: Telangana IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao on Sunday requested the Central government to provide financial assistance to Hyderabad Pharma City.
Rama Rao has written to Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan in this regard, said an official press release.
In the letter to Goyal, KTR, as Rama Rao is also known as, requested the Centre to provide a grant-in-aid of Rs 1,318 crore for the implementation of the external infrastructure linkages and Rs 2,100 crore for the project towards Phase-1 internal infrastructure development.
The Hyderabad Pharma City project has been integrated as a priority node of the proposed Hyderabad Warangal Industrial Corridor project and a feasibility study on it has also been completed as per the the National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust (NICDIT) guidelines, the release said.
According to KTR, the project would be the