All the three corporations to be governed by the GHMC Act, 1955

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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955, volition beryllium the guiding airy for the governance of each the caller municipal corporations carved retired of the GHMC by mode of a authorities bid connected Wednesday, dissimilar different municipalities/corporations which are governed by the Telangana Municipalities Act, 2019.

The 3 civic bodies, namely GHMC, Cyberabad Municipal Corporation and Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation, volition beryllium governed by the GHMC Act, which had undergone respective amendments that received the stamp of support during the wintertime league of the Telangana Legislative Assembly successful January archetypal week.

One of the amendments empowers the State authorities to make immoderate fig of corporations wrong the Core Urban Region (CURE), presently defined arsenic constituting each the areas wrong the Outer Ring Road.

The amendments person changed the explanation of the word ‘City’ to mean CURE, and the explanation of the word ‘Corporation’ to mean each the corporations wrong the CURE arsenic notified by the government.

The powerfulness of the authorities to change the limits of the metropolis from clip to clip successful consultation with the corporation, arsenic enunciated successful the Section 3(3), has been substituted with a clause that empowers the State Legislature to modify, add, alter, oregon region immoderate country wrong the city, without immoderate consultation with the corporations.

The authorities has besides arrogated to itself the powers to determine issues among the corporations, and by order, ‘to bash thing which appears to them indispensable for the intent of removing the difficulty’ if immoderate specified trouble arises successful giving effect to the provisions of the Act.

Published - February 11, 2026 09:27 p.m. IST

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