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The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, and the US Ambassador to India, Mr David C. Mulford, after signing the lease agreement for establishing the US Consulate office in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

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Hyderabad, July 3 The US Government has allocated a budget of $ 7.6 million to renovate and make operational the Paigah Palace, a 100-year-old structure in the heart of Hyderabad to house its fourth Consulate in India.

The Consulate will start functioning by the end of next year. It would be a temporary facility for five years.

A permanent Consulate Office will come up on land provided by Andhra Pradesh Government, the US Ambassador to India, Mr David C. Mulford, has said.

The permanent facility will be larger and operational in 2011. Hyderabad has been chosen for its strategic location, diversified economy, multi-industry and well-managed city, he said at a formal function where the Ambassador and the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, signed a lease agreement for the new Consulate.

In addition to the Embassy in New Delhi, the US has Consulate offices in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. The decision to locate the fourth in Hyderabad was announced by President George W. Bush, when he visited the city in 2006. The Hyderabad Consulate will ease the pressure on other centres, he said.

Dr Reddy said the Government had allotted 12 acres of land for the permanent US Consulate in Gachibowli.The Government was giving the Paigah Palace, which houses the HUDA (Hyderabad Urban Development Authority) offices now and all the support required to ensure early start of the consular services, he said.

Stating that Andhra Pradesh and the US had a long association with professionals going to that country for decades, Dr Reddy said that with the IT boom, the numbers have drastically gone up in the past few years. Interestingly, some Americans have also started coming here.

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