Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2012 - 02:01 am:

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Indiarocks:

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Posted on Monday, August 06, 2012 - 12:38 pm:

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Yodha:

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The story of the HITEC City Flover

The flyover was sanctioned in 2007. As is usual with government projects, the route was checked only superficially and it was not completely analyzed. The construction commenced.

When the construction approached the railway lines, the railway department got involved and objected. Since the flyover would go over their proposed electric lines, they put a hurdle that the construction cannot proceed. Now we have a deadlock.

This is when JP got elected (2009). JP and team realized that political pressure will not work because the railway department will simply show the rules that the existing design violates the railway rules.

We now started pushing the HMDA department to come-up with an alternate design. HDMA agreed to start working on the alternate design. It took a few months to see this through and in an example of what we were doing in the interim, JP had to make nearly 40 phone calls to get the design file passed. The design was approved in mid-2011.

Now we have the design but there is no budget. We had to find sources for the funds within the department. In a specific instance which all volunteers remember, we had to move between 4 offices on a single day like a chase scene in a movie to get signatures from four principal secretaries. Finally in October 2011, we have the money.

We have a new design and the budget and the next step is for all the departments to agree to it. But the rivalry is so high that it took months and months of effort and meetings to make them sit and agree to all aspects. This finally happened in 2012.

2012: Things are set as of now and all indications are that the flyover will be complete this year. JP also met the CM twice to ensure that there are no more delays.

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Posted on Monday, August 06, 2012 - 12:16 pm:

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Indiarocks:

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