The IT corridor only got more Hitech. From Monday, techies can walk through a fibre-optic styled Foot Over Bridge (FoB) and draw money from a highly secured bus stop.
The two modern facilities are first in the line-up of more such facilities which will come up across Cyberbabad. While the FoB is located on the financial district main road in Gachibowli the bus stop is situated on the same stretch, bang opposite Infosys campus. Both the facilities will have round-the-clock surveillance cameras linked to the Cyberabad police commissionerate.
Inaugurating the facilities, IT Minister K.T. Rama Rao said a slew of projects are being planned for the welfare of IT employees. “The FoB and the bus stop are aimed at providing better services to IT professionals. Four FoBs will come up in the IT corridor soon and we plan to construct more. We are taking up projects with special focus on women’s safety and also to ease traffic in Cyberabad. We will widen roads and also strengthen public transport by introducing more buses in these routes.”
The FoB is equipped with escalators on both sides and security guards manning the place. The bus shelter is centrally air conditioned with an ATM facility and a drinking water dispenser. The facility will also have information pertaining to bus route plan with route numbers. Both the projects were completed under PPP (Public Private Partnership) model by Prakash Arts for a period of 20 years. The project cost of FoB is Rs. 3 crore and it is Rs. 20 lakh for bus shelter.
M.V. Surendranath, Prakash Arts COO, said that the project was important for them considering the growth potential of the area. The agency was also toying with the idea of constructing bus stops compatible with solar energy in the near future.
