Sunday, April 30, 2006

AP Cabinet clears land allotment for various companies

Hyderabad
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet has cleared allotment of 150 acres of land for IT major Infosys Technologies Ltd at Mamidipally and Kancha Imarat villages in Ranga Reddy districts. The land will be sold at Rs. 12 lakhs an acre.

Earlier in March infosys signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Andhra Pradesh to expand its presence in Hyderabad in 550 acres of land. The Government of Andhra Pradesh has already identified 150 acres for Infosys and the balance of 400 acres will be identified in the near future.

Raheja, Indu Projects and Brahmani Infotech have also been allotted 250 acres each in the same villages. They would be part of an integrated IT SEZ providing employment to about 1,35,000 professionals.

The Army Welfare Association has been given 15 acres at Jawaharnagar near Shamirpet near Hyderabad to establish an army institute of medical sciences.

Visakhapatnam
Brandix, a garment giant, would get 1,000 acres at Atchyutapuram for a 25-year lease at Rs. 5 lakhs an acre to develop a garment city with an outlay of Rs. 50 crores and provide jobs 60,000 people. In line with the MoU, the Cabinet also approved the release of Rs. 12.5 crores to develop infrastructure for the project.

An extent of 10 acres has been allotted at Chinnadadila near the city to Apollo Hospitals at the rate of Rs. 2 crores an acre for setting up a super speciality hospital.


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Hindu

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Hyderabad Outer Ring road

The Govt. of AP, proposed major infrastructure facilities in Hyderabad city and one of them is. the orbital linkage to decongest the traffic flow on the existing major arterials. The Outer Ring Road should be viewed as road -cum- area development project since the aim is the development of well planned and well connected Urban settlements around the Hyderabad Metropolitan area.

The 159 km long ring road connects Patancheru- Shamshabad- Hayathnagar- Medchal Patancheru providing connectivity to various State Highway and National Highways, to by pass the city of Hyderabad.

The importance of the proposed corridor being
1. Relieves congestion on metropolitan area and inner ring road and meets the future demand
2. Provides orbital linkage to radial arterial roads
3. Creates options for development of the further satellite townships
4. Provides linkage to the proposed MRTS and Bus system
5. Provides quick access to the International Airport from Strategic parts of the city
6. Connects various new urban nodes outside the city like Hi- Tech city , Games village, lIlT, ISB, Hardware Park, Singapore Township Financial district etc.,

Considering the anticipated growth in the region and development of the proposed satellite townships around the ring road and beyond, and the traffic thereby generated, an 8-lane divided carriage way is planned for a design life of 20 years.

The project is proposed to be implemented in 2 phases and is estimated to cost Rs 3000 Crores.
 Construction of 22 Km of Phase-I from Gachibouli In to Shamshabad NH 7 In. (Rs 500 Crores).
 Construction of 140 km of Phase-II (Rs 2500 Crores).

Source

Official website hyderabadouterringroad

Friday, April 28, 2006

Hyderabad metro – update 29/04/06

S. Jaipal Reddy(Union Urban Development Minister) - expressed hope that the Metro project for Hyderabad would start within the current financial year. Assuring technical and financial support from the Centre, he said the project should be a reality on the lines of Delhi Metro.

E. Sreedharan (Delhi Metro chief) - said compared to other cities, Hyderabad Metro had many positive features. The city had already undertaken widening of roads and the envisaged Metro route did not have any underground sections and the city was located in a quake-safe zone. Delays in decision-making would only push up the cost of the project.

Mr. Shabbir Ali - said the State Government proposed to take up three-line, 60 km project in the first phase of the estimated Rs. 7,000-crore project. The three lines were Miyapur- Chaitanyapuri (26 km and 25 stations), Secunderabad- Falaknuma (13 km, 14 stations) and Tarnaka- Shilparamam (21 km and 20 stations).


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Hindu

ATI Technologies increases operations in Hyderabad

ATI Technologies has announced that it expanded and moved to a new 48,000-square foot facility in Hyderabad.

The company would be investing $75 million in the Hyderabad centre.

The company will be doubling its headcount to more than 350 hardware professionals in the next 12 months

Hyderabad facility focuses on research and development of next generation audio and digital media products.

(note: Hyderabad center is currently working on developing chipsets for cell phones, high-definition TVs and set-top boxes)

Links
ATI
Televisionpoint

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Hyderabad in News

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