MIM, BJP spar over Metro Rail alignment
Hyderabad, Dec 9 (INN): With the MIM sticking to its stand demanding change in alignment of Hyderabad Metro Rail route in the Old City, the BJP insisted that there should be no change in the original design.
Speaking to media persons after the All Party meeting on Tuesday, MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi that his party has been opposing the route ever since the project was finalise. "We have made representations to former Chief Ministers including K Rosaiah and Kiran Kumar Reddy Reddy in the past opposing the proposed route," he said.
Akbaruddin Owaisi said that the proposed route covers the Eastern side of the Old City which already has the MMTS connectivity. In the second phase, the double of MMTS would happen.
Therefore, it will be illogical to run a parallel Metro Rail on the same route. However, he said the new route, proposed by the MIM, would connect Salarjung Museum, OGH, City College, Maternity Hospital, Nehru Zoological Park and other areas.
Further, the MIM leader said the route proposed by the HMRL authorities would affected a total of 1025 structures including 40 mosques, 10 temples and 11 Ashurkhanas. Of them, seven are heritage structures.
"When alignment can be changed to save the heritage structure of Assembly, then how seven structures could be allowed to be demolished," he asked adding that the route proposed by MIM involved only two structures including Kalapather PS building and one private property.
Meanwhile, Telangana BJP President G Kishan Reddy said that the Metro Rail should pass through the originally planned route covering Shalibanda, Lal Darwaza and Aliabad.
He said nearly 10 lakh residents of Old City would benefit from the project. Without naming MIM, he said that there was no development in the Old City and there was no account of where the money for different projects is being spent. He ridiculed the objection to the original route and said that the Metro Rail authorities have not even conduct a survey for the same.
News Posted: 10 December, 2014
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