Park coming up near Quli Qutubshah tombs

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, NOV. 6. The Quli Qutubshah Urban Development Authority (QQUDA) is setting up a park spread over an area of 70 acres abutting the tombs. To be christened Deccan Park, it will cost over Rs.1 crore. It will be the biggest such greenery spot in the twin cities. An entry fee of Rs.50 per head will be charged.

The park will have various attractions such as a toy train, a central channel with 28 row fountains, a swimming pool complex with musical fountain, a boating lake with four boats and a kiddy pool.

The park would be inaugurated this month by the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, who is also the Chairman of the authority, Mr. J.R. Anand, QQUDA administrator, told newsmen here on Monday. The toy train, with six bogies, could seat 55 persons. Being assembled at a cost of Rs.30 lakhs, it moves on a one and a half km long track.

Mr. Anand, who took press persons round several works being taken up by the QQUDA, said that the boating lake, in which initially four boats were being introduced, had scope for a maximum of eight boats. This lake and the kiddy pool would be of interest to children. The QQUDA had laid roads inside the park.

He said the QQUDA had handed over the three km Puranapul- Mogalkanala Road to the MCH. This road would save a lot of travelling for the residents of Mehdipatnam to reach Puranapul and other areas in Old city. It would also ease pressure of traffic on the Nayapul and Muslimjung bridge.

The QQUDA, Mr. Anand stated, had also completed about 1.7 km stretch of the three km Chaderghat-Amberpet Causeway. It had also been handed over to the MCH.

He brushed aside the recent allegations levelled by State Archaeology department authorities that the QQUDA was digging near the tombs. All that QQUDA staff had done was to lift red sand under its control for filling breaches in the Idgah grounds caused by the recent heavy rain, he said.

He charged that Archaeology authorities with overlooking the encroachments in 28 acres of Government land near the tombs. About 14 acres had already been occupied by land-sharks and several houses built as part of the Diamond Hills Colony or enclave, he said.

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