Contractors on Tuesday began old Secretariat building complex which once housed the core of the Telangana state's administration. The demolition began in the early hours of Tuesday. Given the TRS government's indifference to its heritage value, no fond farewells were said to the old building, which was the nerve centre of all governments in the old undivided Andhra Pradesh.

The path to the razing was cleared by the Telangana High Court when it dismissed a bunch of petitions challenging the TRS government's decision to pull down the old building and build a new one its place, at a cost upwards of Rs 450 crore.

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