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The Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has urged the Telangana authorities not to o.k. a projected survey circuit of 145 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) corporators, arguing that the sojourn would service nary nationalist intent and magnitude to a discarded of taxpayers’ wealth arsenic the corporators are nearing the extremity of their term.
In a practice dated December 30 (Tuesday), addressed to the Principal Secretary of the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department, the forum said that the Standing Committee of the GHMC had cleared the connection successful its gathering connected December 29. The survey circuit is intended to exposure corporators to municipality governance practices successful different cities.
The forum, however, pointed retired that the word of the existent acceptable of corporators ends successful February 2026. By the clip the projected circuit is completed, it said, determination would beryllium “hardly immoderate clip left” for the elected representatives to use the cognition gained from specified a visit. As a result, the workout would not payment the radical of Telangana successful wide oregon Hyderabad successful particular.
Describing the connection arsenic an avoidable expense, the forum said the circuit would magnitude to squandering nationalist funds without immoderate tangible return. “The thought down a survey circuit is meaningful learning and implementation, neither of which is imaginable erstwhile the word is astir to end,” the practice said.
The letter, signed by Forum for Good Governance president M. Padmanabha Reddy, requested the Principal Secretary to intervene and halt the projected tour. A transcript of the practice has besides been marked to the GHMC Commissioner, seeking akin action.
The authorities and the GHMC are yet to respond publically to the forum’s objections.
