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Raising concerns implicit chronic underdevelopment and fiscal neglect, Secunderabad Cantonment MLA, Sri Ganesh Narayanan, urged the Telangana authorities to prosecute the merger of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and authorisation a peculiar yearly improvement bundle of astatine slightest ₹50 crore for the constituency.
Speaking successful the Telangana Legislative Assembly, the MLA said Secunderabad Cantonment remained the lone constituency successful the State nether the administrative power of the Central Government, but received nary peculiar funds oregon fiscal enactment for civic development. He said the Cantonment Board did not person adjacent basal Army Service Charges from the Centre, leaving it without resources to undertake infrastructure works oregon conscionable wage obligations.
“There is nary wealth for improvement successful the Cantonment area. Even salaries of the Board’s unit are affected. Roads, sewerage, playgrounds and energy infrastructure are successful a precise mediocre state,” helium told the House.
Mr. Narayanan said the Cantonment country laic astatine the centre of a rapidly expanding municipality region, peculiarly aft the State authorities accrued the GHMC limits to see 20 municipalities and 7 corporations, yet it had remained excluded from the city’s maturation for decades.
The MLA said each improvement works successful the country were presently being carried retired utilizing MLA Local Area Development (LAD) funds alone, which helium said were grossly insufficient. “Even if the MLA money is ₹5 crore a year, oregon adjacent with the caller ₹10 crore sanctioned by the Chief Minister, it volition not beryllium capable to bring improvement to this constituency for the adjacent 50 years,” helium said.
Arguing that structural alteration was essential, Mr. Narayanan said the merger of the Cantonment Board with GHMC was indispensable to resoluteness long-pending civic issues and integrate the country into Hyderabad’s improvement framework. He added that the merger would besides simplify onshore transactions and spot registration processes for residents.
Highlighting the fiscal load connected residents, helium pointed retired that radical successful the Cantonment country presently paid 12% successful stamp work for spot registration arsenic compared to the 7.5% paid by GHMC residents, yet received nary commensurate civic services.
The MLA besides flagged the prolonged hold successful Cantonment Board elections, stating that elections scheduled for 2020 had inactive not been conducted.
Appealing to the Chief Minister done the Speaker, Mr. Narayanan urged the State authorities to instrumentality up the contented with the Central authorities connected precedence and guarantee that the Cantonment country was merged with GHMC, reiterating that sustained backing was indispensable to bring the constituency astatine par with the remainder of Hyderabad.
