The Hindu 12.03.2013
More Ranga Reddy, Medak villages into GHMC fold
Villages witnessing rapid urbanisation and contiguous to GHMC areas to join the premier civic body
More than a dozen villages of Ranga Reddy and Medak
districts are likely to get entwined to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal
Corporation (GHMC) before it begins to reorganise its 18 circles into 30
circles.
The government is slated to take a decision
on different gram panchayats joining the premier civic body in the next
few days once it manages to strike a balance between the political
interests and the administrative convenience.
GHMC
has evinced interest in ‘taking over’ 21 gram panchayats, down from the
34-odd a year ago. Criteria were villages should be contiguous with the
municipal corporation’s geography and “witnessing rapid urbanisation”,
as Additional Commissioner (Planning) K. Dhananjaya Reddy, put it.
Basic amenities
The
objective is to regulate the development activity and provide basic
amenities as the gram panchayats have neither the expertise nor
infrastructure to tackle them.
Actually, eight villages were supposed to be merged along with the 12 municipalities when GHMC was being formed.
These
were: Shamshabad, Satamrai, Jalpalli, Mamidipalli, Mankhla, Almasguda,
Sardarnagar and Raviryal. But, an official notification was withdrawn as
they had elected bodies.
Later, the list was
expanded to 20 by including Peeranchervu, Hydershakotla, Bandlaguda,
Manikonda, Poppalguda, Narsingi, Kokapet, Nizampet, Bachupally,
Kompally, Boduppal and Balapur.
The Ranga Reddy
Collectorate wanted 52 villages into GHMC like Meerpet, Medchal,
Badangpet, Peerzadiguda, Gundla Pochampally, Ootupally, Tondupally,
Jillelaguda, Nadergul, Pahadisharief, Sardarnagar, Peeramchervu,
Doolapally, Bahadurpally, etc.
Over the last few months, some of these villages were thought fit to be grouped to form ‘nagar panchayats’.
Inclusion list
As things stand now, 15 villages of R.R. and seven villages of Medak are on the table for inclusion.
These
are: Shamshabad, Satamrai, Kothwalguda, Ootupally, Tondupally,
Manikonda, Bachupally, Pragatinagar, Jawaharnagar, Poppalguda,Neknampur,
Poppalguda, Kokapet, Gandipet, Nizampet, Kothwalguda.
Ameenpur,
Bandlaguda, Tellapur, Velimela, Edunagalapalli and Osmananagar of Medak
are also among those shortlisted to be part of the city.
Interestingly,
the villages identified for inclusion into GHMC or two to three
villages to be grouped to form ‘nagar panchayats’ were done on the basis
of the 2001 population census.
But, if the 2011
census (yet to be officially notified) is considered, many of these
villages can straightaway be notified into grade one municipalities
considering the surge in population levels over the past decade, point
out senior officials.