The following are some of the one-day-traveling locations from Hyderabad.

Historical and leisure traveling locations:

Warangal: 136 km

• Thousand Pillars Temple, built by King Rudra Dev, a Kakatiya king in 1163 AD.
• Warangal Fort, constructed during the Kaktiya period in the 13th century.
• Kakatiya rock garden, Kakatiya Musical Garden, Govindarajula Gutta.

When traveling by train, you can get down at the Kazipet junction in Warangal, and can travel to any of these places through autos or taxis. Waranagal also has lot of decent hotels for the tourists to stay.

Bhongiri: 47 km

• The Bongir Fort was built on a single rock hill in 12th centuary. This comes much early before reaching Yadagirigutta.
• Kulpaka, one of the few Jain temples in Andhra Pradesh, is 25-30km from Yadagirigutta and 20kms from Raigiri, which is the junction for these two places.

Nalgonda: 102km

• Nandikonda is famous for the Buddhist site with many Buddhist monasteries and pillars.
• Phanigiri, a Buddhist complex with a large Stupa and two apsidal halls is located here.

Nagarjunakonda: 156 km

• Nagarjunakonda, an island near Nagarjunasagar, is a major pilgrimage center for Buddhists. Nagarjunakonda is named after a famous Buddhist monk, Nagarjuna.
• There are some fascinating sights such as Ethipothala waterfalls, a massive dam and a museum with rare antiquities in its possession.
• As an archeological site, Nagarjunakonda is famous for architecture of Buddhist civilization.

Nagarjuna konda takes 3 hours to reach to Hyderabad. Watching Nagarjuna Sagar when the flood gates are open is a real treat to eyes, people ususally rush this place, when these gates are open. If you want to have a one night stay at Nagarjuna Sagar, you can have accomodation at the guest house of APTDC, Vijay Vihar.

Another interesting feature is that, APTDC also offers a tourism package to Srisailam from Nagarjuna Sagar by boat, for a 1 night stay at Srisailam.

Pillalamarri: 100 km

• Pillalamarri is a popular Banyan Tree located in a remote village of Mahbubnagar. The place is located 8 km away from the main town.
• Pillalamarri is five hundred years old and extends over an area of three acres. It is suitable for one day trip.

Devotional traveling locations:

Warangal: 136 km

• Ramappa Temple was constructed in typical South Indian style of architecture during the Kakatiyas rule in 12th century.
• Thousand Pillar Temple was built by King Rudra Dev in 1163 AD.
• Bhadrakali Temple, an eighth century old temple was built by the Kakatiyas.
• Padmakshi temple, an ancient temple built during first quarter of the 12th century.

Sangareddy: 64 km

• Ramalingeswara temple is located in Nandi Kandi, which lies fifteen kilometers (15 km) away from the town of Sangareddy.
• The temple is one of the very few temples in India that are shaped like a star and was built by the Chalukya kings of Kalyana.
• Various shrines are dedicated to other deities like Mahishasura Mardini, Saraswathi and Gaja Lakshmi.

Mahaboob Nagar: 100 km

• Sri Krishna Temple, Sri Ragavendra Temple, Sri Yellama Thalli Temple, Sri Venkateshwara Swami temple, Sri Satya Sai Baba Temple, Sri Laxmi Narasimha Swami Temple and many others.
• Jama Masjid, Muneer Masjid, Medina Masjid, Mecca Masjid, Chand Sultana Masjid, Baba Miya Masjid, Ali Masjid.

Alampur (Kurnool): 217 km

• The Nava Bhramma temples of Alampur are important shrines of the town. All nine temples of the Nava Bhramma, dedicated to Lord Shiva were built by the Chalukyas, about 1200 years ago.
• All the preserved temples of Alampur date back to the 6th and 7th centuries. The nine temples at this place are Swarga Brahma Temple, Padma Brahma Temple, Arka Brahma Temple, Vishva Brahma Temple, Garuda Brahma Temple, Bala Brahma Temple, Taraka Brahma Temple, Kumara Brahma Temple and Vira Brahma Temple.

Keesara Gutta Temple: 30 km

• Around this temple, there are numerous ruined shrines of the Gupta architecture of fifth century. There are scores of a meter-high Lingas—the phallic symbol—around the main deity.
• On ‘Sivarathri’ day, every year, the place becomes busy as many people throng to the temple.

YadagiriGutta: 65 km

• It is located 65 kilometres from the city and attracts huge gathering of people on Sundays and public holidays.
• Surendra Puri, located at a distance of 60 km from Hyderabad, has replicas of all most all of Indian famous temples idols.

Karimnagar: 161 km

• Vemulawada, located 150 km from Hyderabad is known for Sri Raja Rajeshwara Swamy Temple.
• This place owes its importance to the sacred and famous temple of Sri Rajarajeswara, an incarnation of Lord Siva.
• Dharmapuri is famous for the shrine dedicated to Narasimha Swamy, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
• Siva and Mahishasuramardhani along with Dakshinamurthy, Vinayaka and Sapitha Mathrukas are carved on a single slab of stone.
• Kondagattu temple: Surrounded by caves and Rayuni fort, Bojja Potana on its north, the temple is located at 35 Kms away from Karimnagar town,.

Basara Gnana Saraswati Temple : 200 km

• The Gnana Saraswathi Temple at Basara is situated about 40 kms from Nizambad district headquarters and 70 Kms from the town Nirmal in Adilabad district.
• Now a days, there is heavy rush of pilgrims to Basara to perform “Akshara abhyasam” for children.
• The places to visit near Basara apart from Sri Gnana Sarawathi Devi Temple include Sri Mahankali Temple, Sri Dattatreya Temple, Sri Vyasa Maharshi Guha, Sri Vedavathi Shila (Sri Vedavathi stone), Godavari river and Lord Shiva temple on the bank of the Godavari.

Medak Church: 90 km

• The magnificent Medak church stands on a sprawling 1000 acres of land in Ghusnabad. The church was sanctified on 25th December 1924.
• The church has a spired bell tower that rises to a height of 175. The tower is made of Italian tiles. The length and width of the Cathedral is 200 feet and 100 feet respectively.

Property tax can be paid both online and offline.

• Online payment
  • For online payment a 10 digit unique Property Tax Identification Number (PTIN), which is assigned to every tax payer is required (if you have an old 14 digit PIN number you can get your new number from the GHMC web page http://www.ghmc.gov.in/tax/ptlocalitysearchrep.asp
  • By entering that new 10 digit PTIN number you can make online payments by visiting http://www.ghmc.gov.in using debit/credit card.
• Offline payment
  • Direct cash payments can be made at different places like eSeva centres, State Bank of Hyderabad branches, AP Online Service centres, citizen service centres, through bill collectors, or you can also give a cheque/DD in favour of “Commissioner, GHMC”.

Rebates and penalties

• To encourage prompt payment of property tax GHMC came up with attractive programs. It will conduct a lucky draw for the tax payers who pay their taxes in time and will present 20 lakh prize amount to the lucky winner.
• To encourage the construction of green buildings in the city, GHMC recently came up with a new concept of offering tax incentives to the green buildings. It will offer tax incentives for the buildings with rooftop solar installations for heating and power back up and water harvesting facilities.
• However, for the late payments it will charge 2% extra on the bill for every month.

Assistance & grievance reporting

• For further help or for registering any complaints related to property tax you can call the GHMC helpline numbers 155304/1253, 040-23226982/23221978 or you can register your grievances online by clicking the grievance registration link on the GHMC homepage.
• In case your grievances or not addressed in time you can also contact
  • Initial Contact- Tax Inspector/Deputy Municipal Commissioner/Advertisement Officer
  • Second Contact – Zonal Additional Commissioner
  • Third Contact – Additional Commissioner (F)/Commissioner, if complaint persists

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How to Calculate GHMC Property Tax

Property tax is one of the main sources of revenue for GHMC. For the taxation of the property, the property owners need to register with GHMC and the assessments are made based on the physical dimensions and other parameters of the property.

Tax exemptions
Though the property tax is levied on all the non-agricultural lands, buildings, and structures with land, the tax rate vary based on the type of usage of the property. However, few properties can get tax exemptions/concessions which are listed below.

• 100% exemption for properties owned by serving or Ex-service men
• Religious places of worship, charitable institutions are completely exempted from the tax
• Any residential building occupied by the owner whose annual rental value is not more than Rs.600 may be exempted from the tax
• 100% exemption for the recognized educational institutions (up to X std.)
• 50% vacancy remission would be granted for the vacant premises on field report submitted by the tax inspector

Rate of property tax

• For residential buildings the slab rates of taxation are being adopted
• Whereas for the commercial properties, property tax is levied 30% on Annual Rental value (ARV) of the property

Property tax calculation procedure
The property tax is calculated differently for residential and commercial properties based on the Annual Rental Value (ARV) of the property.

Tax calculation for residential properties: For residential buildings, since the slab rates of taxation are being used, an elaborate procedure for determining the Annual Rental Value (ARV) and for assessing the property tax will be followed. For your convenience it is explained in a simple way as follows.

Step 1: The Plinth Area (PA) of your property/building should be measured. The PA is nothing but the total built up area, which includes the covered balcony, all covered area including the garage area. For more information about Plinth area and others, click here.

Step 2: As the next step, the market rent per square feet per month should be determined. If self-occupied, the prevailing market rent per square feet per month for similar properties in the vicinity should be considered.

If rented out, the rent obtained per sq. ft. per month (based on Rental Agreement) should be considered. If the rent obtained is low, the prevailing market rent for similar properties can also be taken. This will give Monthly Rental Value (MRV) per Sq. ft.

Step 3: Using those two values the property tax payable may be calculated as:

Tax calculation for Commercial properties: Unlike residential property tax calculation, the calculation for commercial properties is simple and less complicated as the tax rate is fixed.

Just like the above process the PA and MRV should be known in order to calculate the tax. However, in this case the MRV of for your property shall be obtained from the notification issued by GHMC for the monthly rent fixed per sq. ft. of plinth area for different circles in various taxation zones. This information is available in the GHMC web page (http://www.ghmc.gov.in/tax/proposed_div_zones.asp)

The MRV for your property may vary based on different factors like location of building, type of construction, nature of usage, age of building, etc.

After getting the values of PA and MRV, the tax can be calculated using the formula:

• You can also calculate your property tax online by visiting GHMC web page http://www.ghmc.gov.in/tax/calculationofpropertytax.asp/ (or)
  http://www.ghmc.gov.in/tax/cal_tax.asp
• You can also check your property tax dues using the link
  http://www.ghmc.gov.in/tax/taxdueshome_new.asp

Maximum and minimum taxes

• Commercial property taxation for ATMs and cellular towers/hoardings is observed to be charged at the maximum with monthly rent of Rs. 70 and Rs. 50 per sq. ft. respectively.
• Whereas educational institutions/hostels and hospitals are charged with minimum taxes with a monthly of Rs. 8 and Rs. 9.50 per sq. ft. respectively.

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Cooking biryani is not as easy as it sounds in many recipe sites (at least if you want to make it authentic). As you are cooking the meat and the rice together, at a time, it requires lots of attention and patience to makes sure that biryani may not end up with over-cooked rice or under-cooked meat. Also using excess of water in cooking also makes biryani loose its taste as well as the proteins in it.

In order to server all these properties, both the meat and the rice should be cooked evenly on small and spread flame, for a long time. For this, the biryani is prepared in a special utensil called Deg, and more preferably on a wooden stove. You can call it one of the secrets of cooking Hyderabadi biryani.

The deg is a traditional Indian cookware, a shallow metal pot, generally made of clay, brass, aluminum, copper and even stainless steel. For copper vessels, a small amount of nickeling is done, without which it is poisonous. Its bottom is round, thick and deep. Towards the opening, it linearly tapers into a narrower neck, almost into a conical shape. From the neck, it again flares out into a broad opening, a little smaller in diameter than the largest diameter of the pot. It also has a wide lip/ rim around its top edge to make it easy to carry. Overall it looks like a pot with uncurved walls.

The bottom is thick to make sure that the meat is not sticking to the base of the vessel, being cooked with little water for a long time. Its design also ensures even distribution of heat from all sides of the bottom and heat retention for longer time without burning the food. The tapered walls heat up faster and distribute it evenly from sides.

After layering meat and rice in the utensil, it is then covered with a lid. The lid is then sealed with a water and flour paste. The flour seal makes sure that the little water, we are cooking with, doesn’t escape the vessel. This method is called Dum-Pukht, borrowed from Awadh cuisine. It is also important to leave around 1/4th of the vessel free after layering the rice and meat, for the steam to collect and aid in cooking.

Now being cooked on a slow flame, the meat is set to cook well in its own juices, along with the layered rice. When these juices convert into steam, it gets collected in the free space at the opening and then try to escape the vessel. But as the vessel is sealed, the steam condenses and rolls down the sharp slope back in to the food. This cycle keeps continuing till the cooking is done.

Thus, the genuine aroma, flavor and texture of the meat and spices are not only stopped from escaping, it is also spread to the rice in the biryani.

Professional cooks make Biryani on firewood, as it spreads the flame and gives consistent heat on all sides. It is not possible to cook biryani well on a regular gas stove in which flame comes as a torch rather than a spread out flame. When cooking at home or an event where firewood is not possible, look for a stove with the flame that spreads wide.

The authentic Hyderabadi Biryani is the Kacchi gosh ki Biryani. Unlike the Pakki gosh ki Biryani where the meat will be well cooked before mixing with rice, for Kacchi Biryani the raw meat is first marinated and then layered together with the rice in the utensil and cooked together in steam. In order to cope up with the cooking of the rice, the meat should be tender or tenderized.

Though there are many chemical tenderizers in the market, the meat for Hyderabadi biryani is tenderized naturally using mash made of the grated skin of raw, unripe papaya. You can call it the secret ingredient, without which you will never be able to cook the authentic Hyderabadi Kacchi gosh ki Biryani‘s.

The papaya used for this will be chosen unripe, firm and deep green in color. The green skin is then peeled of up to about 1/8th to ¼” deep off the raw papaya and made into pieces. For every 2 tablespoons of papaya peel, ¼ teaspoon of salt is added.

This mixture is then made into a into a thick paste by grinding it. There is another dry version of this tenderizer for which you will have to Sun-dry the mixture instead of grinding it. You will be then left with a dry mash of papaya peel which is ready-to-use.

Though you have made enough paste out of a papaya, you will require only 4 tablespoons of papaya paste or dry mash for 1 kilo meat. The excess of papaya paste can be refrigerated for later use. The dry papaya mash is stored in a container and can be used for up to a year.

Marinating the meat is most crucial part of preparing the Kacchi gosh ki Biryani. It is here where the raw papaya mash is used along with yogurt, ginger garlic paste, lemon juice, cardamom and other aromatic spices for around 3 to 4 hours. The ingredients added here not only tenderize the meat but also infuses a special flavor deep into the layers of meat.

Papaya contains an enzyme called Papain. Though you have marinated the meat with the tenderizing paste, the enzymes get activated only when you start cooking on heat.

When the Papain in contact with meat gets activated, the enzyme gelatins or breaks down the connective tissues in it. The gelatinized connective tissues mix with the tenderizing paste. As the meat is cooked along with the rice, the tenderizing paste also gets mixed with it and adds the special flavor to the rice too. Thus, the marinated meat is layered as it is in the biryani deg, along with the tenderizing paste. If you are just putting the meat without the paste, you are discarding lots of flavor.

The enzyme papain is more concentrated in the fruit when it is unripe. This is one of the reasons why we choose a raw papaya. Apart from adding flavor and tenderizing the meat, papain also helps to break down heavy proteins we consume along with the biryani, making it easily digested and absorbed into the body. Papain is also used in digestive enzyme dietary supplements and for treating gastrointestinal problems such as stomach ulcers and indigestion.

For an outsider this craze for biryani may look mysterious but once he/she tastes the authentic biryani, they will surely admire it. But most of the outsiders and even some people living in Hyderabad, particularly at outskirts are always confused whether to eat mutton or chicken biryani.

Whether to eat mutton or chicken biryani depends on type of the restaurant. Many hotels, restaurants and Irani cafés in the twin cities serve biryani. But in a good restaurant and during regular hours the quality of meat is good.

Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani

Chicken is much cheaper than mutton. You can get 1kg of chicken at around Rs.120 at retail market, whereas mutton costs around Rs.240 per kg. So you get more meat with chicken biryani than with mutton biryani. Many restaurants either do not use good mutton or give only limited meat quantity due to its cost. This affects the eating experience.

Only in a few places and during peak hours, you can have mutton biryani. Other times it is safer to go for chicken biryani. Also, when you are in doubt, it is always better to go for chicken biryani.

Hyderabadi Mutton Biryani

However, when you cook biryani at home, always go for mutton biryani. It is the original one. Meat of the Telangana goat is considered as one of the best in the world. The semi arid vegetation of the Deccan plateau with its rolling hills, boulders and volcanic ash is a great place to rear goats. In deltas where land is fertile and no free land exists like in coastal Andhra, goats are not very common.

Chicken is a very late entrant in Hyderabad. It is not uncommon in old time Hyderabadies to not eat chicken at all or dislike it. It was not part of the regular meats in Hyderabad till barely a couple of decades.

Apart from mutton and chicken biryani, there are many other varieties of non-vegetarian and vegetarian biryanies today. The creativity of the people innovated a number of biryanies such as fish, prawn, egg and vegetable etc. However, mutton and chicken biryani are popular.

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1. First go to http://maps.google.com OR go to www.google.com and click on the “maps” tab.
2. Just put in the name of area in Hyderabad you want to look for in search field and click search. For example type in “Ameerpet Hyderabad”
3. A detailed Hyderabad map will be displaced in right panel window. In left panel, you will see varied information about prominent places and their photos.
4. Sometimes, other users have created custom maps (called user created maps) that may be helpful too – since they mark and highlight some landmarks or areas.

Using Google maps Toolbars / Controls to get better Hyderabad Map:
There are various options which help you to customize the map to your needs.

1. Zoom in / Zoom out: A vertical bar on left side of map window allows you to zoom in or zoom out. You can also manually operate the slider to zoom in or zoom out. The “mouse scroll” control will also zoom in and zoom out of the map.
2. Navigation controls: Navigation controls inside a circle on top left corner helps you to navigate through Hyderabad city maps.
   • Pointers: You can pan to right, left, up, and down by clicking on direction “pointers” on navigation controls.
   • Hand symbol: When you point on the map anywhere except where there are other controls, you will see the “hand” symbol. Left click on any place and you can move left, right, top or bottom this allows you to adjust the areas that are included in the map.
3. Scale: There is a scale provided on the bottom left side. The distances can be figured out by the scale which is provided in both kilometers and miles. This is very useful for estimating the distances between areas on the Hyderabad map.
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5. Print: On the top of the map, there is a “print” button that allows you to take the print out of the Hyderabad map. Clicking on the “print” opens the map in a new window with the map maximized on the new screen. This allows you to print the Hyderabad map properly while eliminating some the other side bars that come up in the regular browser window.
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• Unlike traditional printed maps, even the most recent changes are updated in online maps. However, traditional maps could be having outdated information. Traditional maps are static maps and it takes a lot of time to update and insert information. Plus, many new roads may be missing. The city has also expanded rapidly, old maps do not cover the outskirts in sufficient detail. The online maps are continuously updated.
• Allows you to view maps at required level of detail through features like zoom in/out and different views.
• Online maps are more interactive while printed maps are static and only give detail up to a specific level. Various interactive features make it easy to understand information and easily follow road directions.
• Online maps are easy to distribute. One can easily email the map of the location which is convenient and saves a lot of time.
• Online maps allow you to switch views to see the maps in different formats. An online Hyderabad map includes photographs, terrain, satellite view which is not available in traditional map.
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Google maps is one of the best way to get a Hyderabad map of the location of your interest to the level of detail you would like. This is a benefit that is not offered by any paper map. Plus, you could always print out the map (if you would like!)

Other additional features:

1. Provides step-by-step directions between two locations. Also provides the distance (Kms/Miles) and approximate time to reach the destination by car or public transport. But in public transport it is guiding only through MMTS services. Other public transports like busses are not mentioned.
2. Provides some useful information through Wikipedia on some important places like Charminar, Hitech city, Golconda etc. by clicking ‘Wikipedia’ in ‘More’ option.
3. Provides real estate information like sale/rent of flats in apartments in the Hyderabad city through major real estate websites.
4. You can view the local photos of some of the important places like Charminar, statue of Buddha, Gandhi hospital etc. by clicking ‘Photos’ in ‘More’ option.
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We all know that the Hyderabadi Biryani is part of history as it was first prepared in the kitchens of the Nizam. Whereas Andhra Biryani is part of geography, where the local ingredients as well as the taste preferences influence it.

Unlike most people of Telangana region, people of Coastal Andhra and Rayalseema prefer hot mirchi powder to garam masala. So they transformed garam masala spiced Hyderabadi Biryani into a chilli powder based Andhra Biryani. Though the taste is different from the authentic Hyderabadi Biryani, it has a unique taste that definitely tickles your taste buds.

When it comes to ingredients, green chilly paste and a lot of spices like cloves, peppercorns, black cumin, cardamom, cinnamon etc. are used in Hyderabadi Biryani. In Andhra Biryani, usage of spices is little bit less but red chilly powder is extensively used. All the other ingredients like Basmati rice and ghee are used as usual. However, typical Andhra Biryani is mostly available with chicken. Mutton Biryani is available only in some small number of restaurants.

Mirchon ka saalan (chilli curry), which generally accompanies the Hyderabadi biryani, is many times not provided with Andhra Biryani.

Anupama hotel at Ameerpet, Blue-Fox at Himayathnagar are famous for Andhra Biryani in our city. Biryani at Hyderabad House, S.R nagar is somewhat different from other branches in the city as most of the people in that area like Andhra version.

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