hyderabad the controversy over route alignment has already placed a legal hurdle in the path of the citys metro rail project now civil society members are planning to move court challenging the legality behind the appointment of the managing director of hyderabad metro rail limited hmrl after dragging hmrl to court for unilaterally changing the alignment of the metro rail corridor iii between nagole and shilparamam the greenlands ameerpet madhuranagar yousufguda and sri krishna nagar joint action committee gamysjac is now questioning the legitimacy of nvs reddys appointment as hmrl managing director the high court has passed a stay order on work along the said stretch in a clutch of petitions filed by gamysjac and 20 individual traders but the civil society group is contemplating going a step further and filing a fresh petition seeking nvs reddys removal going by records nvs reddys appointment as the managing director of hmrl is erroneous metro rail is a mass transit system wherein public safety is an imperative when the very head of such a project has questionable credentials his appointment must be challenged said an shankar spokesperson for gamysjac the court has already made a note of serious lapses in the enactment of the law governing the project now the jac is planning to dig deeper to unearth procedural irregularities in the appointment of the managing director in its interim order high court has said that there is a serious lacuna in the very launching of the project under the ap tramways act although it is almost a fullfledged railway referring to a shady deal which saw the project falling into the hands of the disgraced property developer maytas the court averred the metro rail contract was initially granted in favour of an agency keeping the entire project away from public scrutiny since its decision turned out to be wrong it ought to have been careful and followed the procedure prescribed under the relevant provisions of law while the detailed project report dpr prepared by the delhi metro rail corporation ltd for the hyderabad metro rail project prescribes a technocrat for the mds post nvs reddy hails from an accounts background the dpr states that for the successful implementation of hyderabad metro project it is essential that the managing director of hmrl should be carefully chosen the managing director should be a technocrat of proven record and impeccable integrity nvs reddy is from the indian railway accounts service iras and has had no prior technical experience nvs reddy came on deputation from the railway ministry to join ap transco subsidiary apnpdcl as its executive director finance in july 2002 later he was posted as additional commissioner in mch and project director of mmts in december 2003 nvs reddy was made hmrl managing director in april 2007 and following his request was permanently absorbed into state government service in january 2009 he will continue in the position till his superannuation in 2016 nvs reddy was behind the planning and execution of the flyovers