HMDA invites consultants for DPR on ORR project

In addition to the existing 19 interchanges on the 158 km stretch of Outer Ring Road (ORR), Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has drawn up plans to develop another two interchanges at Narsingi and Janwada and overpass between Nanakramguda and Kollur on ORR stretch. It has invited consultancy services for a feasibility study and preparation of DPRs. HMDA has developed an eight-lane access-controlled expressway as a main carriageway (MCW) connecting 19 interchanges. The two places are currently toll lanes at TSPA, Financial District interchanges and are overcrowded during peak hours. Besides several residential colonies are coming up in the vicinity of TSPA, Kokapet, Kollur, Kismathpur and Manchirevula. The existing service roads on either side of the ORR have also become very congested and the police have made one-way traffic on service roads near the road junction at Narsingi and Kokapet rotary. The authority has proposed to take up widening of service roads on either side of ORR from TSPA to Kolluru junction.