GHMC goes for ₹498-cr bridge project

In order to ensure smooth flow of vehicular traffic in the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has recently decided to build 4.1 km-long bridge at an investment of ₹298.49 crore under the Strategic Road Development Plan The project, which has been touted as the longest steel bridge in the city would connect Owaisi Junction to Nalgonda crossroads. In this connection, the corporation has already invited tenders for the project and the same would be finalized very shortly. The four-lane steel bridge would ease traffic at Nalgonda X-Saidabad-IS Sadan-Owaisi Junction by taking over the heavy traffic flow at Nalgonda crossroad to Saidabad stretch and would eliminated multiple bottlenecks on the road stretch. It may be recalled that the GHMC has proposed the elevated corridor as road widening process on this stretch is nearly impossible due to the presence of religious structures and graveyards, claimed sources.