Those who love waking up at dawn listening to the chirpy birds, this neighbourhood is certainly the dream destination.
The picturesque beauty of Adarsa Nagar Colony, spread over 10 acres, is like a whiff of fresh air amidst the urban jungle as several trees dot the steep lanes across the residential hub.
Except a couple of buildings in the year 1980, the area belonging to Simhachalam Devasthanam, now has 95 houses, where more than 500 people reside.
With spacious parking lots, plenty of groundwater and municipal water, the plots were bought by members of the Ore Handling Plant Employees’ Cooperative House Building Society Ltd from a farmer. Later, the society got its plots approved by the Director of Town Planning, Hyderabad.
“It took almost three months to level the hilly area and convert it into a residential colony. With considerable share of funds contributed by the society members, a few roads have also been laid by us,” says G. Ramam, a retired VPT employee and secretary of the Adarsa Nagar Colony Residents’ Welfare Association.
The signboard at the entrance leads one to the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant quarters set in a hilly area of H.B. Colony. As you trek further up the steep lanes, the silence of the neighbourhood gets intense.
It is this trait that made C. Sravanthi, a B.Tech graduate, fall in love with the locality.
“I have been living here since childhood. The place has its own charm. I have a few friends who meet every evening to play shuttle. While boys engage themselves in cricket, children get engrossed in outdoor games,” she says.
Here, it is a necessity to own a vehicle as navigating the steep roads is an uphill task.
Women know how to keep themselves occupied. “We meet every Thursday at one of our friend’s house and do mass chanting of ‘Vishnu Sahasranamam’ and ‘Lalita Sahasranamam’, apart from organising Bhagavad Gita discourses,” says B. Meenakshi, a retired employee of Vigilance and Enforcement Department and a resident of the colony for the past two decades.
