Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation earlier known as the MCH is the urban planning agency that oversees Hyderabad, the capital and largest city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its precursor, the Hyderabad Corporation, was established in 1950 via the Hyderabad Corporation Act. In 1955, the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act merged the municipal corporations overseeing Hyderabad and neighbouring Secunderabad.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is formed by merging 12 municipalites and 8 gram panchayats with the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad. The municipalities are L. B. Nagar, Gaddi annaram, Uppal Kalan, Malkajgiri, Kapra, Alwal, Qutubullapur, Kukatpally, Serilingampalle, Rajendranagar, Ramachandrapuram and Patancheru. All these municipalities are in Rangareddy district. The panchayats are Shamshabad, Satamarai, Jallapalli, Mamdipalli, Mankhal, Almasguda, Sardanagar and Ravirala.
The Government Order 261 was initially issued in July 2005. Now, the Supreme Court has rejected the plea to interfere into the matter, the Andhra Pradesh government has passed the GO 261 that is related to the creation of Greater Hyderabad on 16 April, 2007.
Earlier, Twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad had a population of 45 lakh living in an area of 172 sq. km. The new urban agglomeration sprawls across 650 square kilometers with a population of 67 lakhs. The erstwhile city of the Nizams has now transformed into an area greater than Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore.
The Andhra Pradesh Government has appointed C. V. S. K. Sarma as the first Chief Commissioner of GHMC.
The Government has decided to divide the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation into five zones (south, east, north, west and central zones), 17 circles and 150 wards. Each ward would cover about 37,000 people. Each zone will have a chief commissioner and an additional commissioner with 17 deputy municipal commissioners and three assistant commissioners under them. There will also be a separate engineering wing with five chief engineers for each zone, a town planning wing, two additional directors, one joint director and one deputy director for each circle.
