Expanded GHMC to have 300 wards

The Telangana authorities has notified the re-fixation of wards and the spot of elected members of the expanded Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The expanded GHMC covering the full metropolis of Telangana Core Urban Region volition person 300 wards, according to the Government Order (GO) issued connected Monday (December 8).

The G.O. Ms. No. 266 by the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) section follows a elaborate reorganisation connection submitted earlier.

The Centre for Good Governance carried retired the ‘Ward Reorganization Framework for GHMC successful the Context of the Proposed Merger of 27 Urban Local Bodies’ and it formed the ground of the existent decision, according to the GO.

The government, aft cautious introspection of the matter, person decided to state the fig of elected ward members to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation astatine 300, nether sub-section (1) of Section 8 work with sub-section (1) of Section 5 of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 (Act No. I of 1956) and arsenic amended subsequently from clip to time,” informed the GO.