Implementer of world’s largest ppp metro; thinker& project management expert; reformer-bureaucrat; Telugu poet; known for financial & engineering innovation
Hon'ble CM, Telangana will lay foundation stone for the Hyderabad Airport Express Metro project on the 9th of December. This is a 31km corridor costing aboutRs 6250 cr. It's in tune with Hon'ble CM's vision of making Hyderabad a global city.
Happy to announce that the service hours of Hyderabad Metro Rail are being extended with effect from 10 October 2022(Monday). The last train will leave at 11 PM from respective terminal stations while starting the daily services at the usual 6 AM.
Taking off from Raidurg Metro terminal station, it will touch ORR at Nanakramguda jn & traverse along the ORR to reach Shamshabad international airport.
Hyderabad metro arranged a special train to transport a heart harvested from a brain dead person over 21 KM in 30 minutes during rush evening hours today(02.02.2021) to save a life.
Along with the above, Cabinet has also approved BHEL-LAKDIKAPUL line with connectivity to Miyapur (26km) & Nagole-LB Nagar (5km) with a revised cost estimate of Rs 9,100cr as a JV partnership Project of GoTS & GoI.
With 69 km of operational metro; 31 km of Airport Metro; 31 km of BHEL-LAKDIKAPUL with Miyapur connection & Nagole-LB Nagar connectivity; 5.5 km of old city metro & 278 km of the new 8 extension & 4 ORR Metro Corridors, metro coverage in Hyderabad will be about 415km.
Inspected Hitec city-Raidurg metro stretch today. It’s ready for CMRS inspection & after his safety clearance, it will be inaugurated by Hon’ble Minister
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Good budgetary allocations (FY 2022-23) for Hyderabad Metro rail:
1. Metro rail connectivity to Old city(for initiating works from MGBS to Falaknuma; 5.5km): Rs 500 Cr;
2. Airport metro connectivity(new project): Rs 377.35Cr; &
3. Funds to HMRL:
Rs 1500cr.
Total: Rs 2,377.35 Cr
We are happy to announce that as desired by Minister Mr KT Rama Rao in response to passenger requests, arrangements have been made to run metro trains from 6am from tomorrow( 10.09.21).
There is no change in the rest of the timings.
Hon’ble CM Mr KCR stated that Hyderabadis have started enjoying the sweet fruits of metro & that we need to prepare a master plan to extend the metro to all parts of the city to reduce pollution & make Hyderabad a global city.
All Hyderabad metro trains were stopped for 52 seconds at 11.30am today & National Anthem was sung in trains & stations today(16.08.22). MD, L&TMRHL KVB Reddy & I in a train with specially abled children & orphanage school students who were taken on a joy ride by us
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I have asked the Concessionaire L&TMRHL management to somehow raise funds & procure additional coaches to cater to the increasing number of Metro commuters.
Remember the guy who created nuisance in a metro train on 8th seemingly in inebriated condition & escaped. He was nabbed today at Tarnaka station with the help of CCTV footage & face recognition technology.
Happy to share that I have been featured as one of the Inspirational South Asian CEOs in the latest August/September edition of the reputed CEO magazine published from global cities like Sydney, Singapore etc. Link to my interview 👇
Appointed 2 survey teams to expedite the pre-construction activities & to start ground works of Airport Metro asap. Gave directives to my engineers to plan the extended blue line terminal station & the Airport Metro station as a combined interchange station one over the other.
Hon'ble CM has instructed MA&UD department & Metro Rail authorities to get PPRs(Preliminary Project Reports)/ DPRs prepared for all these Corridors. The total cost is about Rs 69,100 cr (Rs 60,000 + Rs 9,100 cr).
So far, survey of about 21 km of the total 31 km upto Fort Grand underpass near Shamshabad town has been completed. Total survey will be completed by this month (Jan) end
Massive development of commercial & residential high rise buildings in Nanakramguda, Financial District, Narsingi, Kokapet etc., in the last few years has changed the whole scenario. Airport Metro is being dovetailed to facilitate & cater to this unprecedented growth of Hyderabad
With state of the art technologies, passenger facilities & conveniences, Airport Express Metro will be an important project in making Hyderabad a globally competitive city. Under the dynamic leadership of
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, Hyderabad is witnessing a plethora of Infra projects.
Building Hyderabad Metro has been a challenging endeavour. I have penned this journey in the form of ‘Meghapatham’, a collection of Telugu poems which was formally launched on August 20th, 2022.
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The combined interchange station design is due to space constraints in front of L&T and Aurobindo buildings after Ikea junction. The first two levels will accommodate Airport Metro station & the top two levels will accommodate the extended blue line (Corridor 3) terminal station
Telangana Municipal Administration Minister Mr KTR is personally driving the reshaping of Airport Metro project with valuable inputs and directives; & monitoring the progress on day-to-day basis.
Inspected a stretch of about 10km of the Airport Metro project today (Sunday; 29.01.2023) from Narsingi underpass (My home Avatar junction) to Rajendranagar hillock to fine-tune the alignment.
These medical stores at Hyderabad metro stations will be open from 7am to 10pm, helping commuters & nearby residents to access medicines & pharma products at good discount rates.
Happy to anounce opening of the 3 closed stations (Bharat Nagar, Musheerabad & Gandhi Hospital) from tomorrow (Dec 03, 2020). Also the first train will start at 0630 hrs everyday (instead of 0700 hrs). No change in the timing of the last train.
Inspection of the engineering challenges in the difficult stretch of Raidurg station to Nanakramguda jn of Airport Metro today (18.02.2023) with our Adviser (Civil Engineering) & former Member Engineering, Railway Board Mr Subodh Jain
Inspected a 10 km stretch from Raidurg Metro terminal station to Narsingi Junction on Sunday (18.12.2022) to give directives to the survey teams & engineers for fine-tuning the alignment. Walked the whole stretch & guided them for better results.
With this speed enhancement, metro trains will be run at full speed of 80km from Sunday(April 3rd).
This will result in a saving of 6minutes journey time on Corridor 3(Nagole-Raidurg); 4minutes on C1(Miyapur-LB Nagar) & over 1minute in C2(Jbs-MGBS).
We started trial runs of metro trains on Corridor2(JBS-MGBS) today at JBS. It would take 16 minutes to cover this 11km corridor with 9 stations as against 45 mins by road. Ride was smooth & superb.
Hon'ble CM's directive to design the project not only for Airport passengers but also for reverse commute of those who stay in extended parts of the city to reach their work places in city within about 20 minutes would be kept in mind while locating & designing the stations
Happy to announce that we completed all the metro rail pillars of 66km please I (other than 6km in old city) with erecting the 2599th pier near MGBS Metro station
The aim is to realise CM KCR's vision of turning Airport Metro project into an opportunity to facilitate dispersed growth of Hyderabad, developing it's suburbs for affordable & better accommodation within half an hour commute distance for reverse commute.
The philosophy of Hon'ble CM Shri KCR Garu to use Airport Metro project as an opportunity to facilitate development of city outskirts for providing affordable housing for lower income groups & better accommodation for middle class at lower costs was explained to my engineers
“It’s impossible to build a metro in ppp mode. Hyderabad will never get a metro” - opinion of almost all metro experts. We made impossible possible & proved the experts wrong with guts, passion, perseverance & courage of conviction.
Hitec city-Raidurg metro stretch (1.5km) is ready & CMRS inspection will be done soon. After his safety clearance, the stretch will be inaugurated by Hon’ble Minister for MA&UD Mr KT Rama Rao & Hon’ble Transport Minister Mr P Ajay Kumar in the morning of 29th of this month.
Felt proud & honoured to receive Dr Y Nayudamma Memorial Award 2019 yesterday at IICT, Hyderabad along with Dr Hanuman Chowdary. Dr Nayudamma was my Vice Chancellor when I was a research scholar in JNU, New Delhi & taught us pragmatism when we were in ivory tower intellectualism
Examined the engineering challenges of the difficult Raidurg station to Nanakramguda jn stretch of Airport metro today (18.02.2023) with Mr Subodh Jain, our Adviser (Civil Engineering) & former Member Engineering, Railway Board
Inaugurated a pocket-friendly medical store “Dawaa Dost” today at Khairatabad metro station. It’s one of the 20 odd such stores at metro stations which will sell quality medicines & other pharma products at 15 to 80% discount rates.
Huge crowds thronged metro stations especially Hitec & Durgamcheruvu stns yesterday from 6 pm onwards. Unmanageable crowds could be cleared by 11 pm with extra trains & manpower deployment
Hyderabad Metro will reschedule it’s ops from Monday(21.06.21). First train will start at 7am. Last train will start at terminal stations at 9pm & will reach the destination stations by about 10pm. Passengers are requested to follow Covid protocols.
Vacant Government land parcels would be identified near stations to provide good parking facilities. Multi-armed Skywalks with landings on all sides of junctions will be provided for easy access & to make Airport Metro a preferred commute option
Handling 20 religious structures with patient negotiations in an adroit manner in a communally sensitive Indian city & handling heritage & other sensitive issues - no MIT, Stanford or Harvard can teach you. One needs to be a dexterous leader & not a bureaucrat/manager to do so.
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We have asked L&T top management to procure more trains but it's a time taking exercise. As an interim relief, train frequency is being increased to less than 3 minutes during peak hours & short loop services are introduced. Platform length is also being increased at Ameerpet
The Telangana state Cabinet has approved today (31.07.2023) development of 8 Metro extension Corridors & 4 ORR metro Corridors totalling to 278 km at a cost of about Rs 60,000 cr.
He was in a very jovial mood & when I took him to driver’s cabin, he kept on mentioning the names of different gallis, theatre & road names etc., near different stations of jbs-MGBS corridor.
To expedite grounding of Hyderabad Airport Metro project works, we initiated a number of activities in parallel processing mode. While General Consultant (GC, expert engineering consultants) will be in place by early next month (February)we started survey works simultaneously.
Systra+RITES+DB consortium as the GC for Hyderabad Airport Metro project will deploy 18 specialist experts & about 70 senior and field engineers during construction of the project
Conducted Pre-Application Meeting in Hyderabad on 06.12.2022 wet EoI-cum-RfQ for selection of General Consultant (GC) for the Hyderabad Airport Express Metro project
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As L&T was unable to maintain the wash rooms & there's an increasing public criticism about the maintenance issues, they have handed over the wash rooms to Sulabh international. Hence Rs 2 for urinals/ Rs 5 for toilet usage is being charged.
Some old pictures of surface crack rectification works etc., r being posted/circulated by some persons. As I mentioned, we r closely monitoring the rectification works by L&T & there is no need for pressing panic button.
CMRS Mr Janak kumar Garg conducted the mandatory checks & safety tests over the last 2 days(Tuesday & Wednesday) & issued Safety Certificate for opening of Hitec city-Raidurg stretch of corridor3(blue line) for passenger operations.
As a part of Telangana government’s mass National Anthem singing pmetro trains will be stopped for a minute at 11.30am tomorrow(16th; Tuesday) on as is where is basis and National Anthem will be played in the trains & at the metro stations.
Happy to announce opening of the 4th entry/exit (Arm B on Lemon Tree hotel side) of Raidurg Metro station. This will make it easy for a large number of commuters working in many campuses located in Lemon Tree road.
Addressed the officers & staff of HMRL & HAML and urged them to rededicate themselves to scale greater heights & serve the City, the State & the Nation
Systra+RITES+DB consortium has been chosen as the General Consultants (GC) for Hyderabad Airport Metro project. They were technically the highest scorer & financially L1 with a quote of Rs 98.54 cr. They will provide 18 specialist metro rail engineering experts for the project
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& Mr P. Ajay Kumar will flag off the train at Hitec city station tomorrow at 10.15 am & travel by the train to Raidurg.
Regular passenger services upto Raidurg will start a few hours after that.
Happy to announce that as a part of Ugadi festivities, Hyderabad Metro Rail Concessionaire M/s L&TMRHL has extended the three popular schemes of Super Saver Metro Holiday Card; Metro Student pass; & Super off peak hour offer for the next six months. Happy Ugadi to all.
Happy Ugadi.
Modification & upgradation of the signalling software of Hyderabad metro rail system was recently done. CMRS Mr JK Garg inspected the upgraded system & has now allowed metro trains to be run at the full speed of 80 Kmph instead of earlier limit of 70km.