Hyderabad News: Several shops along Gymkhana-Tumkunta Highway are ready ‘To let’ amid increasing uncertainty over the 200-feet road widening and elevated corridor project under Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB). 

This has become a common sight as hundreds of shops out of thousands of business establishments have already been shut down, the Times of India reported. 

According to Telukunta Satish Gupta, the Chairman of the Rajiv Rahadari Property Owners Joint Action Committee (JAC), "there has been no word either about when the road widening project will start, or details of compensation for affected properties. If the officials show up one day all of a sudden, what are these property owners supposed to do? At least if they close their shops now, they have time to search for alternative places.”

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The elevated corridor project has severely affected the family income of business owners along the highway. Madhusudhan Reddy, who ran a supermarket in Lotkunta until December 2024, said that the project has totally finished his income and he is struggling to buy his ailing father’s medicine. 

According to Reddy, he used to make Rs 1 lakh from the supermarket, but the growing concern over road widening and the elevated corridor project negatively impacted his earnings. 

"I used to get Rs 39,000 every month from my tenants, who used to run two mobile phone shops on Karkhana main road. But as soon as they got to know about the project, they left without serving any notice," Harvinder Kaur Gulati, a resident of Karkhana, was quoted as saying in the report. 

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Despite announcing the road widening and elevated corridor project on November 19, 2024, the authorities haven't provided a start date or details on compensation for property owners who will be affected by the project. This lack of information is causing uncertainty and has degraded in terms of preference for the market for businessmen.