LMA to lay alternative road to ease traffic jams

SECUNDERABAD: In a major respite for commuters suffering from repeated closure of civilian roads in the Secunderabad cantonment, the local military authority (LMA) is planning to construct an alternative road.
After drawing flak from various quarters for shutting down these roads, it is learnt that LMA has come up with this plan. Though a decision to this effect has not been announced, the recent developments indicate that LMA has already rolled out a plan to come up with these roads.Defence sources told TOI that a team, comprising a surveyor and land acquisition officer from the defence estates office, has started surveying the defence land.
The road construction is likely to begin at the ‘Stop N Go Bakers’, Wellington Road and pass through West Marredpally (adjacent to Thapar Stadium), cross the Allahabad Gate before connecting the Anandbagh/Uttamnagar area. The distance of this upcoming road would be around three to five kilometres.
Giving more credence to these claims the officials of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has already fixed boundary pillars between Wellington Road and the electricity sub-station near the Allahabad Gate. “This proposed new alternative road is planned to provide relief to commuters using the Wellington Road, Entrenchment Road, Gough Road and Ordnance Road to reach Safilguda, Neredmet, Yapral and other nearby residential colonies,” a defences source told TOI.
Once the survey is completed the report will be submitted to LMA, who would in turn, forward it to the ministry of defence (MoD).
“After GHMC gets the land from the defence, tenders would be floated for the construction of the alternative road,” a GHMC official said.
Several leaders including KT Rama Rao wrote to defence minister Rajnath Singh and sought his intervention.