Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday appealed to the railway authorities to start a bullet train service from Hyderabad to Andhra Pradesh’s capital Amaravati and even to Chennai.
Amaravati is currently being developed as AP’s new capital and is the brainchild of Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu. Post bifurcation of AP and Telangana, even though Hyderabad was technically a joint capital between both states, Naidu in his first term as AP chief minister decided to build Amaravati and moved the government to AP.
At a meeting with railway officials on Thursday, September 11, Revanth Reddy said that he favoured a railway line which would connect to the greenfield highway from the proposed ‘Bharat Future City’ here to the Machilipatnam port in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh via Amaravati.
It may be noted that this is the first time a chief minister from either Telangana or AP has mooted a railway line between both capitals. As of now, there are direct bus services, otherwise people have to take flights to Vijaywada to reach Amaravati in AP.
Stating that the Telangana government will provide full support for the speedy completion of pending railway projects and railway lines, Revanth Reddy appealed to the railway authorities to sanction the project of rapid road and rail connectivity between Hyderabad and Amaravati.
He stated that a rapid road and rail connectivity between Hyderabad and Amaravati under the AP Reorganization act was promised. “The CM briefed the officials that the government has already requested the centre for a 12-lane greenfield highway from Bharat Future City to Bandar Port via Amaravati,” said a press release from Revanth Reddy’s office.
He also stressed on the need to develop a railway network between the metro cities, CM Revanth and suggested railway officials to examine the survey and alignment proposals of the Hyderabad-Chennai and Hyderabad-Bengaluru high-speed rail projects in accordance with the newly developed greenfield highway proposals.
The Telangana CM felt that the establishment of a regional ring rail and regional ring road on a stretch of 362 kilometres will transform Hyderabad into a “happening city in the country” and requested railway officials to take necessary steps for the specific project.
He also suggested to the railway officials to sanction more railway lines to Warangal so that the city will be developed along with Hyderabad to meet the future needs. The CM also appealed to the officials to develop a new route from Bhupalpally to Warangal and take up development works at Kazipet Junction as per the needs of passengers.
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