Greater Hyderabad area will be expanded soon. Oblivious to the ongoing movement for a separate Telangana and a battle for Hyderabad, the state government has decided to merge some more gram panchayats into the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, expanding its jurisdiction from the present 621 square kilometres to approximately 721 sq km.
If the new merger plan is cleared, Shamshabad gram panchayat, where the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is located, would get the Greater Hyderabad tag.
Official sources said nearly 30 villages in six mandals like Shamshabad, Uppal, Keesara, Hayatnagar, Rajendranagar and Qutubullapur would become part of Greater Hyderabad.
The villages and gram panchayats to be included are Shamshabad, Satamarai, Utupally, Tondupally, Jillelaguda, Jalpally, Almasguda, Kothapet, Mirpet, Badanpet, Nadergul, Pahadisharief, Balapur, Sardarnagar, Peeramchervu, Rajendranagar mandal villages, Nizampet, Bachupally, Kompally, Doolapally, Bahadurpally, Pragatinagar, Injapur, Kuntlur, Manganur, Thattu Annaram, Rampally, Nagaram and Dammaiguda.
“The district administration has just begun the process of collecting data pertaining to villages like population and other details. The state government will take a final decision on the proposal,” Ranga Reddy district collector Dana Kishore told STOI.
When Greater Hyderabad was created in April 2007 by merging surrounding municipalities in the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH), the state government had proposed to merge eight gram panchayats—Shamshabad, Satamrai, Jalpalli, Mamidipalli, Mankhal, Almasguda, Sardarnagar and Ravarala—along with 12 surrounding municipalities in Ranga Reddy district.
A notification was also issued by the municipal administration and urban development (MA&UD) department. But the state government was forced to drop the idea of amalgamation of the eight gram panchayats into the Greater Hyderabad as there were elected representatives (sarpanches). As elections were conducted for panchayats in 2006, the government had excluded the panchayats to avoid legal problems. The tenure of the sarpanches of these gram panchayats would come to an end in August 2011.
“As the sarpanches have tenure for another one-andhalf years, we expect there will not be much resistance from the elected representatives. The processes like issuing a notification and calling for suggestions and objections will itself take six months,” a senior official of the Ranga Reddy district said.
But some elected representatives of Shamshabad want the gram panchayat be made a municipality. Local leaders have resolved that Shamshabad should be a municipality and are planning to meet district minister Sabita Indra Reddy soon.
Meanwhile as the state government recently relaxed norms to form a municipality, the RR district administration has decided to propose Boduppal as municipality by merging surrounding areas with it. Major gram panchayaths with a population between 20,000 and 40,000 and with a density of 400 people per square kilometre are eligible to become a municipality.
Two panchayats Medchal and Jawaharnagar would become major panchayats due to the revised norms set by the state government.
(SOURCE : TOI)
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