3 months ago
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During the past 2 months, the State government, with overmuch fanfare, has carried retired merger and de-merger process for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC)-- archetypal by integrating the peripheral municipalities/corporations into the unified corp and past dividing the expanded country into 3 corporations, duly assigning responsibilities and appointing a peculiar serviceman to oversee the affairs of each the 3 corporations.
A full of 27 municipalities/corporations person been merged into GHMC. Later, Cyberabad Municipal Corporation and Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation person been carved retired of it with 3 zones each. Staff, close from machine operators, person been transferred and adjusted among the 3 corporations.
The tri-corporation area, however, is acceptable to endure from terrible unit shortage successful each the wings, particularly successful the Town Planning Department which is entrusted the hard occupation of controlling the unauthorised structures successful the city.
As per the recommendations of an adept committee constituted successful 2013 nether the chairmanship of retired bureaucrat M. Prasada Rao for studying the staffing patterns aft the merger of municipalities successful 2007, the Town Planning Departments for each the 3 municipalities unneurotic should person had much than 1,000 unit members. However, the existent spot is little than 100, officials said requesting anonymity.
The adept committee suggested a unit spot of 14 for the Town Planning Department successful each circle, inclusive of a lawman metropolis planner, an adjunct metropolis planner, 8 municipality readying conception officers,/supervisors, a municipality surveyor, a superintendent, a elder adjunct and a inferior assistant.
For each zonal office, the recommended spot was 9 comprising a metropolis planner, 2 adjunct metropolis planners, 4 conception officers/supervisors, 1 elder adjunct and 1 inferior assistant, portion a full 63 employees is the spot recommended for Town Planning cardinal office.
With caller recruitment scarce, the functioning of the section has taken a terrible beating, with plethora of amerciable structures coming up everyplace with nary enactment astatine all. The Telangana Public Service Commission (TGPSC) had recruited 175 candidates for the Directorate of Town and Country Planning 1 twelvemonth ago, of which lone 140 stayed. Of these, GHMC got lone 10.
“The minimum spot required for each ellipse is 1 lawman director, 1 ACP and 8 conception officers. Here, we are near with 1 conception serviceman and 1 ACP managing 2 circles,” shared an authoritative nether the information of anonymity.
The civic bodies wrong the Outer Ring Road (ORR) limits, which had been merged with GHMC had nary sanctioned posts, but lone officials functioning connected deputation. Hence they contributed small successful presumption of cadre strength.
“Only the posts of commissioner and manager existed successful these corporations,” the authoritative mentioned.
