Lab quarters

Lab Quarters, also DRDO Township and Kanchanbagh, is a colony in Old City, Hyderabad, Telangana, to accommodate the employees working in the Defence Laboratories of DRDO like the DRDL, DLRL, DMRL, Research Centre Imarat (RCI), Advance System Laborator (ASL) and other establishments. It is well connected with the city, the MIDHANI depot being just adjacent to it. Lab Quarters is one of the largest colonies in Hyderabad, comparable to those of BHEL and KPHB (Kukat pally Housing Board).

It is a very green area and isolated from the mundane traffic and pollution of the rest of the city. It is close to Santosh Nagar colony and babanagar area. Some popular healthcare centres like the CGHS Dispensary, Owaisi Hospital and the Apollo DRDO hospitals are located nearby. The main commercial places are the shopping complex, community hall, parks,mess (general and for officers). Lab Quarters has excellent educational institutions like the Defence Laboratories school and the Kendriya Vidyalaya Kanchanbagh. While the former is a private venture, the latter is managed by the all-India Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and financed by the DRDO Laboratories around it. It has got a very holy temple inside the Township.

The colony is divided into A,B,C,D,E types and scientist hostel. It also has several grounds, the largest of which is the one at the Kendriya Vidyalaya. It contains one helipad which becomes functional when receiving VIPs like the President, Prime Minister and other important dignitaries.

This township was once the residential address for our now late president and India's premier missile man Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He was serving as the director of Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), which was recently rechristened after his name. It is also a residence to famous scientists and software engineer like of B.Venkata Rama Subbaiah and Shivanand Tripathi.(DRDL/ASL) and Software Engineer( Vijay Mali )