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By Express News ServiceHYDERABAD: New pedestrian-friendly footpaths on major internal roads in the city where the roads are wide enough are being developed by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The footpaths will be broad enough with two to three metres width for hassle-free walking and would be completed in a month. In the first phase, GHMC proposed 60 km of pedestrian-friendly footpaths on 10 km stretches in each zone covering LB Nagar, Charminar, Khairatabad, Serilingampally, Secunderabad and Kukatpally zones. Importantly, all these works on footpaths are outside the 709 km stretches identified for Comprehensive Road Maintenance Programme (CRMP) by the GHMC. The GHMC has a road length of about 9,100 km of which 800-850 km are four-lane roads for which footpaths on both sides are mandatory..