The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) Board, chaired by its Chairman and CM Kiran Kumar Reddy, on Monday approved two major projects - an inter-city bus terminal at Miyapur and logistics parks at Batasingaram & Mangalapally. The HMDA board also approved an extension on the receiving of suggestions and objections to the draft blueprint for the Hyderabad Metropolitan Plan-2031 by a month to February 21.

AP Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who is also the HMDA board chairman, directed officials to get the draft master plan translated into Urdu for greater inclusiveness. The chief minister chaired the authority's fourth meeting and reviewed the projects being taken up by it. He also asked officials to complete all new projects as per schedule. The inter-city bus terminal at Miyapur would be taken up under the public private partnership (PPP) mode. It would have one lakh square feet built up area, passenger terminals with 200 bus bays, platforms for out-station buses, parking space for 1,000 buses, 30 bus bays for city buses, fuel filling stations, dormitories for drivers, two, three and four-wheeler parking, budget hotel, medical and emergency facilities, police outpost and restaurants.

The meeting also approved a logistics park on 40 acres at Batasingaram on Vijayawada highway (NH-9). The park would have parking facilities for 500 trucks, two lakh sq.ft warehousing facility, 10,000 metric tonne (MT) capacity of cold storage provision, automobile service centres, dormitories, restaurants, fuel stations, commercial and office space, electronic weigh bridge and primary health centre. Another logistics park at Mangalpally on Nagarjunasagar highway (about 500 meters from Outer Ring Road near Bonguluru junction) on 22 acres of land has been approved by the board. The Mangalpally park would have parking facilities for 250 trucks, one lakh sq.ft warehousing facilities, cold storage facilities for 5000 MTs, automobile service centres, dormitories, restaurants, fuel stations, commercial and office spaces.