High Speed Metro Rail Connectivity To Hyderabad Airport

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metro Rail service that would be extended via Raidurg to the International Airport at Shamshabad will be high speed connectivity and it is said that it would travel at the speed of 100 kmph. This felicitates the riders to reach the destination in flat 20 minutes. Popularly referred as Airport Express or Airport Metro would have advanced technology that supersedes the ordinary metro rail.

Recently, the state government has set up special purpose vehicle (SPV) to extend the Hyderabad Metro Rail's services to the international airport at Shamshabad. "For immediate implementation of the Airport Express Metro corridor from Biodiversity Park to the Shamshabad airport with extension of Corridor-III, Raidurg to Biodiversity Park (30.7km), and to develop townships near new metro stations en route the airport corridor, Managing Director (MD), HMRL, has submitted a proposal for creation of a SPV," the communiqué from HMRL informed. HMRL will have 51 per cent share in the SPV and HMDA a bit less than 49 per cent, the order said.

The SPV has been named "Hyderabad Airport Metro Limited (HAML)" and Chief Secretary S K Joshi is its chairman and HMRL, MD, N V S Reddy its managing director, according to the order. HAML shall be incorporated with an authorised share capital of Rs 100 lakh, divided into 10 lakh equity shares of Rs 10 each, it said. The HMRL had launched the Phase-I of the project last year.