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HYDERABAD (Metro Rail News): Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) has won eight prizes in the 6th Telangana Garden Festival 2020 conducted by the State government of Telangana. This includes five first prizes and three-second prizes ‘for development of greenery’ in different categories, its Managing Director, NVS Reddy said.
The MD said, “we have sent eight entries and bagged prizes in all the categories”. He added though HMRL has limited areas, it has developed theme-based gardens and won so many awards and HMRL has been participating in the TS Garden Festival for four years and receiving awards in large numbers.
“HMRL gives top priority for greenery development under the Metro viaducts, besides avenue plantation and thus contributing for the control of pollution in the city”, he added. HMRL’s Senior Horticulture Officer S Sainath received the prizes at a function organised at Public Gardens. The Hyderabad Metro is the only metro project being run and managed by a private player.