Shifting of Secretariat & Assembly. The Govt. Targets Hitec City after Chest Hospital & Bison Ground were dropped!

(Excl Ventures News.)The Telangana government is considering shifting the legislative assembly to Hi-Tec City along with the state secretariat as part of a phase-wise plan to create an ''integrated smart administrative city'' for the new state, a minister in the K Chandrasekhar Rao government told TOI on Sunday.

"The idea is to build a remarkable integrated administrative cluster, where the government infrastructure is at one place. For instance, a block will comprise three floors shared by the minister, secretaries and HoDs," said minister for roads and buildings Tummala Nageswar Rao.

"When you talk about creating an integrated government infrastructure, you cannot have the assembly building located at a distance from the Secretariat. It is going to be included in the new complex in a phased manner," the minister told TOI. He, however, added: "We will consult all the stakeholders before taking the final call."

If all goes well, the government will shift the legislative assembly only after the secretariat complex becomes operational, the minister said.

An area behind Shilparamam near Hi-Tec City is being considered as an option, as hundreds of acres of government land is available there, Nageswar Rao said.

Hi-Tec City houses hundreds of software companies, including dozens of multi-national firms, which are ever-expanding in operations and employ thousands of people. The government''s earlier proposals to take land either around the Erragadda Chest Hospital or defence land at the Bison polo grounds hit roadblocks one after the other. While Chest Hospital option got entangled in a court case and saw huge protests, the Bison Polo Ground option turned out to be expensive with the ministry of defence demanding a whopping Rs 600 crore for 60 acres.

"Going by recent experiences, we have decided to go in for a greenfield development wherein the secretariat complex will be built on open land in possession of the government. Hence we are considering the land parcel near the Hi-Tec City as one of the options," the minister said.

As for shifting of the Assembly and the Council, he said, it would be done at the final stage, while the present priority was on building the primary structure of the secretariat.

The Vaastu consultant to the state government, Suddala Sudhakara Teja, the secretariat near Hi-Tec City would be helpful in decongesting city traffic. "The CM''s vision is a seamless traffic flow in the city. Building the secretariat at locations like Bison Polo grounds or Erragadda or anywhere inside the main city would be detrimental to this. Locations near Hi-Tec city is preferable since there is a scope for building the new secretariat in sync with the changing image Hyderabad as a global destination," said the Vaastu expert.

Bhuvangiri Lok Sabha member Bura Narasiah Goud said the need to have a world class infrastructure was the main reason behind the planned shifting of the secretariat building from its existing location near Tank Bund.

"As a policy, the government is committed to single-window clearance for industries in a fortnight. To fulfil the commitment, we need to bring the disparate government offices to a single location and realise tech-enabled paperless governance. The smart administrative city is going to reflect the modern face of Hyderabad," Goud said.

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