Government Backtracks, No Change In Metro Rail Plan.

In a move that has raised the hackles of Sultan Bazar traders, the Telangana government has backtracked on its insistence for a change in the alignment of metro rail route near the State Assembly and Sultan Bazar, and has now given the green signal to L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Limited (L&TMRHL) to go ahead with the construction as per the original plan.

Hours after this announcement, the Sultan Bazaar Traders Association called for a bandh in the area on Friday, to be followed by an emergency meeting to chalk out their strategy.

“This (government nod) was orally communicated to us by the state government that we should go ahead with the original plan,” L&TMRHL chief executive and managing director VB Gadgil said.

Addressing a press conference after inaugurating sample station retail outlets and walk around display of advertising boxes at the Nagole station on Thursday, Gadgil said that works would be taken up as per the original plan and there would not be any change in the alignment at the State Assembly and Sultan Bazar.

Regarding the change of alignment in the old city, which is for over 3 km, he said that discussions were going on at the state government level.

THE HINDU