The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s newest proposal for 5 tunnel roads within the western a part of the town brings the main target again on the one tunnel highway for which feasibility research was mandated by the earlier authorities.
The GHMC has not too long ago known as for expression of curiosity (EOI) for consultancy providers in the direction of feasibility research and subsequent preparation of detailed undertaking experiences (DPR) for improvement of 5 tunnel corridors aimed toward easing the ever growing site visitors congestion within the west zone.
The 5 proposed tunnels are every between ITC Kohenur and Wipro Circle through Khajaguda and Nanakramguda, ITC Kohenur lodge and JNTU through Mindspace, ITC Kohenur to Banjara Hills Road No. 10 through Jubilee Hills Road No. 45, GVK One Mall and Nanalnagar through Masabtank, and Nampally and Chandrayangutta Inner Ring Road through Charminar and Falaknuma.
While all these routes are extremely congested when it comes to commute, and require pressing and efficacious options, viability of such options stays the moot query.
A year-and-a-half in the past, an analogous research was commissioned by way of a reputed consultancy for finding out the feasibility of carving a tunnel from underneath the Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park with a purpose to circumvent the problem of tree felling within the park for development of flyovers as a part of the Strategic Nala Development Plan (SRDP).
The four-lane underground tunnel was proposed to attach the Road No. 45, Jubilee Hills, with the NFCL Junction with approaches from KBR entrance and Road No. 12.
The feasibility research was performed and report was submitted to the State authorities, but it has not seen the sunshine of the day until now. The company was to be paid ₹3.61 crore for the research and the DPR, with the latter but to be performed.
Officials underneath the situation of anonymity admit that it’s a Herculean process given the problems concerned. A tunnel boring machine must be deployed for carving out an underground route, and with the utmost width of such machine restricted to fifteen metres, two separate tunnels should be bored for site visitors each methods.
More cumbersome is the development of method roads on all sides, and the concomitant highway widening.
“We need to go 30 metres beneath the ground level for the tunnel, for which about 10 kilometre clearance is needed around the area for construction of approach roads,” an official knowledgeable.
Land acquisition shall be a value intensive and time consuming train given the worth of the property within the space the place the undertaking is to return up.
Source: www.thehindu.com
