Hyderabad: Is the government planning to split the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) into four corporations?
If one were to go by the terse announcement of Roads and Buildings minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, the proposal is under active consideration of the Congress government. The laconic statement came from the minister at Assocham’s Urban Infrastructure Summit – 2024 here on Friday.
In his speech as the chief guest at the summit attended by industrialists, realtors, academicians and officials, the minister declared that the splitting of GHMC would be done “after the elections” (possibly the polls to the GHMC). “Population in Greater Hyderabad was reaching almost 1.5 crore. That’s the reason, the State government was planning to divide the GHMC into four corporations. There would be four Mayors after the coming elections”, the minister stated taking everyone by surprise. Venkat Reddy, however, did not elaborate on the point. In fact, it was in March last, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy had asked officials to work out plans for the civic body considering its rapid development.
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