Hyderabad | Gadkari assures big boost for highways in TS

HYDERABAD, JANUARY 4:  

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari today announced a number of road projects with a total outlay of over Rs. 40,800 crore, including two expressways from Hyderabad to Bangalore and Amaravati.

A detailed project report for development of Expressways between Hyderabad and Bangalore (550 km) and Hyderabad and Vijayawada (Amaravati 270 km), with potential investment outlay of Rs. 16,000 crore will soon be prepared. Apart from that about Rs. 25,000 crore would be invested in development of highways in the State, he said.

Speaking to reporters here today, the Union Minister said that the Centre was open to considering more projects if proposed by the State, in addition to some of the already under consideration projects. He said that the investment number is yet to be finalised as this could go up depending upon other proposals.

Gadkari, who had a luncheon meeting with the State Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, assured him all necessary support in taking up more highway projects in the State.

Responding to TS Government request to support the development of inland waterways, Gadkari said that the NDA Government was keen on development of waterways and assured to look into the proposals made by the State. A dry port is under consideration for development in Telangana.

The Centre was considering a multi-modal hub on Godavari, which will have a dry port, national highway network connectivity and inland waterway connection.

He was in Telangana to formally lay the foundation stone for four-lane highway project between Yadadri and Warangal section of national highway and inauguration of a major bridge across river Godavari on Hyderabad-Bhoopalapatanam section of National Highway 163 at Madikonda village of Warangal.

Source :  Businessline 

Google Campus Set to Change IT Face of Hyderabad

NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD:Adding another feather to its cap, the pearl city can soon boast of housing the only own campus of  IT giant Google in entire Asia. This will also be the biggest facility of Google, outside the United States of America (USA). With the Google CEO, Sundar Pichai’s official announcement of setting up Google’s new campus in Hyderabad on Wednesday, the Telangana government’s aggressive industrial policy has made one of its biggest achievements so far.

Following Pichai’s announcement in New Delhi, K T Rama Rao, IT Minister of Telangana, thanked him for choosing Hyderabad for the company’s expansion plans in India. “Thanks Sunder Pichai for reiterating commitment to Hyderabad,” the Minister tweeted. 

During the visit of the IT minister to Silicon Valley in USA, a few months ago, the State government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Google, according to which 7.2 acres of land in Gachibowli has been allotted for its new campus.

Google agreed to invest Rs 1,000 crore in the project in four years. As per the agreement, the new facility of Google will be developed in a sprawling 2 million square feet campus in the middle of the IT Corridor of Hyderabad. Google is expecting the facility to be operational by 2019.

The new campus in Hyderabad, is also going to double its employee count. Sunder Pichai, who was in New Delhi on Wednesday, announced that Hyderabad is one of the cities where Google is planning to recruit more employees. Bengaluru is another Indian city that will see recruitment by the company. Google had already announced that it would launch India’s first ‘Street View’ project in Hyderabad.  Reacting to the announcement, IT Secretary of Telangana, Jayesh Ranjan, said, “The ground work has already been done. Once the necessary clearances are obtained, it can be launched.”

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