RRR Southern part project handed over to HGCL

Amidst the controversy surrounding the alleged irregularities in Radial Road 2 tenders floated by Hyderabad Growth Corridor Limited (HGCL), the State government has now entrusted the Southern part of Regional Ring Road (RRR) to HGCL.

Congress MLA from Munugode Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy had charged irregularities in tenders and accused that they were being offered to Andhra based companies. He even said there was a loss of Rs.600 crore to the State exchequer in the tenders.

In this backdrop, the State government’s decision to entrust the RRR’s Southern part of HGCL, is triggering apprehensions.

“HGCL has been entrusted with the task of



RRR’s Southern part. Since the organisation is involved in land acquisition for Future City, it is handed over the Southern part as well,” a senior official from Roads and Buildings department said.

Unlike the Northern part of RRR, the Southern part has been in the news for all wrong reasons. Farmers and land owners had staged protests over the changes made in the initial alignment. They accused that lands of influential people and industrialists were spared and those belonging to the small and marginal farmers were being targeted for acquisition.

Apart from left parties, leaders from the Congress party had also raised objections over the changes in the alignment.