capacity of the roads is saturated. Traffic impact studies, calculating the exit and entry capacity of vehicles, are imperative especially for structures of more than 5,000 sq.ft. in the central city region," says S. Raghavachari, former advisor to MCH on traffic.

Tale of a mall town

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Hyderabad may get underwater world on Hussain Sagar banks!!!!!!!!!!

B Dasarath Reddy in Hyderabad | April 20, 2005 12:49 IST
Last Updated: April 20, 2005 12:50 IST

Hyderabad is likely to have an underwater world showcasing thousands of marine species including sharks, if the ongoing efforts of the Andhra Pradesh government's newly formed APInvest succeed.

The project, first-of-its-kind in the country, will be set up beside the Hussain Sagar lake and may cost anywhere between Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) and Rs 125 crore (Rs 1.25 billion), according to initial estimates.

Singapore-based Centosa Leisure Group, which runs a similar project in that city state, has evinced interest to set up the underwater world project, during a meeting with C S Rao, chief executive officer of APInvest and IT advisor to the state government, in Singapore a couple of days ago.

According to Rao, a team of the Centosa group is visiting Hyderabad on May 6, 2005, to study the place and the prospects for the proposed project.

"We want this project to come up beneath the 90-acre Sanjeevaiah Park located on the banks of Hussain Sagar. This project will be a major tourist attraction," Rao, who returned from Singapore after a three-day official tour on April 17, told Business Standard.

The state tourism department and the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority, which owns the Sanjeevaiah Park, will be involved in the project, he said.

Apart from the underwater world, a 3D and 4D movie screening facility where the audience will travel through a simulated real-life experience, is also being planned by the Centosa group in Hyderabad, Rao said.

According to him, talks are also on with CPG Corporation of Singapore on water treatment and reusable water project, and with Techno 1 Corporation on the Science and Technology Park project at Hyderabad.

"Techno 1 wants a huge chunk of land at commercial prices and proposes to run the park on its own. The state government would provide the infrastructural support if the plan materialises," Rao said.

The business model for the underwater world and other projects is expected to be finalised after the teams from both the companies visit Hyderabad.

CPG group is scheduled to send its delegation on May 23, 2005.

"While we have grown big in medical and spiritual tourism, the state is still lagging behind in recreational tourism. This is all the more required in places like Hyderabad where people from the fast growing IT and bio-tech industry and other professions look forward to quality recreation," Rao said.


Yay!!! Go Singaporean FDI!!!


Work on four flyovers by month-end with 10 months deadline

Staff Reporter

MCH is for consensus on the issue of religious structures on the road

HYDERABAD: The construction work on the proposed four flyovers in the city will commence by month-end. Financial bids will be opened in a day or two, according to the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) Commissioner, Chitra Ramachandran.

"We have undertaken a detailed technical and systematic programme. We are on the verge of issuing required permissions to selected contractors, and the deadline is 10 months for completing them," she said.

Talking to newsmen, Ms. Ramachandran said the flyovers would be built at Nalgonda crossroads, Chandrayangutta, Punjagutta and Greenlands. "From the time the Government asked us to take up flyovers, we have initiated the activity by taking up several studies on the design, selection of consultants, pre-qualification of bids, etc., without a single court case," she said.

Slip road

With the Government indicating that the corporation take up the flyovers in its area, it was being proposed to construct two or three more flyovers at Mozamjahi Market, Madina and another in the Old City. Administrative clearance was also obtained for the slip road connecting Raj Bhavan road to Fatehnagar, with two road over-bridges estimated at Rs. 45 crores. Tenders would be called soon as feasibility reports were ready.

Ms. Ramachandran said, though road widening was a pretty complicated task, it was successfully taken up in 257 km. Work on 57 stretches was in the final stages while widening of 62 roads was yet to be undertaken.

"All this has been done with our internal resources. We have been able to acquire properties belonging to the Government and some private buildings. The toughest phase is going into residential areas and litigants. This is a 400-year-od city and it will take at least a couple of years to complete a road and we are applying ourselves systematically," she said.

Nala desilting

With regard to religious structures on the road and misuse of cellars, she was at pains to emphasise that most of these were a legacy of the past. "It will take time to convince people and we are ready to hold consultations with the help of public representatives on religious structures," she said.

Unlike the earlier practice of desilting nalas for three months in a year, the MCH embarked on a project to do it all through the year. Work was divided into 46 packages and contractors were asked to set up public call offices in their respective areas to monitor works.


Great but when the HELL is Hyderbad getting an expressway network, it desperately needs one!


Green signal for nine malls

V. Geetanath

Traffic chaos will result and parking will be a pain

The coming up buildings are GSR Hotels &Estates (opp. Jalagam Vengal Rao Park)
GVK Mall (near Banjara Hills Post Office)
City Centre Mall (opp. Hotel Taj Krishna)
Alcazar Plaza and Towers
Shoppin g complex at former residence of cinestar Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Ashoka Mall (intersection of Banjara Hills Road No.12 &1)
Babu Khan Mall and two more in the region


HYDERABAD: Rising vehicular traffic, narrow roads, hindrances from religious structures and a mere six per cent road space should make any urban planner for the capital think twice before permitting high-rises or multiplexes in the central region. But, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad thinks differently. Barely has the storm over permission given to the Hyderabad Central Mall at the super-busy Punjagutta crossroads blown over, MCH has already given sanction for nine more private malls in the clogged Banjara Hills-Ameerpet-Punjagutta region!

All study, no action

The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, had recently directed officials to initiate action on commercial complexes that misuse cellars and on those without proper parking space. He had also set deadlines for a comprehensive roadmap. But, studies and reports by MCH itself were put on the backburner.

"Capacity of the roads is saturated. Traffic impact studies, calculating the exit and entry capacity of vehicles, are imperative especially for structures of more than 5,000 sq.ft. in the central city region," says S. Raghavachari, former advisor to MCH on traffic.

hyderabd really, really desperately needs multi-story parking structures every 150m or so, and more importantly needs SIDEWALKS, right now ppl walk on the road itself, slowing down traffic.

Charminar project hits another roadblock (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1086537.cms)

Charminar pedestrianisation project has hit another roadblock. The Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad's move to create a buffer zone around the historic monument is being met with stiff resistance by property owners in the vicinity of the structure.

The MCH had recently served notices on 27 property owners, most of them in the Laad Bazaar area, to hand over their dwellings to create the proposed buffer zone. The corporation had wanted to raze the buildings and develop greenery as part of the Charminar pedestrianisation project.

The buffer zone was primarily aimed at neutralising noise pollution around the over 400-year monument by preventing haphazard construction and business activity.

As the properties around Charminar are of very high commercial value, the landlords are demanding that they be provided alternate site close to the monument. The MCH also issued a notice to the city police to relocate the Charminar police station.

According to MCH officials, several property owners are refusing to even accept notices. They have been sticking to their one demand: suitable land close to the monument.

Cyber Pearl, Ph. III, under construction
http://www.lntecc.com/gallery/images/53/big1.jpg

Cyber Pearl, Ph. III, under construction
http://www.lntecc.com/gallery/images/53/big1.jpg

Magestom...........This is completed long time ago I believe. I remember seeing the completed image of it.

This is Microsoft Hyderabad, just a portion of it. Still cant find the better image of it.

http://www.dlsqs.com/NewsImg/401/microsoftcampus.gif

This may seem to be coming at an odd time guys, but if you remember, there was a 60 storey project for Hyderabad. Anybody has any info on this?.

I hope that Hyderabad gets more s&g structures. Bangalore is doing a stellar job on this front. It desparately needs some, if it has to become the next "singapore".

Guys,

I have the most recent pictures of Microsoft Hyderabad.
I shall post them soon.

BTW have you guys travelled in MMTS??

Guys,

I have the most recent pictures of Microsoft Hyderabad.
I shall post them soon.

BTW have you guys travelled in MMTS??

Naveenji.............It'll be great if you can post the latest pics on microsoft & other software parks of hyderabad. No I haven't travelled in MMTS. If you have. please share the experience & photos. thanks.

Sure Hindustani, I shall do that.
Please give me few weeks time. I have taken a video on MMTS, but not sure how
to place on this site.

I need to go around and take several pictures and then post it.

Young women make 'safe' Hyderabad home

http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template=womencrime&slug=Young+women+make+'safe'+Hyderabad+home&id=72583&callid=1

Yes it is really very true, Hyderabad is very much safe for Women.

Local people are also very hospitable.

Bus Rapid Transit fits the bill: study

http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/08/stories/2005050815520300.htm

I think a metro MRTS is better than a BUS system. Trains look cute and are capable of carrying huge human traffic and load.

I think a metro MRTS is better than a BUS system. Trains look cute and are capable of carrying huge human traffic and load.

Naveenji............This is not the question of "either" "or" I believe. Hyderabad monorail is definitely coming. This article is talking about complimenting it with a very good Rapid Bus Transport system or Skybus system to declog the already narrow congested roads of Hyderabad city.

Well I thought that the Rapid Bus system is going to replace the proposed Monorail
project. Fine I agree with you Hindustani.

If you can tell me the difference between the Rapid Bus Transit system and the Skybus it would be very helpful.

RMZ Futura, Hitec City. Is this completed?
http://www.rmzcorp.com/images/proj_futura_hyd.jpg

http://www.rmzcorp.com/images/proj_futura_hydmore1.jpg

http://www.rmzcorp.com/images/proj_futura_hydmore2.jpg

This is ultimate building I have ever seen man!! Truly terrific.

RMZ Futura, Hitec City. Is this completed?
http://www.rmzcorp.com/images/proj_futura_hyd.jpg

http://www.rmzcorp.com/images/proj_futura_hydmore1.jpg

http://www.rmzcorp.com/images/proj_futura_hydmore2.jpg

Yes it is I believe. Here is the u/c images of Futura.

http://pics.feen.com/albums/india/1_13_2005_india_walktowork2_014.sized.jpg

http://pics.feen.com/albums/rmzfutura/1_20_2005_india_hitech_023.sized.jpg

http://pics.feen.com/albums/rmzfutura/1_13_2005_india_walktowork2_017.sized.jpg

http://pics.feen.com/albums/rmzfutura/1_13_2005_india_walktowork2_021.sized.jpg

http://pics.feen.com/albums/rmzfutura/1_13_2005_india_walktowork2_022.sized.jpg

http://pics.feen.com/albums/rmzfutura/1_13_2005_india_walktowork2_020.sized.jpg

http://pics.feen.com/albums/rmzfutura/1_13_2005_india_walktowork2_020.sized.jpg

These are old construction photos. All of them are complete now.

Hi Guys,

First post. Let me start with some info:

L&T has started a mega residential project in Gachibowli called Serene County. Spread over 32 acres, right next to a Golf Course, and on the Outer Ring Road.

Website: Website (http://www.ltinfocity.com/residential/)

Looking at the facilities, quality of construction, etc., this should turn out to be the best residential project of Hyderabad. Or are there any better? Any opinions? Anybody knows more about this project?

A related question: Gachibowli seems to be coming up as the "place to beat" in Hyderabad, with ISB, Microsoft, Infosys, Sports Complex, etc. Is my assessment correct? Anybody has a good map of that area?

Guys,
Can you tell me how to upload an image?

Guys,
Can you tell me how to upload an image?

Pretty easy. Here is a link with details.. :)

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=194364

Cheatsheet:

Basically go to www.imageshack.us (or similar sites) and load the pic from your hard drive. Then post the http link (returned by imageshack) between IMG and /IMG tags. Tags are enclosed within [TAG].

Anybody has any idea about when this is going to come up?. Looks very sexy!


http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/housing/apartmentbuilding/obelisk/Obelisk-1.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/housing/apartmentbuilding/obelisk/Obelisk-2.jpg[/QUOTE]

Anybody has any idea about when this is going to come up?. Looks very sexy!


http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/housing/apartmentbuilding/obelisk/Obelisk-1.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/housing/apartmentbuilding/obelisk/Obelisk-2.jpg[/QUOTE]


Im pretty sure the plans for Obelisk have been shelved, that proposal is about a year old. If there was any plans for construction we would have heard some news by now, but its a shame because that would have added real character to Hyderabad's skyline

Hi Guys,

First post. Let me start with some info:

L&T has started a mega residential project in Gachibowli called Serene County. Spread over 32 acres, right next to a Golf Course, and on the Outer Ring Road.

Website: Website (http://www.ltinfocity.com/residential/)



That is a huge project! Thanks for the info and welcome to the forums.

Oracle’s IDCs at Hyderabad all set to scale up operations

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Hyderabad: Following the takeover of Peoplesoft, Oracle's India Development Centers (IDC) in Bangalore and Hyderabad are set to witness more action this year in terms of investments and scaling up of head count.
The $10.3-billion takeover will trigger an increased inflow of business to the IDCs as the migration of various PeopleSoft and JD Edwards platforms to Oracle's Project Fusion is already happening.
The Oracle IDC has taken up its headcount to 6,900 this year from 4,000 in 2004, Oracle India Support centre senior director Rajeev Shroff told The Times of India.
Project Fusion combines Oracle technologies with products it has acquired from PeopleSoft and JD Edwards.
The IDCs together form the largest group of developers outside the company's global headquarters. They are now busy in integrating operations of Hexaware and Covansys, which used to run the PeopleSoft applications. Oracle has also agreed to retain the employees of both the companies. Oracle is also in the process of acquiring the Peoplesoft facility in Bangalore.
Oracle in Hyderabad is in the process of setting up its own campus and the operations would move the new facility near the Hitec City shortly, Shroff said.
The city-based centre, which has been involved in product development, global product support and on-demand operations, finds its key markets evolving out of making forays in on-demand operations.
"Close to 50% of the on-demand operations of Oracle is managed out of India. The sector will be a focus area for the company in the coming years. We are scaling up efforts to increase the number of on-demand clients from the present 400," Shroff said.

http://www.grihrachna.net/projects/surakshaa/SurakshaaResidency1.jpg

Aswini Layout, Jubilee Hills

http://www.grihrachna.net/projects/csr/house.gif

http://www.nirmalahomes.com/images/iyangerb.jpg

http://www.vitisvilla.com/images/westsideplan3.JPG

Vitis Villa

http://www.vitisvilla.com/images/westsideplan4.jpg

http://www.vitisvilla.com/images/homepage1.jpg

Fly into city, fly over traffic

According to government sources, an elevated road, most probably, a flyover would be constructed between Mehdipatnam and airport having a distance of about 14 km. This is expected to cost over Rs 500 crore and likely to be taken up on built operate and transfer (BOT) basis, it is learnt.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1119529.cms

3 months on: Wider city roads

Friday May 27 2005 09:36 IST
HYDERABAD: The twin cities will witness a number of road widenings and junction improvements in the next three months. A task force will be constituted soon to oversee the road widening works. This was stated by MCH Commissioner Sanjay Jaju at the 10th meeting of the council on Thursday.

He said priority would be given to road widening and junction improvement works. About 30 junctions have been identified for improvement and the works will be taken up soon, he said.

Corporators of different political parties complained that the road widening works taken up by the MCH at various places in the city were going on at a snail’s pace. The MCH Commissioner said steps would be taken to speed up the work progress. He said equal importance would be given to the development of the Old City and the new city.

Yakutpura MLA Mumtaz Ahmed Khan alleged that the MCH was neglecting the development of the Old City. He urged the new commissioner to take steps to develop infrastructural facilities in the old city. Mayor Teegala Krishna Reddy urged the commissioner to involve local corporators in execution of road widening works.

BJP floor leader Shyam Sunder Burugula suggested that the house owners whose properties were acquired for road widening be given the option of selling the additional FSI benefit they got in lieu of it.

A policy on FSI rights should be evolved to protect the interests of the affected house owners, he said. The Mayor promised to look into the matter


Top Priority to widening Roads : New MCH commissioner (http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/27/stories/2005052715680300.htm)

HYDERABAD: Road-widening and junction improvement will be accorded top priority and works will be done in the fast-track mode. "You will see a difference in the next two to three months," said the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad Commissioner, Sanjay Jaju, here on Thursday.

Furure over construction of Flyover (http://www.hindu.com/2005/05/27/stories/2005052715670300.htm)

If a flyover was not being taken up on the busy Ameerpet-S.R. Nagar corridor, it was only because it fell on the proposed metro rail route.

http://www.iagconsultants.com/architecture-new/shopping/e-citi-hyderabad.jpg

A P Gov't revives "Save Musi river" campaign (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/June/subcontinent_June415.xml&section=subcontinent&col=)

famous architect Hafeez Contractor as a consultant to advice the government.

The Rs906.36 crore project would be implemented in two phases of 15 and 30 months through a special purpose vehicle involving the officials from the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad and the Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board.

River Musi, which passes through the heart of Hyderabad dividing it into old and new cities


Landmark State Bank of Hyd., restoration at Gunfoundry (http://www.hindu.com/lf/2005/06/08/stories/2005060817780200.htm)

What catches the eye is its fortress-like entrance and the three arched third floor windows above. The polished granite pillars at the entrance with marble bases and the heavily panelled teak wood doors are a treat to the eye. How much material went into this massive structure? It has over 280 tonnes of steel, 2000 tonnes of cement, some 16,300 sq. ft of marble, 202 sq. ft of armour plate glass, 2580 sq. ft of teak and 310 square yards of carpeting.This is not all. Architect, M. Fayazuddin, took care of security and safety devices too. Some 115 tonnes of reinforcements were used to strengthen the bank's strong rooms.


Chowmohalla Palace restored (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1128274.cms)

The Chowmohalla Palace was amongst the first palaces to be spruced up and opened to the public. Happy with the response, Prince Mukarram Jah decided to restore the Nazri Bagh in Koti as well. Next came the turn of the museums - the Salar Jung museum, a fabulous mine of some the world's best collections, saw a series of changes. Last year, they added two new wings and a few galleries. The AP State Museum at Public Gardens too, is becoming a place of tourist attraction. Till a few years ago, some of the galleries had no power, and the paintings gathered dust. But now, the new galleries and the amphitheatre are wooing crowds galore. Amongst the new galleries opened are the Egyptian, Canon, Jain and the Buddhist. The Jain Gallery is said to be the first of its kinds in the country. Other galleries like the Numismatic and the Holy Relic Gallery are on the anvil, too. Heritage is finally receiving attention and the moolah it deserves.

Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

Located in the outskirts of Hyderabad and spread over an area of 250 acres, the Indian School of Business will be premier management schools in the world. Apart from the academic buildings, the campus includes accommodation for 520 students, 400 capacity auditorium, amphitheatres, swimming pool, gymnasium and state-of-the-art computer and telecom facilities. John Portman & Associates have designed the campus / Hafeez Contractor and WS Atkins are the Project Managers.

http://www.tcgdevelopments.com/gifs/indian-school-of-business-b.jpg

http://www.tcgdevelopments.com/gifs/pic019a.jpg

$12 Billion Semi Conductor Chip center coming up in hyderabad (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/06/27/stories/2005062701780200.htm)

Speaking to newspersons at a the `ground breaking' ceremony for the semi-conductor fab facility, which is expected to cost over $12 billion in the next 15-17 years, Dr Min said the Indian contribution of the total investment would be around $310 million.

Hyderabad does it again but this time very quietly for a change :)

Andhra Pradesh: Home to India's first Nano Tech fab cacility (http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=91719&n_date=20050626&cat=Business)

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy launched work on the $600 million unit at the Rajiv Gandhi Nano Technology Park at Srinagar village in Ranga Reddy district, 30 km from here.

Reddy said: "We are making history today. This project will pave the way for many more new things in the state, and particularly Hyderabad."

With a capacity of making 30,000 chips a month, the unit will manufacture eight-inch fabs.

A total of six fab units are planned at the Park. Nano-Tech Silicon India Pvt. Ltd. (NTSI) will develop the facility.

The unit will require 1,500 direct employees, and supporting companies like semiconductor packaging and test, engineering support, semiconductor materials, equipment and design are likely to generate employment for another 20,000 workers and engineers.

The state's GDP is expected to spiral by $210 million.

Fab facility to come up in 15 months (http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?hpFlag=Y&chklogin=N&autono=192657&leftnm=lmnu9&leftindx=9&lselect=0)

The $600-million phase-1 project is scheduled to be completed within 15-18 months from now. NTSI awarded the contract for basic design and supervision to the Samsung Engineering of Korea on Saturday.

a small pic of the render:)
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/06/27/images/2005062701780201.jpg

One of the main promoters of Nano-Tech Silicon India Pvt Ltd, Dr P. June Min, and the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, at the ground breaking ceremony for the fab facility at Rajiv Gandhi Nano Technology Park in Srinagar village of Ranga Reddy district on Sunday.

Great news

Hopefully this will be the crack in the damn that brings chip fabrication to India in a big way.

There's no reason we can't compete with Taiwan

whats the $12 billion figure for?

time india got a fab facility, though infrastructure needs to improve a lot to attract more. india still is an extremely expensive place to manufacture

whats the $12 billion figure for?

time india got a fab facility, though infrastructure needs to improve a lot to attract more. india still is an extremely expensive place to manufacture

$12 billion over the series of Phase development. but still its a huge sum of investment just for one city & that too in "manufacturing" sector. something indian cities are not known for. hopefully this will trigger a chain reaction into other cities as well.

If you notice. this fab facility is coming up on the 99 mile Outer Ring road thats U/C. & coming up close to the new Hyderabad Int. Airport. this show one thing. This facitlity & this type of investment wouldn't have come up if New airport & Ring road weren't proposed & approved for construction so fast. It would have probably gone to TAIWAN or MALAYSIA as usual.

http://www.deccan.com/Business/Business.asp?#State%20home%20to%20India’s%20first%20fab%20unit

Here is how icing on the cake is done. & this also shows you have to give in a lot to get this type of investment.

The MoU was signed in December last year. To sweeten the pot for Intellect, Inc, the Andhra Pradesh government offered 50 acres of land in Shamshabad on a 30-year lease to the the company.

The government has also offered 10,000 gallons of water per day, and 40 MW of power. More importantly, the government will also be providing an interest subsidy of Rs 35 crores per year for the next 10 years to the project. NTSI awarded the basic design and supervision for the project to Samsung Engineering of Korea on Saturday.

Work on River Musi beautification begins (http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/23/stories/2005062317720300.htm)

These include clean up drive of the riverbed, restoration and repair of the existing old bridges, removing encroachments and fresh carpeting of the abutting road. On its part, the HMWSSB would start calling for tenders on laying the intercepting sewer lines to prevent sewerage from flowing into the river. These lines are to be linked to the proposed sewerage treatment plants.

thats strange..Nano-Tech Silicon India Pvt. Ltd. (NTSI)..which is going to develop this project doesnt even have a website!
great news however, we really need such technology parks, but not all concentrated in one state
I wish I cud work in one of those

@anurag_rulz
I agree, but those ppl will go where the infrastructure and talent is. Now imagine them going to laloo's bihar! :hahaha: They are Hyderabad bcoz the Andhra Govt has been good to them. They have kept their promise of prividing better infra quickly. Other states should learn a valuable lesson from this. I hope babus in other states have enough brains to do this.
Are u an engineer btw?

You are right about the infrastructure point. But the talent point is not neccesarily true. The talent will go where they setup business. Yesterday it was in news that 1/3 number of IIT's study from Kota in Rajasthan. There's talent there too. I think they care more about infrastructure, having a business and hi-tech environement cause they will be dealing with international corporations etc.
And yes the other states definately need a lesson from them. But you can also argue they already took a lesson from them! Look what happened to Chandrababu Naidu. He use to call himself the CEO of AP. He had complaints etc emailed to him. He had teleconfering network will all his administrators. And he still lost the election, cause he didnt do anything for the common man. The babus have enough brains to figure out that! lol

But I agree, they need to catch on. You learn in ECO101 that the point of globalization is to reduce the economic gap. Whereas in India the contrasts and gap is becoming wider day by day. From some of the richest billionaries, to the poorest and most hungry people.

<Sigh> And we have a economist PM!

(Dont get me wrong, I still think he is the best PM we have had)

And to answer your last question, no, not a full engineer yet, engineering student.

Yes. It is rather alarming, the gap between states. In Bihar and Rajasthan, i heard that the growth has been ALMOST ZERO. Maybe I was wrong about the talent part. slip of toung(err fingers :) ). As for Naidu, I would'nt say he did nothing for the common man. Let me give you an example. In AP people faced a lot of difficulties, ESPECIALLY the rural folk in selling land. They had to get clearances(dont know the details) from govt officials, which were, as you would expect, highly corrupt. The average, simple rural guy had to do a hundred days of running around, paying bribes, etc,etc, bieng humiliated, etc before he could get anywhere. Naidu changed all that by removing the control of babus, making things more transparent by "computerising" things, thereby forever making the life of these ppl easy. There are many more examples to be given.

So, not that he did nothing, but people did not know, or understand what he did. I doubt that the new government will even come close to what he did.

Coming back to the topic of this mammoth project, AP was a natural choice, bcoz the state has projected itself that way. Other states have natural resources, AP has HUMAN RESOURCES. Such MEGA projects do a lot of good to states. A lot of jobs, and infra will now be built on Orissa bcoz of that $8 billion steel plant.

So it depends on what CAN BE done in which place. It sould probably stay that way! :)

29A........................You presented valid points there about NAIDU era. Everyone is entitled to their opinion regarding Techno savvy Naidu & against common man image. The most important thing is he computarized major bureaucratic government departments and thus made them "transparent". He made AP tourism into a hugely profitable venture. He turned municipal & Urban development departments professional. him being accused of ignoring rural AP is true to certain extent. The amount of money he was pouring into Hyderabad & Vizag with the eye on Singapore is justified & at times unfair to farmers & rural AP. But nonetheless, his accomplishments are massive & huge & current CM & gov't is walking on the same path of IT, BPO that Naidu set.

I agree with both of you. It is difficult for the common man to understand and see these changes for themselves. Besides how many of them use internet to email complaints ??
Nevertheless, it is good that government changed. Generally, even good leaders change when re-elected. Because they get the idea their policies are accepted and go even harder at them the second time. Like Bush. So you never know what he might have done next. It is good that the new CM will "tone down" a few things. Same goes for the central government. I think it is a good policy to follow, voting anti-incumbent government. Because both will compete to outdo the other. Like it is happeing now. Congress is also pushing through economic reforms to make india "shine" more. So, ultimately this competetiveness is good for the people. For decades under congress raj we had no development cause they kept get re-elected.

Greater Hyderabad: Shape of bigger things to come (http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/02/stories/2005070218350500.htm)

the city is poised to undergo a metamorphosis of sorts, thanks to the concept of Greater Hyderabad given shape by the State Cabinet on Friday.

With major changes in the character, size, boundaries and population, Hyderabad would no longer be the twin cities it was all these days, with 12 poor cousins -- 10 municipalities. The recognition of a mega city would bring more Central funds for the development of the city and for operational purpose, the New Delhi model of having a corporation and a metropolitan council could be followed, he suggested.

Raintree Park
Construction update: MAY 2005

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Rain Tree Park Render:- (not good quality though, but all i cound find :()
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drwho................very nice. finally we see some latest developments. Its coming up nicely.

29A................most of the time, I post anything. posting something is better than posting nothing.

Raintree Park
Construction update: MAY 2005

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A school for netas and babus

http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/12/stories/2005071209120100.htm

More on the Raintree Park

The entire township will consist of Four 5-storey low-rise blocks, Sixteen 7-storey, Six 10-Storey and Eleven 11-storey executive apartment blocks .

Siteplan

http://www.raintreeparkhyd.com/siteplanenlarge.htm

here's another render from www.ijmindia.com

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hindustani> thanks:)

@Hindustani,
eh? what was that?

Raintree Park
Construction update: June 2005

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Sigma Mall, Hyderabad
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Asia's first catheter making unit in Hyderabad

Indo-Asian News Service

Hyderabad, Aug 2 (IANS) This Andhra Pradesh capital is set to house Asia's first catheter manufacturing facility, which will not only bring down the cost of catheter based disposables but could also become an outsourcing hub for multinational companies.

Relisys Medical Devices Limited, a seven-year old company, Tuesday announced that the facility would be ready by December. Trial production is slated to begin by January next year.

The Rs.80 million facility, coming up at Manglapalli village in neighbouring Ranga Reddy district, will have the capacity to produce half a million catheter-based products annually.

To be developed as per US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) norms, it will produce 150,000 to 200,000 diagnostic catheters and 60,000 to 70,000 interventional catheters, used to pass stents to cardiac arteries.

N. Krishna Reddy, cardiologist and chairperson of Relisys, told reporters that Andhra Bank had come forward to extend a term loan of Rs.45 million for the facility.

He later told IANS that the facility would be a big boost to development of medical devices in a country, which presently produces only IV sets. "From the lowest level we are jumping to the sixth level," he said.

Krishna Reddy hoped the facility would cut the prices of catheters by 50 to 70 percent. India imports catheters at prices ranging from Rs.400 to Rs.3,000.

"This facility can not only cater to the region but also become an outsourcing hub for MNCs," he said.

The company also announced the launching of international multi-centre clinical trials of the new version of drug eluting cobalt-chromium stent coated with porous carbon-carbon nano-matrix.

Clinical trials would be conducted at nine centres in India as well as in Brazil, South Korea, Italy and Japan. The company has entered into a worldwide licensing agreement with Blue Membranes GmbH, Germany, for carbon-based drug delivery platform.

The use of porous carbon-carbon nano particle coating will eliminate the use of polymer based platform, thus completely reducing tissue inflammation and reaction (in cardiac arteries).

"Blue-Membranes will enforce the collaboration with Relisys that enables us to exploit our drug-delivery technology. We also aim to integrate manufacturing capabilities of Relisys to provide high quality manufacturing services for integrated solutions," said Soheil Asgari, CEO of Blue-Membranes.

Animal trials of this version of advanced drug eluting stent were recently completed at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, Washington.

The company had earlier completed clinical trials for its first generation drug eluting stent at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Military Hospital, Pune, and Care Hospital, Hyderabad. More than 500 stents have been used since evaluation was completed six months ago.

drwho..............awesome. many thanks. raintree township is coming up fast.

Infosys takes up 100-acre campus in Hyderabad

B Dasarath Reddy in Hyderabad | August 11, 2005 10:19 IST

Infosys is all set to announce plans to set up a huge software development campus over an area not less than 100 acres at a proposed software SEZ in Hyderabad. This can be another landmark in Andhra Pradesh's information technology sector.
NR Narayana Murthy, chief mentor and founder of the company, will be in Hyderabad on Thursday to meet Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy and apprise him of Infosys' plans for the state. He was expected to formally seek land for setting up the IT campus, sources said.

According to sources close to the development, apart from allocating land for the software development facility, the state government may also suggest to Narayana Murthy to be the anchor client or the co-developer of the proposed software SEZ.

The kind of investments the company is proposing to bring into Hyderabad, or the size of investments required for developing the SEZ, is not yet known.

Besides, how much land will be earmarked for the SEZ, which will be the first of its kind in the state, and also its location, are still to be announced by the government.

The new initiatives by the state government include the development of a 2,500-acre SEZ at a hardware park which will house both hardware and software companies besides a product-specific software SEZ at a location yet to be identified.

Infosys has already established its base in Hyderabad with a campus near the Indian School of Business in Madhapur. The expansion plans of Infosys are expected to reinforce the company's presence in Hyderabad's information technology space as a major player in the software development sector.

The government has already offered a huge chunk of land to Wipro at Vattinagulapally near Hyderabad for setting up its campus. Wipro alone is expected to create 30,000 jobs at its proposed campus.


New moves to make State most preferred IT destination

Special Correspondent

2,500-acre SEZ to be set up at Hardware Park

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IT/ITES exports to cross Rs.11,500 crores
Land will be allotted only to large companies
State to develop incubation centres in Tier-II cities
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HYDERABAD: Aiming to achieve a 40 per cent growth in IT/ITES exports and provide additional 30,000 jobs by next year, the Government announced a series of initiatives, including a 2,500-acre Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Hardware Park on the city outskirts and appointment of four nodal officers for Tier-II cities.

The Government intends to make Andhra Pradesh hardware hub of the country by establishing SEZ at the Hardware Park and developing hardware manufacturing cluster for non-SEZ units, the Secretary IT & Communications, K. Ratna Prabha, said here on Tuesday. She further said that the IT/ITES exports were likely to cross Rs. 11,500 crores.

Private land owners will be given incentives to develop IT parks by aggregating 25 acres in the peripheries of a city and five acres in the core area of a city. Such parks will get exemption from urban land ceiling on payment of the prescribed fee and IT companies occupying them will be eligible for 100 per cent re-imbursement of stamp duty and registration fee.

Nodal officers


Stating that the Government envisaged an even geographical spread of the IT industry, she announced the appointment of nodal officers for enabling the growth of IT in Tier-II cities. The following officers will be the single point of contact to the industry: Praveen Kumar (Visakhapatnam & Kakinada) Gopi Krishna (Tirupati), Raghuveer (Warangal), and T.V. Parthasarathi (Vijayawada).

With a projected requirement of 30 million square feet of built space by 2009 for deploying IT industry, she said the Government was initiating a multi-dimensional approach in making real estate available to the industry. It was decided that land will be allotted in Hyderabad only to mega IT companies.

In the Tier-II cities, incubation centres will be developed by the Government and STPI will make available space to entrepreneurs and IT companies. IT towers will be constructed at Visakhapatnam and Tirupati.

She announced that special incentives to Tier-II cities of Rs. 50 lakh subsidy to the first five anchor companies employing 250 persons in IT or 500 employees in ITES. Alternatively, Rs.15 lakhs recruitment assistance will be given for employing 100 persons in IT or 200 in ITES.

Mega Fly-over for Hyderabad soon

By A Business Correspondent

Hyderabad will soon have the distinction of having the longest flyover in the country. Spanning over 16 km, the mega flyover project will be completed in two phases and will be ready within 18 months from the date of commencement of work. Starting from Sanjeevareddy Nagar in the north-west to Malakpet in the south-east, the road junctions covered along this route are Ameerpet, Punjagutta, Erramanzil, Khairatabad, Mozam Jahi Market, Chaderghat and Nalgonda X Roads

According to officials of the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority, the first phase will cover the stretch between Sanjeevareddy Nagar and Khairatabad, a distance of 6.7 km and will cost Rs 148.50 crore. This includes the cost for a flyover on the east-west direction from Greenlands junction (between Begumpet and Somajiguda) to Banjara Hills Road Nos 1&2 crossing the Rajiv Gandhi statue, Punjagutta junction and Nagarjuna Hills junction.

HUDA, which has undertaken the construction of the flyover, had entrusted the feasibility survey to S.N. Bhode & Associates. The technical feasibility survey, preparation of topographic sheets and traffic database for the construction of this phase have been completed and tenders are expected to be invited soon for taking up work for the first phase.

The estimates and drawings for the balance stretch from Khairatabad to Malakpet, a distance of about 9 km, are under preparation.

The development of Hyderabad city has been along the National Highways, particularly the NH-9, which runs from the north-west to the south-east direction. The traffic, therefore, is maximum on this corridor between Sanjeevreddy Nagar and Malakpet.

(16/5/02)

what is the difference between elevated road and longest flyover ?

Mega Fly-over for Hyderabad soon

By A Business Correspondent

Hyderabad will soon have the distinction of having the longest flyover in the country. Spanning over 16 km, the mega flyover project will be completed in two phases and will be ready within 18 months from the date of commencement of work. Starting from Sanjeevareddy Nagar in the north-west to Malakpet in the south-east, the road junctions covered along this route are Ameerpet, Punjagutta, Erramanzil, Khairatabad, Mozam Jahi Market, Chaderghat and Nalgonda X Roads

According to officials of the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority, the first phase will cover the stretch between Sanjeevareddy Nagar and Khairatabad, a distance of 6.7 km and will cost Rs 148.50 crore. This includes the cost for a flyover on the east-west direction from Greenlands junction (between Begumpet and Somajiguda) to Banjara Hills Road Nos 1&2 crossing the Rajiv Gandhi statue, Punjagutta junction and Nagarjuna Hills junction.

HUDA, which has undertaken the construction of the flyover, had entrusted the feasibility survey to S.N. Bhode & Associates. The technical feasibility survey, preparation of topographic sheets and traffic database for the construction of this phase have been completed and tenders are expected to be invited soon for taking up work for the first phase.

The estimates and drawings for the balance stretch from Khairatabad to Malakpet, a distance of about 9 km, are under preparation.

The development of Hyderabad city has been along the National Highways, particularly the NH-9, which runs from the north-west to the south-east direction. The traffic, therefore, is maximum on this corridor between Sanjeevreddy Nagar and Malakpet.

(16/5/02)

YAY!!! But they still need to do a lot more work before they can say that Hyd. has any semblance of an urban freeway system. (which is desperately needed)

Here is the phase I $310 million project aerial view rendering. Its coming up on 8 lane Outer Ring Road that will connect to new Shamshabad airport.

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^^^
Thanks Hindustani!

HIAL plans expressway connectivity to airport


Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (HIAL) is planning to build an elevated expressway connecting the city to the new airport.

“We are in talks with the Government of AP and National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). The expressway will help reducing the congestion on the Masab Tank, Mehdipatnam route that led to the airport. It will also bring down the travel time for the passengers,'' said G Kiran Kumar Grandhi, MD, HIAL.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEB20050823084255&Page=B&Title=Business&Topic=0&

HIAL plans expressway connectivity to airport


Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (HIAL) is planning to build an elevated expressway connecting the city to the new airport.

“We are in talks with the Government of AP and National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). The expressway will help reducing the congestion on the Masab Tank, Mehdipatnam route that led to the airport. It will also bring down the travel time for the passengers,'' said G Kiran Kumar Grandhi, MD, HIAL.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEB20050823084255&Page=B&Title=Business&Topic=0&

F**K YEAH!!! This is just what Hyderabad needs, however I think that some of the roads along the existing route can be upgraded to Freeway standards by way of (a) grade seperation and (b) widening+retaining walls

Good news.

STPs of Durgam Cheruvu, Miralam tank to be ready by December

Staff Reporter

HUDA Chairman inspects lake development projects

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Once the plants are ready, flow of sewage into lakes will be stopped
Both the lakes are categorised as highly polluted
Projects are being taken up under Green Hyderabad Environment Programme
Once the plants are ready, flow of sewage into lakes will be stopped
Both the lakes are categorised as highly polluted
Projects are being taken up under Green Hyderabad Environment Programme
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HYDERABAD: The sewage treatment plants (STPs) of highly polluted Durgam Cheruvu and Mir Alam tank will be ready by December.

The Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) Chairman, D. Sudheer Reddy, and the Vice-Chairman, Jayesh Ranjan, inspected the lake development projects taken up under the Green Hyderabad Environment Programme and reviewed their progress on Monday.

Once the STPs are ready, direct flow of sewage into lakes would be stopped and only treated sewage would be let into the lakes improving the water quality.

Speaking to media persons at the Durgam Cheruvu STP site, Mr. Sudheer Reddy said that the sewage generated from the colonies in the catchment i.e. Guttalabegumpet, Madhapur and Jubilee Hills flowed into the lake for years making it one of the highly polluted in the city.

Both the lakes were categorised as highly polluted based on high values of Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), total nitrates and phosphorous.

The 5 MLD STP coming up in three-acre site would initially handle 2 MLD sewage that was at present being generated in the area. The HUDA was the first agency to introduce tertiary treatment technology as the sewage treated would be close to potable quality, said Mr. Jayesh Ranjan. The Rs. 8.73 crores plant being executed by UEM India Limited, would have a `collection well' where all the raw sewage would be first collected then sent to `screen and grid' chamber, then to `denitrification' chamber, `aeration unit' with fine pore diffused membrane to avoid odour nuisance and finally to the `rapid sand filter' unit and finally chlorination.

Excess sewage would be taken to the downstream through a diversion channel with a good sewer network in place. The HUDA has asked the APIIC to part fund the Rs. 2.5 crores diversion channel.

Mr. Sudhir Reddy said that the Mir Alam tank would have 10 MLD STP and a park is being developed as a major attraction for Old City on a 10 acre land along the shore line. Another park near the Noor Mohd. Kunta would come up in five acres. The Rs. 15 crores project would be ready by December and a peripheral bund with fencing was almost complete to prevent further encroachments.

A diversion channel was also planned to take excess sewage to the downstream. At present about 5 MLD of sewage was generated from nearby residential areas in the catchment of the tank.

Has this been posted before?

Saket Towers
18+ storeys

http://www.saketgroup.com/

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Raintree Park
Construction update: July 2005
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Caption: Construction of multi storied state-of-the-art apartments in Hyderabad resembles Singapore Township. Photo: D. Gopalakrishnan 21/09/2005

Construction of multi storied state-of-the-art apartments in Hyderabad resembles Singapore Township. Photo: D. Gopalakrishnan 21/09/2005

Cool update DrWho!!

:)

drwho,Suncity...................thats awesome. What more there I believe 12 or more huge townships planned on upcomming Outer Ring Road which is expanded from 159km to 167km now.

sun thanks:)

hindustani> cool...that means hopefully we will get more pics of them:)

HIAL plans expressway connectivity to airport


Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (HIAL) is planning to build an elevated expressway connecting the city to the new airport.

“We are in talks with the Government of AP and National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). The expressway will help reducing the congestion on the Masab Tank, Mehdipatnam route that led to the airport. It will also bring down the travel time for the passengers,'' said G Kiran Kumar Grandhi, MD, HIAL.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEB20050823084255&Page=B&Title=Business&Topic=0&

YEAH!!. good news!. Every good quality airport must have such a facility. I dont think any other airport in the country will have such exclusive connectivity. Other cities must emulate. Now if only they can change the rather boring design of the airport itself. If only........

This may have been posted before...

LT Infocity's Serene County project

The township is spread over 31.59 Acres

Layout

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Elevation

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^ Ew.. ugly buildings

Software product-specific SEZs to come up near Hyderabad

Our Regional Bureau / Hyderabad October 03, 2005

The Andhra Pradesh government has announced plans to create two software product-specific special economic zones (SEZs) near Hyderabad.

Of the two SEZs, one would come up at Pappalguda village in a 200-acre land owned by the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (Huda) and the other would be located near the international airport at Shamshabad where part of the 1,200-acre land is in possession of the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC).

This apart, another 2,500 acres under the 5,000-acre land being acquired by APIIC in the same vicinity will be earmarked for allotment to ICT industry, both software and hardware, in the second phase, K Ratna Prabha, secretary to government, Information Technology & Communication (IT&C) department, said here in a press release. According to her, part of the 1,200-acre land would be developed as a hardware/electronic product-specific SEZ.

The development of these SEZs will primarily be led by private investors and developers who would undertake international class and scale of infrastructure development, she said.

Apart from the central incentives available for SEZs, the state government would also extend a set of incentives and facilities to the developers and the units. According to the press release, the area incorporated in the proposed SEZ is free from environmental pollution.

The incentives include full exemption in electricity duty and tax on sale of electricity for self-generated and purchased power, permission to generate and supply power within SEZ, exemption from state sales tax, octroi, mandi tax, turnover tax, duty, cess, levies on supply of goods from domestic tariff area to SEZ units.

Powers under the Industrial Disputes Act and other related Acts would be delegated to the Development Commissioner among other things.

She said that the demand for allotment of land from IT companies as well as the projected requirement of built-up office space for software industry in the near future have necessitated steps such as software SEZs in Hyderabad.

Companies like Google, Sanota, Intelli Asia, Celestica, Patni Computers, DQ Entertainment, Knoah Solutions, Boston Consulting Group, Vorizon and Qualcomm, which already employ more than 1,000 people each and also intend to expand their operations by investing not less than Rs 50 crore, are in the waiting list for land allotment.

In order to achieve the target of Rs 69,000 crore in IT exports by 2009, a total of 40 million square feet of built-up office space is required. Of this, at present 10 million square feet is available and another six million square feet is in the pipeline.

Therefore, the additional requirement by 2009 would be 24 million square feet requiring a gross land of 1,500 acres, according to the IT&C department.

So far, 670 acres of land has been allotted to ICT industry to build their own campuses and IT parks. IT park developers have created a ready-to-occupy office space of more than three million square feet for software companies in Hyderabad, the press release said.


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Govt may opt for new developer for Manikonda IT park

B Dasarath Reddy / Hyderabad October 01, 2005



The Andhra Pradesh government may initiate a fresh process to choose a new developer for Manikonda IT park at Hyderabad in case Lanco Infratech Private Limited, the highest bidder, delays in paying the bid amount.

According to government sources, the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) may give a one-month notice to Lanco before taking alternative steps to find a new developer for the IT park, proposed to be developed in a 108-acre land.

Lanco Infratech, which shot into fame overnight by bidding more than Rs 2 crore per acre for Manikonda IT park failed to pay the mandatory 50 per cent bid amount as a deposit to APIIC even after receiving the allotment letter. Bids were opened in May 2005.

Chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who held a review meeting on the progress of new IT parks, instructed the IT&C department to intimate a new time frame to Lanco for compliance with the bid rules and start the process to choose a new developer in case the company fails to respond within the stipulated period.

Though efforts to contact Lanco officials for their views on the issue did not succeed, government officials, however, said they were not optimistic about a positive response from the company.

The rates quoted for the land by Lanco Infratec is considered to be much higher as compared to the current market prices in this area. APIIC has fixed just Rs 60 lakh a acre as the upset price for this park at the time of bidding. And this, the officials feels might be the reason for Lanco “backing out”.

Meanwhile, DLF, which came as the second highest bidder for Rayadurg IT park in Hyderabad too has backed out as it had to meet the price quoted by Lanco. Lanco quoted more than Rs 4 crore per acre for this 37.5 acre land. It is said that Divyasree Group has come forward to develop the Rayadurg IT park.

At the meeting, the Government also approved a proposal to develop a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for software companies in a 2,500 acre area near the Hardware park at Shamshabad International Airport.

Besides, the meeting approved a proposal put up by the state IT&C department to earmark 200 acre Huda(Hyderabad Urban Development Authority) land in Pappalaguda village in Ranga Reddy district for the allotment of land to new IT companies.

It may be recalled that APIIC invited tenders for the proposed three IT parks at Manikonda, Vattinagulapally and Rayadurg, and one in Vizag early this year.

In the present case, Lanco stood as the top most contender across the board. According to the tender rules, a bidder can choose only one IT park in Hyderabad even if he emerges as the successful bidder for more than one project. Accordingly, Lanco chose Manikonda IT park.

Old City roads widened without approval
KORIDE MAHESH

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, OCTOBER 03, 2005 01:49:11 AM ]

HYDERABAD: Despite a government order making it mandatory the prior approval of Heritage Conservation Committee for demolishing properties in the Old City, even if they are private properties, municipal authorities are busy with the road-widening work around the historic Charminar without waiting for the panel's consent.

A total of 1,100 private properties will be affected by the Charminar Pedestrianisation Project (CPP) which includes the construction of 10 inner and outer ring roads. A total of 36 private properties located within 100 metres of the monument will also be acquired for creating a buffer zone.

Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) has already acquired some of the properties and efforts are on to acquire the rest. But only eight of the 10road proposals have got consent from the Heritage Conservation Committee (HCC) which is mandatory as per the GO issued in 2000.

Though CPP was proposed in 1999-2000, road widening was taken up only a few months ago. About 150 properties were either demolished or the MCH got consent for demolition from their owners in the past four months.

The MCH wants to widen the inner ring road to allow free movement of two-wheelers and proposes an outer ring road for buses and other four-wheelers. Once the two roads are completed, the area near the monument will be declared as 'pedestrian zone' and no movement of vehicles will be allowed in the vicinity.

It was proposed that the inner ring road from Gulzar Houz to Panjeshah road would be widened to 60 ft from the existing 20 and 30 fts, while the outer ring road would have 80 ft width.

But with the residents protesting the acquisition of their properties in the name of widening the Chowk road to 60 ft, MCH whittled down the width to 40 ft.

Later, it was again reduced to 30 ft, with an extension plan of another 10 ft, if the traffic flow increases in the future.

However, the proposal to widen the Chowk road is yet to get the clearance of the heritage committee. Even the CPP buffer zone is awaiting consent.


Quietly flows the river Musi
KAVITHA SREEKUMAR

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2005 09:03:41 PM ]

The government has begun an ambitious project to revive the Musi. But is it enough?

The river Musi, named after Moses, is on the path of rejuvenation. According to officials, the government is pumping in Rs 906 crore towards the same. We tried to find out the antecedents of the river, which has witnessed the transformation of our city from being the land of minarets to an IT and ITES hub.

Dr K Jawahar Reddy, managing director of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board and acting vice-chairman of HUDA, informs, "It will take another two years before we see the revival of life in the river. Sewage treatment plants are being set up at Amberpet and Nagole."

Sewage water that is flown into the river would be diverted to the treatment plants. The treated water would then be allowed to reenter the river. "The project envisages the use of Musi water for both agricultural and industrial purposes," he adds.

The government is also planning to give the banks of the river a facelift. Plans are on to set up IT complexes, five star hotels and malls along the banks.

But environmentalists are concerned. Capt J Rama Rao of the Forum For Better Hyderabad points out that this might have adverse ecological impact on the river's course.

Historians also point out another interesting aspect. Dr Sadiq Naqvi, who has authored books on Hyderabad, says there's a river similar to Musi in Isphan, Iran, and this 800-year-old waterway still manages to retain its old charm.

How does Isphan treat its river? Informs M Vedakumar of the Forum For Better Hyderabad, who has visited Isphan twice, "The river there carries clean water and the wooden bridges, which are more than 800 years old, are intact. Also, pedastrianisation projects have been carried out in the heritage areas.

People of Isphan celebrate the river. And from any place in the city, one can hear the noise of the running water, which is let through small channels through the city."

As far as the Musi is concerned, environmentalists feel that beautification needs to be done right from the river's origin, in Anantgiri hills.

(With inputs from Iranian Consulate)

IVRCL plans Rs 200cr complex (http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu1&leftindx=1&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=202734)

IVRCL is planning to build a huge multipurpose commercial complex facility with 16 lakh square feet of space at a cost of around Rs 200 crore at Gachibowli.

“The company has appointed architects Bentel of South Africa to design the project, which would be ready in the next three-four months,” E Sudhir Reddy said, adding that the project would be ready in two years’ time from now.

Coming up in a 12-acre site on the Sports complex-Infosys-Microsoft Road, the complex will be designed to accommodate a range of commercial operations including ITeS companies, he said.

“We expect over 40,000 footfalls from this little corridor alone by the time the project is ready,” Reddy said. The company’s integrated residential township and software giants like Infosys and Microsoft, which are in the expansion mode, are expected to provide the basic customer base for the commercial operations in this complex.

The facility will have a huge parking space that would accommodate 3,000 cars.

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drwho...................That Raintree township seems to be topping off. :)

drwho................that raintree township is looking good now

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Pragati Resorts

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wow, a 100-acre campus for hyd!!!


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and also, Dell is opening a global development centre in hyd.

come on guys, post something.

come on guys, post something.

Here you go...

Microsoft and TCS also expanding their Hyderabad operations:

http://us.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/26tcs.htm

The "Genome Valley" of Hyderabad is not just rumors. it actually has some real stuff. many biotech companies have already set foot in this zone. The ICICI Knowledge and the SP Biotech Park are two distinct parks in this SEZ. Many research institutions are setting up facilities and the infrastructure is world-class. A research institution which is a collaboration between the NIH of the US and the ICMR of India is also setting foot in hyderabad. Matrix labs, shanta biotech, Biological Evans, etc already have their R&D labs here.

Also, the US Pharmacopoeia, the US institution which sets standards for medicinal drugs' quality has opened USP-India subsidiary in the ICICI Park. that's some big news because this is it's first facility outside the US and there are some 130 countries which follow the regulations of the USP. after the India facility is open, companies from this part of the world will be under the guidance of the india subsidiary. that is a news of prestige.

I don't believe this was posted earlier

DLF to invest Rs 600 cr in IT park, township (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/10/07/stories/2005100702101900.htm)

Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Oct. 6

DLF Universal Ltd., the real estate developer, has announced its plans to develop a Rs 600-crore integrated township at Hyderabad spread over 26.3 acre site.

This project has envisaged four million square feet of integrated township including IT Park at Gachibowli, off Old Mumbai road opposite CMC.

The IT park component of the integrated township is expected to be developed in a phased manner with the first phase set to be completed by mid-2006.

The DLF Group spokesperson in a statement here said, "Hyderabad, in the last decade has evolved as one of the hottest IT destinations in India. With a literacy rate of 71 per cent, Hyderabad churns out 3,50,000 graduates every year and offers a large pool of educated and talented workforce engaged in IT and ITES sector."

The company plans to develop residential, retail and recreational facilities that would include a five star hotel, multiplexes and service apartments apart from offering top-notch facilities for IT companies.

The IT park will also host other facilities such as food courts.

Designed by architect Hafeez Contractor, the DLF's IT Park would have workspace offering an integrated area combining work and leisure.

The IT park would be located opposite the CMC facility and near ISB, Infosys and Microsoft campuses.

any renderings?

Obelisk, Hyderabad. Made by the same company that made Noida Tower.

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It is in my opinion the coolest skyscraper project in India right now, hope it gets built! Anyone know anything more about it? Is it proposed or just a vision by the company?

Old City roads widened without approval
It was proposed that the inner ring road from Gulzar Houz to Panjeshah road would be widened to 60 ft from the existing 20 and 30 fts, while the outer ring road would have 80 ft width.

But with the residents protesting the acquisition of their properties in the name of widening the Chowk road to 60 ft, MCH whittled down the width to 40 ft.

Later, it was again reduced to 30 ft, with an extension plan of another 10 ft, if the traffic flow increases in the future.


I don't know Hyderabad at all and I was just reading through this thread. Is this report wrong or is the Inner Ring road really so narrow ? How can you have a 60 ft road and call it a ring road ? And this report also mentions that at stretches it is 20 and 30 ft road. 20 ft road is just about enough for a single lane traffic. Only streets about 100m long could be 30 ft wide.

Also, I read that length of Outer ring road was recently changed from about 100 km to 160 km. Isn't that bad news ? That only means outer ring road is pushed further away from city making it less important and less viable. I doubt anyone would use this road for next 20 years. Hyderabad is about 200 sq km. Thatz a radius of just about 8 km which I think is the existing alingment of ring road. If Outer ring road is 160 km long, thatz a radius of 25 km. That would mean the city should expand to 2000 sq km. Even to use this ring road meaningfully, Hyderabad metro size should be about 1000 sq km. Thatz 5 times existing city size and probably 3 times existing metro size. To grow this big, it would take some 20-30 years of fast growth.

I don't know Hyderabad at all and I was just reading through this thread. Is this report wrong or is the Inner Ring road really so narrow ? How can you have a 60 ft road and call it a ring road ? And this report also mentions that at stretches it is 20 and 30 ft road. 20 ft road is just about enough for a single lane traffic. Only streets about 100m long could be 30 ft wide.

Also, I read that length of Outer ring road was recently changed from about 100 km to 160 km. Isn't that bad news ? That only means outer ring road is pushed further away from city making it less important and less viable. I doubt anyone would use this road for next 20 years. Hyderabad is about 200 sq km. Thatz a radius of just about 8 km which I think is the existing alingment of ring road. If Outer ring road is 160 km long, thatz a radius of 25 km. That would mean the city should expand to 2000 sq km. Even to use this ring road meaningfully, Hyderabad metro size should be about 1000 sq km. Thatz 5 times existing city size and probably 3 times existing metro size. To grow this big, it would take some 20-30 years of fast growth.


The current ring road is not fully developed. I would say that approximately half the entire circumference was completed and it wasn't completed in a single stretch. There were stretches were land acquisition ran into legal issues (such as areas in and around the old city) and so, the existing roads were used as connector roads and those were considered to be part of the ring road. It is these stretches that are very narrow, but most of the ring road is 3 lanes on either side (not sure of the exact width).

The administrative area of the muncipal corporation of Hyderabad may be about 200 sq km, but the urban agglomeration has far exceeded that area. HUDA (Hyderabad Urban Development Authority) administers an area of 2000 sq km and I think thats great because it can govern the expansion of the city upto 2000 sq km. The city limits have grown way beyond the current ring road. No city expands symmetrically as a circle. It spikes off in a few directions, usually along highways and major roads. I can certainly say that the distance (as the crow flies) between 2 opposite corners of the city goes beyond 50 km at times.

The 160 km ring road is not unrealistic, but very futuristic. There definitely would be some empty pockets inside the ring where the city still hasn't expanded, but the ring road would go a long way in spreading the city out. Transportation constraints are the main reason why most Indian cities are congested and grow more vertically than horizontally. Even with this 25 km radius road, I wouldn't be sure that everything that is considered to be Hyderabad would lie inside the ring :-))

also, there are going to be expressways connecting the ORR to other major roads and inner parts of the area. this is really good especially because travel time is a major concern in Hyd. it takes about an hour and half to travel from the central part of the city to shamshabad where the new airport is coming up. it's even worse if you live in the northern part of city.

i've also seen that the MCH is aiming at increasing the average speed inside the city limits from 14 Km/hr to 20 Km/hr by the end of this year. when the ORR and the connecting network of roads/expressways are completely functional, the officials are looking at 25-28 Km/hr average speed.

this is to be achieved by the end of 2008, hopefully.

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Hyderabad to have its own twin towers

Omer Farooq / Hyderabad

The Andhra Pradesh Government has given its nod to building twin towers worth half a billion dollars on the outskirts of Hyderabad as part of the business district project.


The twin towers with 60 floors will come up at Manchirevula village, not far from Shamshabad, where the new international airport is being built. The twin towers would be surrounded by several other buildings housing information technology offices and other sun rise industries, the official sources said.


The Rs 2,000 crore project would be developed by the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation in public-private partnership mode.


The idea has made brisk progress and the 97 acres of land has also been acquired for the purpose. The APIIC is now in the process of calling for expression of interest from the eligible private sector companies at the international level. The corporation will also seek the services of a consultant for the project.


The officials hope that the project would epitomise the thrust the State Government is giving to the infrastructure and other facilities in and around Hyderabad.


The twin towers surrounded by 10 other multi storied buildings will be one of the several projects the State Government has envisaged for the development over the next few years. Other projects include a knowledge corridor spread over 20,000 acres. The State Government has signed an MoU with the Government of Dubai for the development of this project. The Dubai Government is likely to come up with its detailed report on this proposal this month.

A proper CBD in HYDERABAD?!?!?!? HOLY SHIT!!! Are they going to fiannly revive Hafeez's 220m Obelisk?

The only real concern of mine is that theyre gonna build high-rises near Shamshabad, near the site of a u/c airport. but hey, it's a great idea! And one that is DESPEREATELY NEEDED

When will it be done?

also, there are going to be expressways connecting the ORR to other major roads and inner parts of the area. this is really good especially because travel time is a major concern in Hyd. it takes about an hour and half to travel from the central part of the city to shamshabad where the new airport is coming up. it's even worse if you live in the northern part of city.

i've also seen that the MCH is aiming at increasing the average speed inside the city limits from 14 Km/hr to 20 Km/hr by the end of this year. when the ORR and the connecting network of roads/expressways are completely functional, the officials are looking at 25-28 Km/hr average speed.

this is to be achieved by the end of 2008, hopefully.

Where did u hear about these prupored plans to introduce urban freeways in Hyderabad? I need a link, and a recent one too. After all, the only thing I've been hearing about is this ORR peripheral freeway and a 16km airport freeway to Shamshabad or something.

Awesome! 0 to 60 in one year ;)

Go Hyderabad!

That's very interesting news!!!

:)

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Thanks for the update DrWho.

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Awesome! 0 to 60 in one year ;)

Go Hyderabad!

u mean 16 to 60. Hyd's current tallest is the Babukhan tower in Basheerbagh.

I know

But 16 to 60 wouldn't sound as good ;)

Thanks for the update DrWho.

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thanks:)

i saw that news in HIndu months ago about connecting expressways. and also recent graphics of the project in hindu but that's a couple of months ago.
sorry, should've stated the uncertainty of that report. but i def saw an item with graphic pictures of the project.

60 floors is great!!!!!!!!! just these two towers or any other buildings around these two?

where is the raintree park?

Wow!!.............60 stories is huge & that too 2wins. I hope its not identical twins.

AP rolls out Outer Ring Road Project at Hyderabad
Updated: 11-23-2005 By andhracafe Email this Page

The Andhra Pradesh government will soon roll out the Outer Ring Road (ORR) project of Hyderabad with an estimated cost of nearly Rs 9000 crore.

The ORR project includes the eight-lane ring road with interchanges and approach roads, basic infrastructure facilities for the development of a 20,000-sq km knowledge corridor near Madhapur and a bundle of about 25 townships. The ORR project would be handed over to a single international association for execution.

The basic report along with the master plan for the ORR project, is being prepared at its own cost by the Department of Economic Development, Government of Dubai, under a recent MoU with the Andhra Pradesh government. The basic cost, rate of return and the viability requirements to be proposed by the Dubai government would be allowed to be challenged by the other pre-qualified bidders under the ‘Swiss Challenge’ method.

The state government has decided to execute the entire stretch of approximately 165-km long 8-lane Outer Ring Road (ORR) at one go and is expected to be provided within two years coinciding with the completion of the new international airport in March 2008.

Besides the existing national and state highway points, about 22-23 radial roads are proposed to be developed to connect the core of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (MCH) area to the outer ring road, providing access points at every 8 km distance along the ORR.

Several abroad companies, including Japan, Malaysia, Czhekoslovakia and Singapore have showed interest in taking part in the pre-qualification process along with some Chinese companies.


Charminar develops `air cracks' on outer surface

J.S. Ifthekhar

ASI to take up repairs to the monument at a cost of Rs. 10 lakhs

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Moss and lichen growth has occurred on the walls facing the mosque
Steps leading to the upper portions of the monument are also damaged
Damage is not of serious nature, says Superintending Archaeologist, ASI
Chemical wash of Charminar has also been planned simultaneously
ASI to document the whole thing by taking pictures of damaged portions
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TAKING A BEATING: Historic Charminar is in need of repairs following damages due to rain and pollution. Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

Hyderabad: The city's most famous icon — Charminar — is sick again. Minarets of the hoary monument have developed `air cracks' at some places. Moss and lichen growth has occurred on the walls facing the mosque on the second floor. The steps leading to the upper portions are also damaged.

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which maintains the 415-year-old structure, has decided to take up operation repair at a cost of Rs. 10 lakhs.

Chemical wash of Charminar has also been planned simultaneously. The mending of the monument is expected to take at least six months.

"We propose to take up the repair during the next financial year. Movement of visitors will be restricted wherever required," said D. Jithendra Das, Superintending Archaeologist, ASI.

Water seepage

He told The Hindu that the damage was not of serious nature. A recent inspection showed that foundation of the monument was strong and there were no cracks at the basement level.

The air cracks might be the result of climatic change.

Heavy rains that lashed the city recently were believed to have precipitated matters.

The seepage of rainwater and the dampness would have caused the air cracks.

However, the cracks were only on the outer surface and there was no cause for worry, Dr. Das said. During 2001 one of the minarets had suffered damage. Small pieces of stucco fell from the 54-metre minar facing Mecca Masjid and the ASI immediately swung into action.

Movement of visitors

The damage of steps leading to the second floor was said to be on account of movement of visitors.

For long the monument was closed for public. It was thrown open only in February 2003.

The ASI has decided to document the whole thing by taking close pictures of every damaged portion. The repair would be carried out using the traditional mortar, which was originally employed in construction of the monument.

Pollution levels

The ASI has also planned to make a fresh study of the pollution levels in and around Charminar. The major damage to the monument was on account of vibrations caused by relentless movement of vehicles around it. Heavy traffic movement, particularly the fleet of RTC buses, which make about 2,000 trips touching the monument, has been a cause of concern.

Recently, some of the buses have been diverted in the downward direction as part of the Charminar Pedestrianisation Project.

Survey planned

A survey would be made to find out possible reduction in automobile pollution and vibrations, Dr. Das said.


`Swiss Challenge` to select Outer Ring Road bidder

B Dasarath Reddy / Hyderabad November 23, 2005

The Andhra Pradesh government is going to adopt the ‘Swiss Challenge’ method for selection of a developer for the Outer Ring Road (ORR) project of Hyderabad.

The entire project, which is now estimated to cost anywhere between Rs 8,000 crore and Rs 9,000 crore, would be handed over to a single international consortium for execution.

Explaining the rationale behind adopting the ‘Swiss Challenge’ method, L V Subrahmanyam, vice-chairman and managing director of Infrastructure Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (INCAP), said: “We want to have a partner with us at the project’s conceiving stage itself. You cannot just tender the work of this proportion to somebody and relieve yourself of your responsibility. That cannot work here.”

The basic report along with the master plan for the ORR project, which is being prepared at its own cost by the Department of Economic Development, Government of Dubai, under a recent MoU with the Andhra Pradesh government, is expected to be ready by March-April 2006. The project report would form the basis for initiating pre-qualification process.

As part of its basic premise of government-to-government understanding for the development of the ORR project, the state government has signed an MoU with Dubai for preparation of the project report.

The basic cost, rate of return and the viability requirements to be proposed by the Dubai government would be allowed to be challenged by the other pre-qualified players and then the former would be given a chance to match the latter’s offer under the ‘Swiss Challenge’ method.

The government would offer nothing to the successful bidder except some land along the proposed outer ring road which it can utilise for development of clusters or townships as a source of return on investment.

It has already issued orders for creating a land bank where all the vacant land belonging to various departments would be pooled up and utilised as per the priorities to be determined by a separate three-member official committee.

Whichever company or consortium pitches for less land will emerge as the successful bidder, the Incap managing director said. The allocation of land for cluster development forms part of cost recovery mechanism for the project as the outer ring road would be toll-free.

As per the self-imposed norm of government-to-government understanding, the state government would insist on a government-led consortium or company or any other body of a country to execute the project. Further, Incap would also prepare a detailed project report (DPR) of its own to avoid the possibility of padding up the project costs.

According to government officials, companies from several countries, including Japan, Malaysia, Czhekoslovakia and Singapore have already evinced interest in taking part in the pre-qualification process. Some Chinese companies have also made initial enquiries with Incap about the project recently.

The ORR project, to be christened ‘Greater Hyderabad Growth Corridor’ project, has three basic components, which, according to the officials, are inseparable from each other to ensure viability of the project.

The three components include the eight-lane ring road with interchanges and approach roads, basic infrastructure facilities for the development of a 20,000-sq km knowledge corridor near Madhapur and clusters of about 25 townships.

Not to leave any scope for delay that could potentially affect the viability of the project, the state government has decided to execute the entire stretch of approximately 165-km long 8-lane Outer Ring Road (ORR) at one go.

This means the basic road facility or access is expected to be provided within two years coinciding with the completion of the new international airport in March 2008. The proposed road, which provides non-stop entry and exit points to the fully access controlled ORR along with interchanges, will be built in another one to one-and-half-year as they require careful and aesthetically appealing design and execution, officials said.

The project is expected to bring a qualitative shift in the development of Hyderabad as it will enable horizontal expansion of the city which has vast extent of open lands available around it, with wider roads and better houses at lower cost.

“Vertical spread has proved disastrous for Hyderabad which is already under severe stress on the infrastructure front. Moreover, with the ORR, distance will not become a great disadvantage,” Subrahmanyam said while stating that the project is being designed to enable any person from any part of the city to reach the international airport within one hour.

Besides the existing national and state highway points, about 22-23 radial roads are proposed to be developed to connect the core of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (MCH) area to the outer ring road, keeping in line with the idea of providing access points at every 8 km distance along the ORR.

"The Real Hyderabad Tower is Taking a BEATING as we speak"

what does that mean?

access points at every 8 km distance is a great idea and will def improve the city's infrastructure leaps and bounds. i can't wait to see people traveling 30 km in an hour. hopefully that can happen after this project is completely finished.

"The Real Hyderabad Tower is Taking a BEATING as we speak"

Charminar is getting screwed :(.

thanks for answering.
i figured that after i read that entire post. steps should have been taken a long time ago. but even now if the can create more space in the immediate vicinity of the monument..... like say 80-100 ft in all directions..... we might be able to save it for coming generations. and def something has to be done to stop the pollution from vehicles or else looking at the traffic levels and the rate at which this building is deteriorating, we won't have it standing for a long time from now.

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Directorate of Town and Country Planning, Hyderabad
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Looking at this, it really doesn't seem like any other city is as ready as hyderabad. and also the project has already taken off. land acquired, all plans approved, the basic infrastructural setup is also fastly being built.
i mean, seriously, a power project has been exclusively proposed and work has started on it. i think such promptness is found in no other indian cities.


CM meets PM over Fab-City

The CM YS Rajashekar Reddy met the PM Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Monday. He urged the PM to establish the Fab-City in Hyderabad. The PM assured to look into the request. It is believed that the center is inclined favorably to the setting up of the Fab-City in Hyderabad. Five states including AP are vying for this prestigious project.


The center has zeroed in on AP as its meets with all the requirements like weather, water, power, connectivity and availability of trained manpower. Andhra Pradesh has also offered more concessions that states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.

AP has already acquired 5,000 acres of land and will also promote an exclusive 600mw power project for the purpose. A private fab unit promoted by Nano Tech Solutions Limited is fast coming up at the Rajiv Gandhi Nano Technology Park at Hyderabad.

http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu2&leftindx=2&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=207520


it seems like the people from Semindia really want the FabCity in Hyderabad.




SemIndia seeks national semiconductor policy

Urges YSR to take up the issue with the Centre

Our Regional Bureau / Hyderabad December 06, 2005
SemIndia Limited, incorporated by a consortium of companies and NRIs for the purpose of establishing a Fab City in India, has urged the Centre to come out with a national policy for the semiconductor industry before the project shapes up.

It also wants the policy to be framed in line with the policy framework adopted by China and Taiwan.

Seeking a slew of incentives and subsidies from the Andhra Pradesh government for setting up a Fab City in Hyderabad, Vinod Agarwal, president and CEO of SemIndia, urged chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy to impress upon the Union government the need for formulating a semiconductor policy when he met the latter yesterday.

With the chip manufacturing industry not yet making an entry into the country, there are hardly any policy guidelines to support projects like Fab City, though the Government of India has decided to hold equity in the project.

By proposing to have a policy at the Central level, SemIndia is making it clear that it needs much more support than what it could get from any investment-hungry state.

Sources in the government said that besides promising to match the incentives offered by any other competing state, the chief minister YSR had promised SemIndia officials that he would take up the issue of policy requirements with the Centre.

A semiconductor policy on the lines of China and Taiwan meant that all the infrastructure required for setting up a fab project should be made available to the promoters of the project free of cost, government officials felt. A fab city requires about 60 mw power and about 50 million gallons per day (MGD) of water once it becomes fully operational.

According to sources, SemIndia's wish list included free land, water and power for the proposed project and sales tax exemption.

The state government has already offered 1,500 acres of land for the project. As regards other concessions, the officials said that the state government would take a decision on the basis of merit and permissibility.

The chief minister asked the SemIndia CEO to submit a detailed proposal with all the requirements and requests to the officials, which would be put before the State Investment Promotion Board (SIPB) for a final view.

“SemIndia officials are positively inclined towards Hyderabad as the city offers them other benefits too. For instance, the sulphur dioxide content in the air is very low in Hyderabad as compared to Chennai,” C S Rao, CEO of APInvest, which has been designated as a nodal agency for the Fab City proposal, told Business Standard.

Competition among states was always considered good for progress, as long as it was restricted to improving the quality of life of citizens. But happenings, such as the recent show-of-power by Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy staking claim for the mega, billion dollar Fab City project, are indicative of an emerging trend of unhealthy competition.

According to sources, Dr Reddy is unhappy with the way TN is also trying to hijack the Volkswagen car project. “They are offering sops, knowing fully well that the company is seriously looking for alternative locations (after dropping the original site in Visakhapatnam) either in Hyderabad or Tada in Nellore district, just 76km from Chennai.

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=110601

that's probably true. but that's what maran's doing. so i guess it's all even now. and anyways, the company responsible for this investment, Semindia, itself is supporting Hyderabad and YSR's bid.

Yeah what is Maran doing? I would really like to know

You just read the article which said about the reasons why the fab city has to come to hydrebad, and we had enough discussions on how external humidity is not a factor. YSR gives all kinds nonsense like threatening to go voilent. I havent seen Maran or Jayalalitha do anything like this. YSR thinks he is in a movie.

I am not against the fab city coming to Hydrebad. What bothers me is, u guys are not giving the credit which chennai deserves and rather giving credit to politicians like Maran.

i thought we had a pretty big discussion about that in the TN infrastructure and economy thread.

Nobody gave me facts and figures about Maran forcing companies into chennai. Everybody liked to whine about it though.

I would say YSR is forcing the fab city into hydrebad. Its great for the people of hydrebad and its good for AP. U cant say that maran did something like this for chennai.

YSR is forcing fab city into chennai.

i think u have a typo there.

when the intel project first came into limelight a long time ago, maran's choice was very clear although he didn't make any overt statements about it. and he did project chennai as the most favorable city.

and also, i have nothing against chennai or TN. i would want this project to come in Hyd, but ultimately India is going to benefit and that's more important than the location. finally, India is being considered as a favorable destination for hardware manufacturing. that's really good for the future of the country.

Yeah! heheheh a typo....

What maran did was he was showing Intel what chennai was capable of. Intel went and looked at many other cities before they decided on chennai. They took their time in deciding it. Maran was gaining a political mileage for DMK for the elections in April by saying stuff that he got Intel. Man ..... Craig Barrett is not going to go where maran's finger points to. Those guys decide for themselves. Maybe Craig would return a finger back...heheh

I agree that Maran to some extent removed the perception over chennai and showed the reality.( Chennai always had a bad perception compared to reality) But should'nt that any IT minister be doing for any city in the country? It is his job.

I have told this before...IT FDI are happening all around the country.

Although CBN dint do much for the rest of the state, YSR can never be like him.

YSR can never be like CBN. i agree with that. many of the current industrial projects were proposed and started in CBN's era. YSR is just continuing those. but i have to say he is making good efforts to continue AP's industrial progress. that's evident.
and the good thing is rural development is also progressing faster than CBN's regime.

YSR's the CM of AP. in the manner that u justified maran's behavior, even YSR's behavior can be defended, perhaps to a greater extent.

will say it again.....
Maran is India's IT and Communications Minister, not TN's. he should not focus or project no particular city or state.
YSR's AP's CM. anything he does for the state is fair.

http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1000566

it really seems like industry experts and companies interested in setting up a manufacturing facility want it in Hyderabad. The south korean company has tied up with Intel. and SemIndia with AMD. very interesting combination.
It's about time the center made the announcement as to where the project is going to be located.



Intel may pip AMD for AP fab unit

C Chitti Pantulu
Sunday, December 04, 2005 20:49 IST


HYDERABAD: If things work out chipmakers and archrivals Intel and AMD could end up being neighbours, in a manner of speaking, in the not-too-distant future.

The arc lights have so far been focused on the SemIndia-AMD tieup for a chip fabrication unit in the country. But in a quiet move, South Korean holding company Intellect Inc. has roped in Intel for a possible technology and equity partnership for a mega fab unit at the Nanotech Park in Hyderabad.

This comes even as top officials of SemIndia met up with Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy on Sunday to discuss the nitty-gritty of setting up a fab unit in Hyderabad which has been given top-billing by the semiconductor industry as the most ideal location for such projects.

According to sources close to the development, Intel will invest anywhere between $32 million to $40 million towards the $160 million equity in the project being promoted by Nano-Tech Silicon India (NTSI).

NTSI is a joint venture company promoted by June Min, chairman and chief executive, Intellect, with seed funding from himself, the government of Andhra Pradesh and Jai Ramesh and M Prabhakara Rao, promoters of Hyderabad-based Vijay Electricals.

According to sources, Intellect has an understanding with IBM also for process technology and equity in the project. However, the advantage in going with Intel will be that the global chip major will shift a fab line and patented design library to Hyderabad apart from providing technology.

The fab, with an initial capacity of 30,000 wafers per month, will begin by making chipsets for consumer electronic goods like cellphones, set-top boxes, TVs and DVDs.

The Essar group will pick up substantial equity, up to 25%, in the project, investment in which has been pegged at $650 million in the Phase I. UTI Bank will also pick up a substantial stake apart from syndicating the $290 million debt component.

Company and government officials, however, want to keep the announcement under wraps till the financial closure is reached, which is expected anytime around the middle of December.

When approached by DNA, June Min refused to confirm the technology and industrial partners in the project except for stating that it was a US-based major that had substantial marketshare. Intel dominates the $220 billion chip market with an 80% marketshare with AMD making up for the remaining 20%.

Phase I will make 0.18 micron and 0.13 micron chips, while Phase II is for making 0.09 and 0.06 micron chips. Phase II will involve an additional investment of $1.5 billion, the sources said.

Intel will also sell the library, machines and technology for Phase I and the chips will start rolling by mid-2007.

According to CS Rao, advisor, IT, and CEO of AP Invest, the investment promotion arm of the Andhra Pradesh government, the state government will service the interest burden to the extent of Rs 35 crore every year for a period of 10 years for the project.

Significantly, 70% of the output in Phase I will be for the domestic market and the remaining exported.

Dr Rao expressed confidence that the $3 billion SemIndia project, too, would be located in Hyderabad. Talks between the state government and the company, which is a public-private partnership initiative by a consortium of non-resident Indians and the government of India, had kicked off on October 8, much before the announcement of the tieup with AMD was announced. Subsequent meetings, the latest one being on Sunday, have been encouraging.

“We hope to wrap the discussions with SemIndia soon and finalise all details within a month for the announcement”, he said.

According to June Min, a survey conducted by him of six centres in India, including Bangalore, Chennai, Noida, Pune, and Chennai, for locating fab units had shown Hyderabad to be the best location on all the 14 parameters studied.

Says Rao: “We are targeting eight fabs with an employment potential for 15,000 people at the Nano-Tech Park which is coming up close to the proposed Hyderabad International Airport project and a stone’s throw from the hardware park.”

why YSR is projecting only Hyderabad for the fab city, why not kakinada or warangal? He is too partial, he is the Chief minister for the state, not hyderabad alone.

that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard. i hope u're in the right senses. none of these cities have the infrastructure, facilities, etc.

most importantly the companies which are in for this bid do not have any plans whatsoever to setup in any other city than Hyderabad if at all it is going to be in AP.

so does'nt ur last post prove maran is not projecting tn????

These guys in intel do ton of market research, consider 100000 odd possibilities before they decide.

I am not defending maran. Honestly i dont care and in fact i am critising maran for taking credit which he does'nt deserve. He is was just trying to get a political mileage out of the entire situation. I have told u earlier. He is full of BS. Now that hydrebad has the fab plant and possibly intel as well...maybe u can see my point better.

If u tell me both intel & AMD happened because of YSR's brilliance and not because of the city of hydrebad, I donno what to say.

will say it again.....
Maran is India's IT and Communications Minister, not TN's. he should not focus or project no particular city or state.


Just complaining again...no facts and figures

i def don't say it's because of YSR's brilliance. that's the biggest BS if anybody says it. it's because of hyderabad's brilliance in several ways that such prestigious projects are being considered for the city. CBN's efforts of turning Hyderabad into a global hub are really taking shape now.

honestly, the true credit for this goes to former CM of AP, Nara Chandrababu Naidu. before he came into the political scene of AP, hyderabad was ranked in the top 25 in infrastructure and attractiveness for investment.
He changed it all. his dynamism and charisma, i think are absent in any other Indian leader of today other thank the current PM himself.

anyway, coming to the present times, it's not yet officially decided whether hyderabad is the location or not.

maran did project chennai but has stopped now especially after heavy criticism from YSR and other ministers and MLAs.

^^

If hyderabad gets the project its because of the city's stength, whereas if chennai gets then its due to maran. :bash:

what a logic..!!!

that's a statement in superlative degree.

did i ever say all chennai had was beurearucratic support and no real stuff ???????????????????????????

considering all the significant factors, I said, Hyderabad was better and that's what the industrialists involved in this project are saying.

that's a statement in superlative degree.

did i ever say all chennai had was beurearucratic support and no real stuff ???????????????????????????

considering all the significant factors, I said, Hyderabad was better and that's what the industrialists involved in this project are saying.

Cant say anything- as u now say it is because of cbn while earlier u critised him... the argument just keeps beating around the bush...not much of a use..:)


Its the people of a city that make a city good.

Atleast do u see Maran just makes a political mileage out of everything when he really does'nt have much say in most of the things?

Again if u read the article there were 14 parameters which were supposedly evaluated before the decision on hyderabad was done. It had nothing to do with politicians convincing them other than informing the investors about the state's sudsidaries. Those 14 parameters (involving in depth market/city research) are very important as MONEY revolves around those parameters. All the World Corporations do have such evaluation. What the politicians say out of this... mmmmm ..... that is very well known. So In the end, it is the people of the city which make a city good. I will end my discussion here.

Maran as an IT Minister has done very well for the country. He took the initiative to meet the chiefs of Intel, Motorola, Microsoft, AMD, Solectron, Starcom, etc. etc. Almost all of them have visited India and are investing heavily in India. That's good for the country.

Maran hasn't forced any city upon these company chiefs. Their teams visit locations across India and consider many aspects before making a final decision. Nokia invested in Chennai, LG has done so in Maharashtra...Intel has visited couple of cities and so has Motorola. From this it is very clear that Maran hasn't forced any city and is acting as the country's Union Minister. It is now upto the States to act on the proposals sent by the IT Ministry.

pding, do you think that just because Maran says a company will invest in a city? As you pointed out no company will invest in locations like Kakinada and Warrangal simply because they have no infrastructure. This makes it very clear that companies look at many many factors before choosing a city. Maran cannot simply influence a decision. Even if he asks a company to invest in Chennai, as you say, the city should offer the right infrastructure, skillset, environment, etc. to attract it. And a couple of companies have found Chennai to be just right for them. So, its all decided by the companies.

Can we please move on from this discussion :)

i def don't say it's because of YSR's brilliance. that's the biggest BS if anybody says it. it's because of hyderabad's brilliance in several ways that such prestigious projects are being considered for the city. CBN's efforts of turning Hyderabad into a global hub are really taking shape now.

honestly, the true credit for this goes to former CM of AP, Nara Chandrababu Naidu. before he came into the political scene of AP, hyderabad was ranked in the top 25 in infrastructure and attractiveness for investment.
He changed it all. his dynamism and charisma, i think are absent in any other Indian leader of today other thank the current PM himself.

anyway, coming to the present times, it's not yet officially decided whether hyderabad is the location or not.

maran did project chennai but has stopped now especially after heavy criticism from YSR and other ministers and MLAs.

Yes. Former CM Naidu was way too visionary. He really changed the laid back nawabi Hyderabadi lifestyle and jump started the whole process. IT, road widenings, rapid building of flyovers, National games, Afro Asian games. He really brought Hyd. to the forefront. YSR is also a good leader but now way close to charisma and personality that Naidu commanded. YSR is harvesting what naidu bow in hyderabad. Not to take away from YSR, he is a good leader and rest of the state is doing better under him. All the dream that Naidu saw for Hyderabad are now materialising. Infact, we will not know the real vision of hyderabad till new Int airport is up and running and ORR is completed. That should change the dynamics of the city inside out.

Cant say anything- as u now say it is because of cbn while earlier u critised him... the argument just keeps beating around the bush...not much of a use..:)


Its the people of a city that make a city good.

Atleast do u see Maran just makes a political mileage out of everything when he really does'nt have much say in most of the things?

Again if u read the article there were 14 parameters which were supposedly evaluated before the decision on hyderabad was done. It had nothing to do with politicians convincing them other than informing the investors about the state's sudsidaries. Those 14 parameters (involving in depth market/city research) are very important as MONEY revolves around those parameters. All the World Corporations do have such evaluation. What the politicians say out of this... mmmmm ..... that is very well known. So In the end, it is the people of the city which make a city good. I will end my discussion here.




let me make it clear.

as y'all said, these investors do look at everything before investing. but maran did try his position to influence them tho. but now it doesn't matter anymore because as u said, these companies really don't care what the politicians say.

and concerning Naidu, tho his tenure in office did a lot of good to Hyderabad, his overall leadership lacks in that he didn't do much for the rest of the state. that's why he got kicked out.

and when i said the true credit goes to him, i was in my right senses. i don't know what u think but every Andhrite, atleast every hyderabadi thinks the same as i do.

If Hyderabad today is what it is, Naidu's leadership was a key reason behind that. ofcourse a city's ppl have a lot to do with it's development. but this talent of Hyderabad's people was never put to use. it was all wasted before Naidu's era. Naidu changed this all because he knew the State and the City especially, had a lot of potential.

and if u still think i'm beating around the bush, u prolly don't know the full details of what i'm talkin' about and what Hyderabadis really think of the city and how it's development was brought forth by Naidu. virtually every person in hyderabad, who has some kind of interest in all these developments would agree with me.

CBN focused on improvement in areas that would make the city attractive for investment (including image). And he was very aggressive in marketing this change. So his main contribution is that he made Hyderabad a destination to consider when it wasn't even considered earlier.

I agree with what a lot of the forumers have been saying that politicians can merely influence the options, but not the final decision. The decision almost always depends on the advantages each destination offers.

So I guess its ok for politicians to have their own agendas and preferences. This probably has more positive impact because they get in touch with companies to invest in India (or their location of choice). And this approach will get more investment to India. I dont know if Maran tried to push Chennai as the Intel location, but I do feel that he may have been involved in Intel considering India again.

I feel that the present congress government in A.P enjoys shouting from rooftops whenever there is hint of a new project coming there way. They should behave more professionally.
The best example is botsa satyanaraya former industries minister involved in the volkswagon scandal. The way he presented himself really sucked.

One should not care to which ever state the fab projects go , i think that its a sort of madness to expect all the projects to come our way and not to our neighbours.

And finally i dont understand what pleasure does rajshekar reddy get by renaming every project in the state right from public toilets to international airport after the gandhi- nehru family.

I feel that the present congress government in A.P enjoys shouting from rooftops whenever there is hint of a new project coming there way. They should behave more professionally.
The best example is botsa satyanaraya former industries minister involved in the volkswagon scandal. The way he presented himself really sucked.



There was a much bigger scandal with the VW annoucement by Botsa... hidden under the more apparent 2 million $ payments scandal which came into the media...


It seems prior to the announcement ..the minister has purchased a lot of land near the proposed VW plant area for cheaper rates and later when he publicised the arrival of VW in vizag...the surrounding land prices shot up exponentially in a span of few weeks. The minister made lot of profit by selling the land he owned for the higher prices.....

This came into light when one of the local newspaper made an investigation....

CBN focused on improvement in areas that would make the city attractive for investment (including image). And he was very aggressive in marketing this change. So his main contribution is that he made Hyderabad a destination to consider when it wasn't even considered earlier.

I agree with what a lot of the forumers have been saying that politicians can merely influence the options, but not the final decision. The decision almost always depends on the advantages each destination offers.

So I guess its ok for politicians to have their own agendas and preferences. This probably has more positive impact because they get in touch with companies to invest in India (or their location of choice). And this approach will get more investment to India. I dont know if Maran tried to push Chennai as the Intel location, but I do feel that he may have been involved in Intel considering India again.

Right on the dot!!!!!

true. more professionalism is required.

"And finally i dont understand what pleasure does rajshekar reddy get by renaming every project in the state right from public toilets to international airport after the gandhi- nehru family."


I really agree. anybody have the web address of AP's CMO. i think i might as well write a little mail to those ppl, that if they keep naming everything on just one person, there will be no originality. and it's becoming really generic.

pding: If Hyderabad today is what it is, Naidu's leadership was a key reason behind that. ofcourse a city's ppl have a lot to do with it's development. but this talent of Hyderabad's people was never put to use. it was all wasted before Naidu's era. Naidu changed this all because he knew the State and the City especially, had a lot of potential.

the fact is before the IT revolution most of the country's talent was never put to use. B'lore and Hyderabad definitely showed the way to the rest of the country.

One fine day, the totalitarian Congress rule ended. The era of dynastic rule and overwhelming majorities that epitomized the Congress rule for the past 45 years was gone, once and happily forever.

Then came the Rao government, Manmohanomics, liberalization and the technology sector boom. Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad became the IT hubs...

haha, a pretty fancy timeline.

Manmohanomics - cool word

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=56724



Andhra Pradesh to slash electricity tariff for IT, ITES

Hyderabad, Nov 24 : Andhra Pradesh Thursday said it would substantially reduce elecricity tariff for the information technology (IT) and IT enabled services (ITES) next year to give a boost to these sectors.

"We reduced electricity tariff by four percent this year and from April next we will substantially reduce it," Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy said at a function here.

Promising full government support to the two sectors, he said adequate infrastructure would be developed in the state.

A separate infrastructure and investment department has been set up to prepare a plan.

"We plan to develop 10 airports (airstrips) and the Hyderabad international airport will be ready by 2007," Reddy said.

He was speaking after inaugurating Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation's (HSBC) second group service centre for providing superior services to its customers worldwide.

The centre, the fifth in India, was inaugurated at the Hitec City, Madhapur, in the presence of John Bond, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc.

Appreciating HSBC's efforts, he urged the company to also look towards other cities, especially Tirupati.

"Tirupati is not only the second largest pilgrim centre in the world after Vatican but also offers good human resource and infrastructure. You would also gain the advantage of being in the proximity of Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad," Reddy said.

Speaking on the occasion, Bond said international companies were moving to countries having good technology and communications where they can work effectively.

"But without human talent, technology is of little value. India, particularly Andhra Pradesh, has human talent in abundance and we are pleased to open a number of Group Service Centres in India," he said.

Bond said HSBC had 10,000 employees at its centers at Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore and Koltata.

"These highly qualified professionals are providing customer services to HSBC clients in US, UK, European Union, Middle East and other Asian countries," he said.

The new facility with a capacity of 3,500, would also act as a centre of excellence. It has residential training facility where bank employees from its centres worldwide will be trained on a special module developed in collaboration with the British Council.

The eight-week residential course will equip students with professional English language listening and speaking skills.

Bond also inaugurated a new building for a government-run school at Madhapur built by HSBC Group Service Centre and Larsen and Toubro.





http://www.hindu.com/2005/12/06/stories/2005120604451300.htm



Naidu leads regional parties in election campaign for AGP

Special Correspondent

"Assam will lose its identity if illegal immigration continues" "Though endowed with vast natural resources, Assam was neglected most when the Congress was in power at the Centre and in the State"


RALLYING POINT: Asom Gana Parishad president Brindaban Goswami (right) and the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Chandrababu Naidu, at a rally marking the completion of 20 years of the AGP in Guwahati on Monday. — Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar


Guwahati: The former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Monday led leaders of regional parties in issuing a call to the people of Assam to dethrone the Congress Government and vote the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) to power in the May 2006 Assembly elections.

Kicking off the poll campaign for the AGP here, Mr. Naidu expressed confidence that it would repeat the 1985 performance.

Reminiscent of 1985 rally


He said the turnout at the rally was reminiscent of the days of the Assam agitation and a similar programme organised by the AGP at the same venue in 1985.

The AGP organised the rally to mark the completion of 20 years of its formation in 1985 after the six-year long anti-foreigners' agitation.

Naidu's apprehension


Echoing the concern expressed by AGP leaders and the All Assam Students' Union (AASU), the Telegu Desam chief expressed apprehension that the State would lose its identity if illegal immigration from Bangladesh continued unabated.

Mr. Naidu, who made his opening remarks in Assamese much to the delight of the crowd, said Assam, though endowed with vast natural resources, was neglected most when the Congress was in power at the Centre and in the State.

He spoke a few words in Telugu for a section of Telugu-speaking AGP workers and supporters.

A Telugu song was rendered in honour of Mr. Naidu and five TDP MPs present at the rally.

Other supporters


The parties which backed Mr. Naidu's appeal to the voters are the National Conference, the Shiromoni Akali Dal, the Nagaland People's Front and the Mizo National Front.

also, I think we need to have like AP Projects thread. otherwise lots of stuff not concerning with Hyderabad could land up here.

^^
there`s one already which has gone into the closet ...

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=204536