Safilguda
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Safilguda is a locality in India's twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. It comes under the Malkajgiri Municipality and has a lake which is popularly known as Safilguda Lake or Nadimi Cheruvu or mini tankbund.
Safilguda is a purely residential area with its own suburban railway station. The station is located adjacent to the military cantonment area. You can also find a military golf course next to Safilguda, but entry is restricted to military personnel only. The whole cantonment area provides a great relief to the joggers and walkers. In Safilguda you have many colonies: Anandbagh, Balramnagar, Chanakyapuri, Krupacomplex, Santoshimanagar, Uttamnagar, and Vinayaknagar. The early settlers of Safilguda who came here around the 60s-70s had a very tough time since this area was isolated with no means of transport to reach the city and no electricity. People had to cycle around 6 km to reach the city unless they were able to get the occasional bus. There were only two or three houses and barren land and rock everywhere. Land here then cost around Rs5/-per sq ft. Now Safilguda is a very thickly populated area—a suburban town in itself. All the amenities of a suburban town—medical, educational, shopping, offices, public transportation—are available. There are medical shops and hospitals that function round the clock. Further, the town is alive and busy even past midnight. Here the cost of land ranges from 10000-12000 per sq yard or even more.
