The first pillar (pier) of the elevated metro rail project for the twin cities will be up by next weekend near Kendriya Vidyalaya, Uppal.
L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail (L&THMR) has begun the base reinforcement for constructing the pier, one among the 305 piers to be built between Nagole and Mettuguda.
The eight kilometre section is part of the third metro line from Nagole to Shilparamam (27.51 km) and is scheduled to be the first stage to be completed. The elevated metro rail is being built across 71.16 km spread across three dense traffic corridors of the capital at a cost of Rs.14,182 crore.
The first pier will be eight metres high and 1.8 metres wide. Engineers of L&T and Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) have simulated the entire pier construction at the recently earmarked 60 acre girder yard, adjacent to the 104 acre Nagole depot, before the actual work began on the road median.
Seven stations will be built – Uppal, Survey of India, NGRI, Habsiguda, Tarnaka and Mettuguda, separated by distances ranging between 1.03 km and 1.60 km for stage one. Height of the stations will be from 47 ft to 53 ft. Stage two is between Miyapur and S.R. Nagar (11 km).
“There is enough road carriageway for barricading. Electric poles were shifted, so were major power lines of 11KV and 33 KV. Culverts were widened, open drains covered and work on an alternate road from Uppal ring road to Ramanthapur along the Hyderabad nala is on. The only pending work in the section is the water pipeline shift at a stretch between Habsiguda and Alugaddabhavi,” explained HMR Managing Director N.V.S. Reddy.
The new substation which will come up on five acres inside the depot and be given free to the Transmission Corporation of A.P. for construction of a substation will also better power supply in the area as it was being routed from Ghanpur now. APTransco has waived ‘centage' charges amount to 15 per cent of the cost of setting up the substation.
Mr. Reddy pointed out that farmers in the area had voluntarily come forward to give land for the project. For the land leased for the girder yard, an annual rent of more than Rs.1 lakh was being paid per acre to the land owners.
Meanwhile, the Centre has given its principle approval to fund the Rs.18.76 lakh study to improve pedestrian facilities and dedicated feeder bus services for the HMR.
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