Old City metro work to begin within two months, says Revanth Reddy

Work on the Old City metro line, running from Gowliguda to Chandrayangutta, is due to start within two months, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said in Hyderabad on Wednesday, 11 November. In the same speech he gave the Mir Alam Tank a one-year deadline to become a destination for visitors.

Revanth Reddy was addressing the National Education Day and Minorities Welfare Day function held by the state minorities department at Sevalal Banjara Bhavan in Banjara Hills, on the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India’s first education minister. The state government released his remarks the same evening.

A 7.5-km line for south Hyderabad

Hyderabad Metro Rail describes the Old City corridor as a 7.5-km corridor running from the Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station (MGBS) to Chandrayangutta. In April 2025 the metro agency put the number of properties hit by road widening along the route at 1,100, and said building work would follow once the Centre cleared the project.

The Chief Minister said the Musi riverfront works would also start soon, and that a night-time economy along the river would open jobs for young people living nearby. He called the old quarter “not the Old City, but the Original City”, and said the government had taken steps to restore it.

Mir Alam Tank, houses and quotas

The Mir Alam deadline follows a surprise visit Revanth Reddy made to the lake on 27 August, when he was taken up by crane to see a suspension bridge under construction. At the time he told officials to keep sewage out of the tank, widen the drain that carries floodwater to the Musi, plan water sports and develop the islands in the lake.

He said one lakh Indiramma houses would come up in Hyderabad for poor families. Minorities, he said, make up 15 per cent of India’s population, and he recalled the 4 per cent reservation the state provides to them on the lines of the Sachar Committee report.

On education, he said industrial training institutes had been turned into Advanced Technology Centres, and that the state had set up a Skills University and the Young India Sports University. He asked parents to keep children in school and to guide those less keen on books towards skills training or sport.

Ministers Mohammad Azharuddin and Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy attended. The government’s release named no exact start date or contractor for the metro works.