[/caption]Taking stock: Government is examining the issue of rehabilitating tenants and hawkers of Sultan Bazar and Badichowdi affected by road widening for metro rail.
HYDERABAD: The government was seriously examining the issue of rehabilitating tenants and hawkers of Sultan Bazar and Badichowdi affected by road widening for metro rail in modern multi-storied markets proposed to be built at the existing old markets of Chikkadpally and Puthlibowli.
Measures
These measures will be other than the handsome compensation package being offered to property owners at market rates for land being taken for widening as well as structural compensation as part of a special package being prepared for the area. It is estimated that a 100 sq.yards plot will fetch between Rs.45-50 lakh and double the sum for double the area.
Senior metro rail officials on Tuesday have asserted that only the road was being widened to the required 100 ft and that none of the markets either at Chikkadpally, Sultan Bazar, Badichowdi or at any other place across the three routes are going to be “demolished”.
“Vested interests are deliberately spreading a disinformation campaign that the markets will vanish. The markets are not going anywhere. We just need to widen a 200 metre stretch from Bata showroom to Andhra Bank which is 30 ft, at other stretches in the area we need 10-15 ft only on either side of the road. The areas will only get rejuvenated as these are the old business districts,” explained senior officials.
Existing Chikkadpally market was single storied building and was spread over an acre while Puthlibowli market has 1.5 acres which can be developed to accommodate all the hawkers/tenant shopkeepers. Such shopping complexes are to be connected to the metro rail through skywalks.
GHMC Revenue Department was taking up an identity survey of the existing businessmen and videography too will be done.
“It is for the first time that such rehabilitation packages are being given for road widening. Project work will start only after rehabilitating the affected persons,” they affirmed.
About Rs. 30 crore was released by HMR for 45 properties on the Musheerabad-RTC crossroads road. They claimed that several property owners were keen on taking advantage of the package since properties across 300 metres on either side of the road on the three corridors would be permitted for multiple use – commercial or residential.
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