Telangana minister K T Rama Rao has appealed to the Union government to “get the Hyderabad Metro Rail Phase-2 project proposal examined dispassionately on the merits of the DPR and have it approved at an early date.”
A controversy has erupted in Hyderabad over the alleged denial of approval for phase-2 of the project by the Centre. On Tuesday, Rama Rao – or KTR as he is known – underlined “pure discrimination against Telangana” in his letter to the Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri who holds the Housing and Urban Affairs portfolio. “If the traffic of Hyderabad’s high-density corridors does not qualify for a metro rail project,
