Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Sunday, 7 June 2026, directed officials to commence Phase-2 of the Musi River rejuvenation project — covering the stretch from Nagole to Gourelly — within 100 days, while simultaneously laying foundation stones for development works worth Rs 1,511 crore in Medchal-Malkajgiri district as part of the state's Praja Palana – Pragati Pranalika (People's Governance – Progress Plan) programme.

Context

Revanth Reddy addressed a public gathering at Uppal Bhagayat in Phase III, where he laid the foundation stone for the new Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation office building — to be constructed on 10 acres at a cost of Rs 98 crore. Ministers @OffDSB and Damodar Cilarapu, along with elected representatives, attended the event. The Chief Minister noted that as a former Malkajgiri Lok Sabha MP, he had not been able to deliver the level of development the constituency deserved, and committed to fulfilling that responsibility now as Chief Minister.

On the Musi River, he clarified the sequencing: the first phase of works has already commenced from Gandipet to Gandhi Sarovar, and the next phase covering Nagole to Gourelly must begin within 100 days. He invoked comparisons with the Sabarmati Riverfront in Gujarat, the Yamuna Riverfront in Delhi, and the Ganga clean-up in Uttar Pradesh, asking why Hyderabad's 55-kilometre Musi stretch should be left behind.

Policy Backdrop

The Rs 1,511 crore package in Medchal-Malkajgiri includes: an alternative road network at the AOC Centre at Rs 960 crore; a six-lane flyover at TKR College Junction at Rs 416 crore; and a 100-bed Malkajgiri District Hospital at Rs 37.50 crore. The Chief Minister also launched the CURE-1 app — the Common Unified Billing and Collection System — designed to streamline civic billing and collections across the metropolitan region.

The event sits within the broader Telangana Vision 2047 framework, which designates the 2,100 sq km area inside the Outer Ring Road (ORR) as the CURE (Core Urban Regional Economy) zone. To ease administration of this zone — which houses 1.34 crore residents and multiple international companies — the government has decentralised governance into three corporations: Hyderabad, Cyberabad, and Malkajgiri. The police system has been similarly reorganised.

Malkajgiri previously straddled gram panchayats, municipalities, corporations, and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), creating four overlapping administrative layers that the Chief Minister said had blocked coordinated development for years.

Stakeholders and Impact

Communities along the Musi basin bear the direct burden of the river's degradation. The Chief Minister described residents in the catchment area as living in 'unbearable conditions' due to sewage, industrial effluents, and solid waste. Downstream, Nalgonda district — already grappling with a fluoride contamination crisis — faces compounding harm from Musi pollution. He assured that no poor family would be displaced without rehabilitation: 'We will not render any poor person homeless. Those who lose homes will be given homes. Their children will be given good education.'

On Hyderabad Metro expansion, the Chief Minister said the city needs 122 km of new metro lines in all directions and outlined specific corridors: Nagole to LB Nagar, via Owaisi Hospital and Rajendranagar to the international airport, and LB Nagar to Hayathnagar. He questioned why Union ministers representing Telangana were not supporting metro expansion, the Regional Ring Road, and Musi rejuvenation, and appealed for all-party cooperation on urban development.

What's Next

The 100-day clock for Musi Phase-2 work between Nagole and Gourelly is now the most immediate benchmark to watch. The formal operationalisation of the three new municipal corporations and the rollout of the CURE-1 app across civic bodies will be early tests of the administrative decentralisation plan. Any formal response from the Union government on metro expansion funding and approvals will determine whether the 122-km metro vision advances on schedule. The Chief Minister also indicated that a statue of the late Bandari Rajireddy — a local figure associated with the Uppal Elevated Corridor — would be installed at a prominent junction in the area.