The Centre for Good Governance has been the facilitator for hectic process of finalising the ward delimitation in view of the expansion of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, for which the government has issued an ordinance. The ordinance has received the Governor’s nod.
A large number of Town Planning officials and election staff from GHMC and surrounding municipalities, together with other high ranking officials, are huddled up in day-long meetings at the Marri Chenna Reddy Human Resources Development Institute of Telangana deliberating and redrawing the boundaries of the divisions in the context of the merger of 27 municipalities/corporations into the GHMC. The entire exercise, continuing for the past five to six days, has been kept strictly confidential.
The GHMC as of now, has 150 divisions, and the number may go up at least by a 100 if the delimitation exercise is completed. Sources have informed that, in order to facilitate the delimitation process, the number of eligible voters have been divided into clusters of 25,000 each in GHMC as well as the surrounding urban local bodies. Boundaries of the districts, and parliamentary and assembly constituencies will be the basis on which the clusters will be clubbed to form the new divisions.
