Hyderabad Pharma City' will come up in an area of 19333 acres

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday announced the establishment of a massive industrial park dedicated to pharmaceutical manufacturing activities.

The proposed 'Hyderabad Pharma City' will come up in an area of 11,000 acres at Mucherla in the neighbouring Rangareddy district and will be designed as a self-contained facility with residential townships for people working there in addition to a pharmaceutical university and a research centre among other things. Pharma City Srisailam Highway

Gated Community Plots near Pharma City

 The Project is a high-end residential project launched by Fortune Infra Developers. The project was launched in November 2011 in Kadthal, Hyderabad and got completed and possession started from May 2015. The massive project comprises of 516 plots launched till date and built over an area of 100 Acres. As per the builder, the price of the plots range between Rs 7.42 lakhs to Rs 18.00 lakhs. The plots are available in various sizes. Plots plots near pharma city hyderabad 

These are 1485 square feet, 1800 square feet, 2403 square feet, 2700 square feet, 3150 square feet, 3600 square feet, 3906 square feet, 4500 square feet, 4509 square feet, 5058 square feet and 9000 square feet built-up area. This residential project comes replete with many premium amenities. These include club house, cafeteria, jogging track, 24X7 security, Vaastu complaince, ATM, Indoor Games, Internet /Wifi, Library, Tennis Court, etc. The Kadthal area is well connected to various parts of the city by rail, road and bus network. The International Airport is at approximately 40kms. There are several schools and hospitals in the area. The closest school in the area is UPS School, Kadthal located at approximately 3 km.

Hyderabad Pharma City Ltd — has been set up to implement the project

 “The impact of industrial pollution on the lives of people in the region is well documented. These units have played havoc with public health. The groundwater in the region remains highly polluted while the incidence of pollution-related diseases including asthma and bronchitis is high in nearby villages,” said S Ramakrishna, an activist with local NGO “Forum for Better Hyderabad.”

The Industries Minister counters this argument, saying the industrial units that had come up in the late 1970s and 19080s did not invest in anti-pollution technologies whereas the proposed Pharma City is a completely pollution-free initiative that will set new international benchmarks.

“This will be a first-of-its-kind project featuring state-of-the-art infrastructure, common facilities including Zero Liquid Discharge-based Common Effluent Treatment Plant, an integrated solid waste management facility, district heating and cooling systems, logistic parks, a Global Pharma University, regulatory facilitation cells, common drug development and testing laboratories, and start-up and SME hub,” KTR said, Click here

The ultimate objective of the pharma city, he claimed, was to make Hyderabad the preferred global pharma destination and to bring down the prices of medicines to make them affordable to the poor.

In December last year, the Centre had granted National Investment Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) status to the project. The final approval was given based on the techno-economic feasibility study and development plan submitted by the state government.

A Special Purpose Vehicle — Hyderabad Pharma City Ltd — has been set up to implement the project.

Hyderabad’s Pharma City project

 Brushing aside environmental concerns, the Telangana government is set to fast track the mega Pharma City project on the Hyderabad-Warangal highway to host pharma firms, research and development centres, and a pharma university, making it a one-stop cluster for pharma and healthcare companies and service providers.

The decision is based on the assessment that several pharma suppliers could shift out of China post-COVID-19 and that it is ideal time to attract them into the state and to consolidate Hyderabad’s pre-eminent position in the pharma sector. Plots near Pharmacity

However, the project, to be located at about 50 kms from the city, has raised the hackles of environmentalists who warn that it could destroy the natural ecosystem, polluting air, water and land.

“Given the past experience, we are extremely worried about the public health hazards that the proposed Pharma City will cause. There is bound to be further deterioration of the environment,” noted environmentalist activist Prof Purushotham Reddy said.

Global cluster

Having already acquired 8,400 acres for the project, the government is now planning to acquire another 6,800 acres over the next three months. The entire project is being planned in three phases, spread over 19,333 acres, and targeted for completion by 2025, as per the masterplan of the Hyderabad Pharma City (HPC) project.

Sources say that the government is keen on rolling out phase-I by this year-end, to cash in on the greater demand for drug and vaccine formulations and pharma and life sciences sectors in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic.

“We are setting a new international benchmark for smart, sustainable and integrated industrial development model here. We are not competing with any other state but with China and the rest of the world,” the State Industries Minister K T Rama Rao said.