Army to take up road repair after 2 years of wrangling with GHMC

HYDERABAD: After residents of Yapral organised several protests, including the ‘No road, no vote’ protest held during the December 2020 GHMC elections, finally Army officials agreed to recarpet the road between Hanuman temple junction and Balaji Nagar stretch, which has been completely damaged.
Since more than two years, the locals have been facing severe problems commuting as neither the GHMC nor Army officials had taken up the responsibility to repair the road, which has developed multiple craters.
“We got information from the local Army authorities that they themselves are going to take up road relaying works shortly. They also said that a written communication was sent to GHMC, but we are yet to receive it. The long pending problems of motorists are finally going to be solved,’’ GHMC superintendent engineer (Secunderabad) Anil Raj told STOI.
In the last two years, both the GHMC and the Army literally disowned the road and kept blaming each other, citing jurisdiction issues. After several rounds of meetings between the Army and GHMC officials, it was decided that though the area comes under the GHMC limits, the 2km road stretch belonged to Army.
Malkajgiri MLA M Hanumantha Rao faced several protests from the local residents for his inaction. Subsequently, the local Army authorities wrote to Indian Army, Delhi, to issue a no objection certificate to permit the GHMC to take up recarpeting of the road. “However, the Army has decided to take up the works by itself,” Anil Raj said.