Hyderabad | Outer Ring Road | Phase II U/C

[irutavias]

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Hyderabad Outer Ring Road

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Twin Thread in the Hyderabad City Subforum
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=545449
Please continue to discuss issues in the HYD subforum thread, and only post new pictures and major updates here


Hyderabad Growth Corridor Limited
State Agency responsible for developing the Outer Ring Road [ORR] and its adjacent real-estate
http://www.hyderabadringroad.com/

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A summary article highlighting Hyderabad's Outer Ring Road's importance and magnitude:
http://news.in.msn.com/business/arti...mentid=4843680

Highway to the future

The urban landscape of India includes congested metropolitan cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata, on the one hand, and urban sprawls like Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad, on the other. Hyderabad's outer ring road is an attempt to decongest the city and plan for future development. It is the country's largest single road project outside the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP).

The Nehru Outer Ring Road known as Hyderabad's Growth Corridor is a 158 km long expressway covering an area of 3,000 sq km (including 83 villages) that frees up large parcels of land for development. By building a network of radial roads, it connects far flung areas with the city centre. The area covered within the outer ring road is about 6 times the area of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. The road is designed to reduce travel distance between suburbs of Greater Hyderabad and create conditions for development of new growth hubs along and beyond.

In a short span of 10 years the city of Hyderabad has become an international hub for investments in IT and IT-enabled services, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and health services, besides becoming a centre for higher education and professional institutions such as the Indian School of Business, the National Law School and many colleges of engineering. This has generated a rapidly increasing demand for commercial, industrial, institutional and recreational spaces, and a growing demand for residential housing.

Planning for urban development to accommodate these demands required an urgent focus on transport and road network. The inner ring road had become a part of the city network system over the years. There was an urgent need for an outer bypass system that would divert traffic not destined for the city and ease congestion which would otherwise become a serious deterrent for investment and growth. The outer ring road project does just that.

Within the area encircled by the outer ring road, 33 radial roads have been identified connecting the inner ring road with the outer ring road, of which 6 have been completed and 5 have been taken up for construction. The radial roads will provide easy access to the airport road, IT parks, SEZs and other developments surrounding the Greater Hyderabad area. Roads have been planned in alignment with National Highways and State Highways, thereby ensuring connectivity with the wider region. The result is that Mumbai is connected to Bangalore via Hyderabad, and Vijayawada is also connected with Mumbai via Hyderabad.

Future satellite townships are being planned along the 1-km stretch growth corridor on either side of the ring with a view to attracting business parks, technology clusters, etc, and appropriate taxation of these should help finance the remaining infrastructure for the region. While development regulations have been prepared for this belt in line with the plans of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), it is important to ensure that the regulations are objective, transparent and clearly enforced.

The eight-lane expressway is designed to host moving vehicles of up to 120 km per hour speed. Trees are being planted to deflect the glare on the roads. To manage the high speed movement of vehicles, a Highway Traffic Management system is planned, as is a Toll Management system. Toll-free service roads are provided on either side of the expressway. There is provision for utility ducts to ensure that the roads are not dug up in the future.

The first phase of the expressway was opened in July 2010 with 24 km running from Gachibowli to Shamshabad. The first part of the second phase of 63 km is to be completed by April 2011 and the second part of the second phase covering 71 km is expected to be completed by December 2012. In all, the ring road crisscrosses 5 National Highways, 5 State Highways and 7 major district roads, and connects new urban nodes outside Hyderabad, e.g., Hi-Tech city, Games Village, Hardware Park, IT Park, Nano Park and the Indian School of Business.

Plans are in place to link the existing railway lines of the Eastern and Western corridors of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Area, and connect the existing network of the Northern and Southern Railways. Terminals and parking lots for trucks will be located at intersections of the ring road connecting National Highways with State Highways. A 25-km stretch has been earmarked for an integrated network of metro rail and buses.

The outer ring road is a fine example of regional planning by the government of Andhra Pradesh. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) was created in 2008 by merging the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA), Cyberabad Development Authority and the Hyderabad Airport Development Authority, with a total jurisdiction of 7,100 sq km. The Hyderabad Growth Corridor Limited (HGCL) was set up as a Special Purpose Vehicle to serve as the executing agency of the project to build the outer ring road. HGCL is a fully publicly held company with 74% shares with HMDA and 26% with Infrastructure Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (INCAP). The Metropolitan Commissioner of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) is the Chairman of the HGCL Board. The company is headed by a Managing Director who also acts as a Special Collector to aid in the land acquisition process, along with a team of land acquisition officers.

Of the total project cost of Rs 6,696 crore, the first phase of Rs 699 crore was financed through loans from a consortium of commercial banks led by the Bank of Baroda. The first part of the second phase costing Rs 2,439 crore is being implemented on a PPP basis.

Following global tenders, the contracts were awarded to 5 concessionaires. A Build Operate Transfer (BOT) annuity model was used covering a 12½ year concession period, with 20% of the project cost provided as grant by the HMDA. The second part of the second phase is being financed by a long-term (30 year) loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) at an interest rate of 1.2% per annum, 10-year moratorium on payment, and sovereign guarantee. The loan from JICA of Rs 3,123 crore financed most of the project cost of Rs 3,558 crore for this phase.

The toll rates proposed by HGCL are currently under review of the state government. Impact fee on building permissions and new developments is expected to contribute significantly to revenue generation, which will help in repayment of the loan and finance the project.

As regards land acquisition, cash compensation amounting to 2 to 3 times the value of the land was given to families who sold their land. In cases where land was preferred by the seller in exchange, compensatory plots of 75% of the area were provided. A few cases of disputes on land acquisition are pending in the High Court and the Supreme Court.

As the process of urbanisation gathers momentum across the country, there is greater need for regional planning with due regard for connectivity within the region and across the regions. The Hyderabad Growth Corridor shows the way. Since land values would increase substantially on account of development of the ring road and change in land use, ways should be found for ensuring an equitable sharing of the additional value between land owners and the government so as to enable the latter to finance the large investments required for developing an expanded city of this nature.

Isher Judge Ahluwalia is chair of Icrier and chair of the high powered expert committee on urban infrastructure. Ranesh Nair is a consultant to the committee. Views are personal

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A detailed map of the ORR Project
http://www.clubhyd.com/wp-content/up...07/orr_map.jpg




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A few pictures from the Hyderabad Subforum
[Credit to the forum posters as well as the respective photographers]

Originally Posted by p.raghavendra6

80 is the speed limit it says.


Nagarjuma Sagar HW Interchange.












Did not understand this sign board.






Toll booths u/c


The road between IRR and ORR on Sagar HW

Stay Tuned.




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Photos and Major Updates ONLY, Please


For discussion - please refer to the HYD Subforum thread:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=545449


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[tall_dreams]

great road

[nh9]

Moderators please don't remove this thread from this section as the Hyderabad outer ring road is considered the huge road infrastructure project for urban India. This thread deserves to be in this section.

[nh9]

[nh9]

[nh9]

Moderators please don't remove this thread from this section as the Hyderabad outer ring road is considered the huge road infrastructure project for urban India. This thread deserves to be in this section.

[Prodigist]

X-Posting. Would be good if this thread is a PHOTOS ONLY THREAD with the discussion part being restricted to the thread in Hyd section

Originally Posted by pvk

Cloverleaf Intersection near Tukkuguda Junction

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Originally Posted by bobbie501

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Source

[Prodigist]

Originally Posted by _GrapeWine_

From my friends cam...
(c) Suyash

Originally Posted by _GrapeWine_

more..
(c) Suyash

Satellite Image around Jan 2010

Originally Posted by nh9

[tall_dreams]

what is the total legth of this road?

[rsrikanth05]

Lovely shots, I thought such roads were a dream in India.
Amazing.

[hyderabadnawab]

Originally Posted by tall_dreams

what is the total legth of this road?

About 165 kms.

[tall_dreams]

As long as the Yamuna Expressway.

[sixsigma1978]

Originally Posted by rsrikanth05

Lovely shots, I thought such roads were a dream in India.
Amazing.

I'm too completely bowled over by this project!! Andhra is rampaging ahead.
Wonder what would've been the state of Andhra if Chandrababu Naidu hadn't pulled the coup and NTR was still the CM!!!

[rsrikanth05]

Originally Posted by sixsigma1978

I'm too completely bowled over by this project!! Andhra is rampaging ahead.
Wonder what would've been the state of Andhra if Chandrababu Naidu hadn't pulled the coup and NTR was still the CM!!!

If YSR was still alive this project would've been done ages ago.

[Vara123]

Originally Posted by rsrikanth05

If YSR was still alive this project would've been done ages ago.

You are so wrong on this. The Phase-I of ORR was delayed by three years because of YSR Ruling. After his death there is a good progress on phase – I also. He did ever favor that he could do to the contractors. If he was alive other phases also would have been delayed.

[rsrikanth05]

Originally Posted by Vara123

You are so wrong on this. The Phase-I of ORR was delayed by three years because of YSR Ruling. After his death there is a good progress on phase – I also. He did ever favor that he could do to the contractors. If he was alive other phases also would have been delayed.

Really?
All that hoo haa over nothing?
I must be mistaken. Someone told me YSR was doing all the good.
Haven't been to Hyd after he died.

[sixsigma1978]

Still - I think NTR's demise was the best thing (dont want to sound insensitive - but until he went - Andhra was just another vegetative state)!! I still give Chandrababu Naidu credit for turining around Andhra's fortune!!

The others after him too have done a great job (compared to politicians say, in my Karnataka - owls like HD deve gowda and his progeny - who have nothing to do except hoard land and play destructive politics!! ) . Karnataka Politicians should learn a thing or two from their Andhra counterparts

[rsrikanth05]

Originally Posted by sixsigma1978

Still - I think NTR's demise was the best thing (dont want to sound insensitive - but until he went - Andhra was just another vegetative state)!! I still give Chandrababu Naidu credit for turining around Andhra's fortune!!

The others after him too have done a great job (compared to politicians say, in my Karnataka - owls like HD deve gowda and his progeny - who have nothing to do except hoard land and play destructive politics!! ) . Karnataka Politicians should learn a thing or two from their Andhra counterparts

This road should be a benchmark for Bangalore's NICE Road.

[AutobotDelhi]

Wow ...great shots and nice updates.

[irutavias]

Great pics everyone. A reminder:

Photos and Major Updates ONLY, Please


For discussion - please refer to the HYD Subforum thread:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=545449



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