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12 municipal corporations merged. The Andhra Pradesh government on Monday announced the merger of 12
municipalities within the limits of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (MCH) and
the constitution of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) with
immediate effect.
The municipalities that have been merged into GHMC include LB
Nagar, Gaddiannaram, Uppal Kalan, Malkajigiri, Kapra, Alwal, Quthbullapur,
Kukatpally, Serilingampalli, Rajendranagar, Ramachandrapuram and Patancheru.
With the merger, GHMC will now have a coverage of about 625.52 square
kilometres with a population of about 67 lakh as compared with the earlier area
of MCH, which has 172.6 sq km with a population of 45 lakh.
Disclosing this at a press conference here today, state information minister
Mohd Ali Shabbir said the GHMC would be headed by a commissioner who will be a
senior IAS officer.
“As the reorganisation of the administrative set up for the Greater Hyderabad
Municipal Corporation is likely to take some time and in order to ensure that
there is no disruption and dislocation of civic functions, the state government
has decided to redesignate the municipal commissioners of the 12 municipalities
as deputy commissioners of GHMC,” the minister said.
As an interim measure, he said, the erstwhile areas falling within all the 12
municipalities would be treated as administrative zones and the deputy
commissioners would be delegated with necessary powers to effectively look
after the day-to-day civic functions in their respective zones.
Asserting that the state government would not increase the burden of taxes on
the citizens of GHMC, the information minister said the new municipal
corporation would continue with the old area-wise taxation system.
City-level systems like major road network, water supply, sewerage and
drainage, urban transport and environment system, the minister said, cannot be
done locally and need to be tackled in an integrated manner by an appropriate
civic management structure.
Hence, the state government is implementing a Rs 28,000-crore master plan that
include the Rs 5,000-crore 162-km outer ring road (ORR), a Rs 2,000-crore
sewerage infrastructure plan and a Rs 500-crore elevated express highway, which
are under various stages of development.
SOURCES:
Business Standard
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