GHMC to modernise 300 Hyderabad bus bays

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is contemplating to construct 300 modernised bus-bays in the city with highly sophisticated facilities. The bus-bays would have facilities like free WiFi, modern public toilets, ‘any time water’ kiosks, FM radio, comfortable seating and proper illumination besides a provision for allowing electronic streaming of bus timings and routes.

Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Minister K Taraka Rama Rao during the last week held a meeting with the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) and GHMC officials



and asked the team to improve civic infrastructure in the shortest possible time to make Hyderabad a global city. 

He also sought the officials’ to give short and long-term recommendations to modernise bus-bays in the city. The team, after their New Delhi tour to study about bus-bays, has proposed the government to take up the bus-bays modernisation in 300 locations across the city.

He said that the construction of 300 modernised bus-bays would be completed in six months and in less than one year all the remaining bus stops would be modernised.