On Thursday at 5.22 am, which adds up to 9 believed to be lucky for Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, he inaugurated his bullet-proof official headquarters in Hyderabad.
Official sources said the building costs between Rs 35-50 crore but the Congress said it would be around Rs 100 crore.
Located in the Greenlands area of Begumpet, the chief minister’s new residence designed by Shapoorji Palonji and Co. Ltd is spread across nine acres and has a built-up area of one lakh square feet, which is double the size of a football field.
Named Pragathi House, the building has bullet-proof bathrooms, bedrooms for Rao and his son. Around 55 security personnel will guard the building round the clock.
Rao, a firm believer in vasthu, tasked vasthu advisor Suddala Sudhakar Teja to ensure that Pragathi Bhavan emitted “positive vibrations”.
Rao also handpicked ayurvedic plants and trees to be planted at Bhavan, which has residential and official quarters, parking and rooms for security staff, a conference hall that can seat 500 people.
Earlier, meetings of district collectors, police and other department officials were held in star hotels or conference halls. But now, the CMO can be used for the same.
