Telangana government to set up Pharma City near Hyderabad.

Telangana Government is mulling to set up a 'Pharma City' near the state capital in about 8,000 acres. The City will include industries as well as residential colony, and a power plant with 500 MW capacity will be set up adjacent to the pharma city to provide captive, dedicated and uninterrupted power supply to the industry, a press release from the chief minister's office said.

'The required land, infrastructure facilities, communication facility, power supply, water supply etc. will be provided by the government...,' it said.

The pharma city is expected to accommodate about five lakh employees besides their families in the residential colony touching about twenty lakh over a period,' the release quoted Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao as saying.

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