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Secunderabad Cantonment’s long-pending request for merger with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has erstwhile again travel into focus, with the Ministry of Defence informing the Rajya Sabha that the contented of excising civilian areas from prime Cantonments is presently nether judicial scrutiny, including earlier the High Court of Telangana.
Responding to a question raised by MP Mahender Bhatt successful the Rajya Sabha connected Monday (February 9, 2026), Minister of State for Defence, Sanjay Seth, said that the Centre has decided successful rule to excise civilian areas from prime Cantonments and merge them with adjoining State municipalities. He added that since the result of the excision workout whitethorn person a bearing connected the governance operation of Cantonment boards, elections to these boards were not conducted.
“The substance is presently sub judice earlier the High Courts of Delhi, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh,” helium said.
In Telangana, the contented is linked to the aboriginal of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB). The merger of the Cantonment’s civilian areas with the GHMC was a long-standing request of legislators from the constituency arsenic good arsenic residents, galore of whom reason that improvement successful the country remained stalled owed to administrative limitations nether the cantonment system.
The request has besides led to governmental mobilisation successful caller weeks. Secunderabad Cantonment MLA, Sri Ganesh Narayanan, precocious staged a hunger strike, reiterating the telephone for the merger and urged the Centre to expedite the process.
Addressing concerns implicit the suspension of Central Finance Commission grants owed to the hold successful holding the elections, the Minister clarified to the Rajya Sabha that the grants were released to 29 cantonment boards, successful the existent fiscal year, nether the Central Finance Commission grants.
He added that lone Cantonment boards successful Uttarakhand cited non-conduct of elections arsenic 1 of the reasons for non-receipt of grants. The matter, helium said, was taken up with the Uttarakhand Government for the merchandise of funds.
