Reduce traffic woes, boost healthcare infrastructure: CM to officials | Hyderabad News

Hyderabad: In a bid to improve urban mobility and also reduce traffic congestion in the city, chief minister A Revanth Reddy asked the officials to prepare proposals for Personal Rapid Transit System (PRTS). He asked the officials to develop a PRTS corridor from LB Stadium to Ranigunj bus station via Ambedkar Statue, Indira Park and lower tank bund. Another corridor from the Assembly Metro Station through Ravindra Bharathi, the Secretariat, and IMAX, extending up to Begumpet, will be taken up. The CM asked the officials to immediately take up the proposed PRTS line connecting KPHB Metro Station, Durgam Cheruvu, Raheja Mindspace, and Biodiversity Metro Station, providing seamless connectivity to Hyderabad’s IT corridor, which was already proposed.Revanth Reddy directed officials to complete the tendering process by Dec and ensure that the proposed PRTS corridors are completed within one year from the commencement of work. He emphasised the need for speedy execution to meet Hyderabad’s future transportation requirements.

The CM reviewed the proposed PRTS project at the Bodhi Pavilion, MCR HRD Institute on Thursday. The meeting was attended by Hyderabad Metro Rail MD Sarfaraz Ahmed, Metro additional MD Ajit Reddy, Cyberabad Municipal Corporation commissioner Srujana, GHMC commissioner Karnan, Future City Development Authority commissioner Shashank, and other senior officials.To support the project infrastructure, he instructed the development of a multi-level parking facility at Necklace Road, which will also house a PRTS depot. Another multi-level parking complex with a PRTS depot is planned near IKEA, Gachibowli.‘Expedite TIMS hospitals works’In another review meeting, CM Revanth Reddy has directed officials to complete the construction works of the TIMS hospitals at Alwal and LB Nagar, the Warangal Super Speciality Hospital, and the expansion of NIMS by June 2 next year. He also instructed officials to ensure that the new Osmania General Hospital is completed by Dec 2027 so that it can begin providing medical services to the public.At a review meeting on the health department at MCRHRD on Thursday, the CM asked officials to follow a unified recruitment policy for doctors and other staff at the TIMS hospitals in Sanath Nagar, Alwal, and LB Nagar. He said doctors and staff should be transferable between the three TIMS hospitals depending on medical service requirements.The chief minister suggested that hospital maintenance and housekeeping services should be outsourced. He announced that Group-1 officers would be appointed to supervise TIMS hospitals, and that retired military officers would be engaged to monitor housekeeping staff.Calls for better coordination between NIMS & TIMSAs surgeries at NIMS are reportedly taking considerable time, the CM directed officials to make full use of the Sanath Nagar TIMS hospital. He said Sanath Nagar TIMS should be utilised whenever NIMS faces a shortage of beds or delays in conducting surgeries. He asked the principal secretary of the Medical and Health department and the directors of NIMS and TIMS to coordinate regularly on this matter.“Until the recruitment of doctors at TIMS is completed, officials should hire doctors from outside,” Revanth stated. He assured them that the required funds would be released immediately. He also directed officials to accelerate the recruitment process for doctors and other medical staff.Rise in budget allocationThe chief minister noted that while the health sector received an average allocation of 3.9% of the state budget in the past, the allocation had increased to an average of 4.8% over the last three years.He stated that govt had completed 13,401 recruitments, including doctors, nurses, ANMs, and paramedical staff during the last three years. The recruitment process for another 5,640 positions is currently underway, the CM added.