The elevated expressway, which cost Rs 600 crore and passing through many congested routes, will provide a faster and rather trouble-free travel to the new airport, which is 27 kilometres away from Hyderabad city.

The expressway from Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital to Aramgarh will cut down the travel on the route by 30-40 minutes.

The flyover, constructed by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority, is planned to be named after the late P V Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister.

According to Anam Ramnarayan Reddy, Andhra Pradesh Minister for Municipal Administration, the 11.6-kilometre-long, 4-lane carriageway has been constructed with the state-of-the-art technology, using the segmental-type, post-tensioned construction of super structure.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah will inaugurate the flyover next week. Trial runs are being carried out now.

While the actual cost of the flyover is Rs 439 crore, the rest Rs 161 crore was spent in acquiring land for shifting utilities.

The officials of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority say that the major components of the flyover project like Underpass on National Highway-7 at the Aramghar Junction, widening and strengthening of the Atgrade IRR from Rethibowli to Aramghar from 4 lanes to 6 lanes, and the Trumpet Interchange have been completed.

Also completed are minor protection works such as speed-breakers, hazard-markers, railings, streetlights, signages, placing of median slabs, and bitumen surface.

In the meantime, there are reports that a hitch of a political kind is delaying the inauguration of the elevated expressway, which was ready about 10 days ago – that there has been covert move from certain quarters to rename the expressway after the late Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR) who died recently in a helicopter crash. In fact, Rajasekhara Reddy had announced October 2, 2009, as the deadline for the completion of the flyover project.

The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is leading the opposition to naming of the expressway after P V Narasimha Rao since the party believes that Narasimha Rao was responsible for the demolition of the Babri masjid.

Work on the expressway, which began in September 2006, was intended to be completed in 26 months, but it got delayed, till it was finally completed about 10 days ago.

This is the highest certification from BSI for Information Security, which consists of IT along with Information Technology and Communications, Human Resource, Facilities and Administration (Operations), Finance/Legal, Physical & Environmental Security and Technical Services.

Mr. P.S.Nair, Chief Executive Officer of GHIAL was in the best of spirits, “We are the first airport in India to get the ISO 27001 certification. The certification shows that GHIAL is complying with Global Information Security standards and is committed to ensure that the airport’s security is top notch. With the ISMS
(Information Security Management System) implementation the airport security has increased significantly. It also shows a high degree of maturity of GHIAL’s IT organization.” he proudly said.

Echoing Mr. P.S.Nair’s comments, Mr. A.Viswanath, Chief Commercial Officer, GHIAL, said , “At GHIAL, our constant endeavour is to promote application of the best technologies of information business and its protection, so as to create trust amongst our business partners and at the same time, assuring the success of our business operations.”

“The Information Technology at RGIA has improved productivity and has immensely helped the Airport users particularly the Airlines and passengers.” he added.

ISO 27001 is a global standard for setting and management of Information Security Management Systems (ISMS).

Appin Security Group operates the Security Operations Center for GHIAL, and is responsible for the various security processes and procedures which enabled GHIAL to get the requisite certification.

GHIAL’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport now becomes one of the first airports in South and South East Asia, to be certified as ISO 27001 compliant. Till now very few airports around the world are ISO 27001 certified.