Secunderabad Cantonment residents seek board elections and to fast-track merger with GHMC

Resident Welfare Associations from the Secunderabad Cantonment country person submitted a practice to Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence Rajesh Mittal, seeking contiguous behaviour of elections to the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) and to expedite the merger of civilian areas with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The representations were handed implicit during his sojourn to Hyderabad connected Tuesday.

The Confederation of Cantonment Residents Welfare Association, Secunderabad, said SCB elections person not been held since 2020, with the past elected committee completing its word aft the January 2015 polls. Citing antiauthoritarian norms that mandate section assemblage elections each 5 years, the relation said civilians successful cantonment areas proceed to beryllium denied this right. It added that the lack of an elected committee has stalled development, near civic issues unresolved and weakened accountability and grievance redressal mechanisms.

In a abstracted representation, the Cantonment Vikas Manch urged the Ministry to expedite the excision of civilian areas of Secunderabad Cantonment and their merger with the GHMC done a intelligibly defined timeline.

“Residents of the cantonment person for decades lived nether restrictive and outdated regulations that person hindered planned municipality development, contempt the country being located successful the bosom of Hyderabad. While GHMC has expanded and modernised by absorbing surrounding gram panchayats and corporations, the cantonment has remained an land of stagnation, chopped disconnected from municipal infrastructure backing and antiauthoritarian administrative benefits,” the practice said.