Hyderabad: GHMC standing committee approves hike in park entry fees

The GHMC standing committee has approved a proposal to increase entry fees at city parks. It also cleared streetlight maintenance under the CURE framework, a traffic management system DPR, cloud migration, property acquisition for a road and veterinary hospital reconstruction.

Hyderabad: Entry to the parks in the city maintained by the GHMC is set to cost more with the civic body standing committee approving a proposal to increase entry ticket prices.

The standing committee during its meeting also approved comprehensive streetlight operations and maintenance under the CURE framework, preparation of a detailed project report for an Intelligent Traffic Management System, and migration of GHMC applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud.

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Other approvals included acquisition of 218 properties for a proposed road from the old GHMC limits to MS Grammer Group of Schools at Saheb Nagar and allotment of GHMC land at Keshavagiri for a new Chandrayangutta Police Station.

The standing committee also approved Rs 20 crore for reconstruction of Veterinary Hospital at PVNR Telangana Veterinary University, Bhogiguda.

Special Officer and MAUD Secretary Sarfaraz Ahmed chaired the meeting which was attended by at GHMC Commissioner RV Karnan and senior officials.