Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, the purview of which has been expanded from 650 square kilometres to 2,053 square kilometres recently, may not remain so for very long.
A media conference by the GHMC Commissioner R.V. Karnan on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, left enough cues for the scribes to deduce that the GHMC’s glory as the largest corporation in the country could be short-lived. Unconfirmed reports about division of the civic body into three corporations have found strength in Mr. Karnan’s prevarication in response to a question, that the corporation would remain as it is till February, 2026.
In February, the term of the present council would come to an end, after which elections will have to be conducted for the next council. News going around is that the elections would take place only after the division. Appointment of two Additional Commissioners for a cluster of three zones each also added strength to the conjecture. The Additional Commissioners G. Srijana and Vinay Krishna Reddy have been given charge of Kukatpally-Quthbullapur-Serilingampally and Malkajgiri-LB Nagar-Uppal clusters respectively.
Clarifying on the hierarchy, Mr. Karnan said the zonal commissioners of the corresponding zones would report to the Additional Commissioner concerned, and the Additional Commissioners in turn would report to the GHMC Commissioner. It is speculated that the Additional Commissioners would be given independent charge of the corporations that would be constituted in future.
