Hyderabad: The long-standing row between the HMDA and the GHMC over funding a transport infrastructure project, has left motorists in dire straits. The result: traffic jams on Sardar Patel Road and Tank Bund.
While HMDA is insisting that GHMC should share the cost of the project, in keeping with the orders issued by the state government, the municipal corporation is in no mood to give away a single penny. In fact, its elected body of corporators even passed a resolution not to fund the project.
As a result, the construction of the proposed flyover from Patigadda near Rasoolpura to Necklace Road-Sanjeevaiah Park has not taken off almost five years after the then CM Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy laid the foundation for it.
Even the cost of the proposed road over bridge has jumped from Rs 25 crore five years back to over Rs 50 crore. (The price has shot up due to escalation in the prices of construction materials.) The flyover was to be constructed over the railway tracks, with the cost shared by the HMDA and GHMC at the rate of 50 per cent each.
Though the government served a show cause on the GHMC after it refused to fund the project, no action was taken. When contacted, GHMC engineer-in-chief R. Dhan Singh said that the GHMC standing committee has refused to fund the project.
HMDA chief engineer Madhwa Raja said that they do not have the finances to take up the project and that GHMC should honour the government order.