India, Oct. 5 -- The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has cancelled the planned network of flyovers and underpasses around KBR Park. The civic body's Standing Committee has cleared a single elevated corridor from Punjagutta to Jubilee Hills in their place.

The scrapped plan was sanctioned in October 2024 at Rs 826 crore, and its cost was later revised to Rs 1,090 crore. It covered seven steel flyovers and seven underpasses at junctions around the park. Hyderabad Mail reported the two phases were estimated at Rs 580 crore and Rs 510 crore.

Construction had begun before the plan was dropped. Hyderabad Mail reported that workers had started building pillars from the LV Prasad Eye Institute side towards the KBR Park intersection. Pil...