- For Line-2, the govt seems to have told the DMRC that the Purani Haveli Road in the old city is under road widening for Charminar pedestrianisation project. (In fact, this road has nothing to do with that. The local strongman, MIM party, has forced the state govt to change the route to avoid this road. The HMR authorities announced the change initially but later retracted after the agitation in Sultan Bazaar demanding a change of the route (in the same Line-2).
- Threat to Gun Park: The Assembly metro station to be located in the traffic island between the Assembly building and All India Radio building (there is no other traffic island here other than the Gun Park) (Located near Public Gardens, Gun Park is a martyr's memorial built for the 369 students who died in the firing in the 1969 agitation for separate statehood of Telangana. The monument was named as Gun Park, because of government's using of guns against an agitation. The Park over the years has become symbolic to the Telangana agitation (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Park 12 July 2011).
- Madhura Nagar station (DPR-2006) is to be located in a women’s welfare institute popularly known as State Home in about 2.5 acres of area by deviating from the road. That would have totally ruined the State Home. After this the corridor would have run through several residential apartments. (The authorities seem to have made it go along the road now).
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