Rao asks officials to draw up detailed project report

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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today asked officials to prepare a detailed project report for developinga regional ring road on the other side of the existing outer ring road in Hyderabad.

Rao, who held a meeting with officials, said the proposed ring road should bedeveloped on par with international standards, a release from his office said.

He also said he would speak to central government officials concerned for obtaining funds for the construction of the proposed ring road, it said.

There will be increase of commuters from every nook and corner regularly to Hyderabad, the release quoted Rao as saying.

As the existing outer ring road will not be adequate for the floating traffic in future, government decided for constructing the regional ring road,it said.

The regional ring road would be laid at a stretch of 338 km covering SangareddyGajwelChowtuppal-MalKadthal- ShadnagarChevellaKandi (on the outskirts of Hyderabad), it said.

"The width of the road will be 500 feet. The proposed regional ring road should surpass the existing Mumbai-Pune, Ahmedabad-Vadodara express highways.The junction roads connecting Vijayawada, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Nagpur are to be developed," it said.