text: Phase III In February 2023, K. T. Rama Rao said that BRS government would consider extending the Metro Rail up to Ramoji Film City and other parts of Hyderabad under Phase III, after coming to power for the third consecutive time in the Assembly elections in December 2023. In June 2023, Chief Minister of Telangana K. Chandrashekar Rao announced that Hyderabad Metro will be extended further from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad to Kandukur in Maheshwaram Assembly constituency. He also said that there was a need to extend Hyderabad Metro rail from Patancheru Industrial Area  in Sangareddy district to Hayathnagar in Rangareddy district. In June 2023, K. T. Rama Rao said that BRS government has an ambitious plan to expand the metro network in Hyderabad to 250 km, which will include metro network from Jubilee Bus Station to ECIL.
  On 31 July 2023, referring to the expansion of the Hyderabad metro rail, K. T. Rama Rao listed out the proposals cleared by the Cabinet. He mentioned that Government of Telangana has proposed a metro corridor of approximately 415 km in length for city of Hyderabad and its peripheral areas, including 156 km of metro network along the Outer Ring Road.
  Metro Rail project Phase-IlI expansion - 6 Metro Extension Corridors, Metro rail all along ORR for its entire length. On 18 August 2023,  Hyderabad Airport Metro Rail (HAML) invited tenders for the selection of consultants for preparing Preliminary Project Reports (PPRs) and Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for Phase-III metro rail expansion for 12 corridors of 278 km. The selected consultants have to first submit Preliminary Project Reports within two months and carry out traffic surveys, ridership estimates.