Hyderabad’s Uppal area is set to get a new city bus terminal within 100 days, with the Telangana government beginning construction of a Rs 3.22-crore facility expected to handle 1,053 bus trips and serve nearly one lakh passengers daily.
Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar laid the foundation stone at the Uppal Zonal Workshop on Saturday. The terminal is being developed with financial support from the Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation and is intended to ease commuting difficulties for residents of Uppal, Boduppal and Peerzadiguda.
According to Telangana State Road Transport Corporation Managing Director Y Nagireddy, the new facility will be used exclusively for city bus services. District services to destinations including Yadagirigutta, Warangal and the erstwhile Nalgonda district will continue to operate from the existing Uppal bus station.
The separation of city and district services is expected to give the new terminal a defined operational role within the local bus network. The facility will also include a dedicated bus pass counter and an enquiry centre, adding passenger-service functions alongside bus operations.
The terminal is planned to improve connectivity from the surrounding localities to Secunderabad, Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad’s IT corridor and Patancheru. These connections cover major employment, commercial and interchange destinations across the city, although the supplied announcement does not specify route changes, new services or revised schedules.
The project comes as residents in Hyderabad’s expanding eastern suburbs depend on bus services to connect residential areas with employment centres and other parts of the metropolitan region. Uppal, Boduppal and Peerzadiguda have grown as connected urban areas, increasing the importance of facilities that can manage passenger movement close to where city services originate and terminate.
The expected daily volume of 1,053 bus trips indicates that the terminal is planned as a substantial city-bus facility rather than a small local stop. Its projected reach of nearly one lakh passengers also places passenger circulation, information services and access arrangements at the centre of its operational requirements. Details on the terminal’s layout, platform capacity, parking arrangements and construction agency have not been provided in the announcement.
The project is being implemented at the Uppal Zonal Workshop, while the existing Uppal bus station will retain district operations. This division means the two facilities will continue to serve different categories of services in the same broader transport area. The government has set a 100-day completion target, but the announcement does not provide an exact inauguration date or a phased construction schedule.
The next formal milestone is the completion of construction within the announced 100-day period. Until the new terminal becomes operational, city and district bus services will continue under the existing arrangement, with district services remaining at the current Uppal bus station.
