The Core Urban Region (Integrated Governance) Bill, 2026, displayed on the website of the Greater Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Malkajgiri municipal corporations for feedback from the citizens could be self defeating as it is not reader friendly.The 271 page document with no printing or downloading options is frustrating to read and respond to, complained several people who tried to go through it. Besides, there is no mobile version of the document, so one cannot read it on the go. One needs to spend hours on the desktop to finish it.Former member of the Legislative Council Syed Amin-ul-Hasan Jafri said only a link was given on the three websites, with no Save or Download options for later reading.“You cannot read so many pages at one go. It consumes a lot of data. They should give a download facility. Otherwise, the very purpose of posting it for feedback is defeated,”Mr. Jafri said.Public policy expert Donthi Narasimha Reddy addressed a letter to the Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Urban Development, expressing several concerns that makes the document inaccessible to public.Apart from lack of printing and downloading options, Mr. Narasimha Reddy flagged another concern with the language of the bill.“The draft is available only in English. Hyderabad’s residents include a very large number of Telugu-speaking citizens for whom English is not the language of comfort. A draft of civic law or regulation that will affect ordinary citizens must be made available in Telugu as well, so that people can meaningfully understand and respond to it, and not merely to those literate in English,” Mr.Narasimha Reddy wrote.Absence of download option makes it difficult not only to read the document, but also share it with others, annotate it, or refer back to specific clauses while preparing comments.“A document of this length simply cannot be meaningfully studied by reading it page-by-page on a browser screen,” he said, adding that it is also not clear from the page what the last date for submitting comments is, and that such an exhaustive code for civic affairs of three corporations needed more time than allowed.The deadline for submitting feedback is July 24, allowing only 20 days for reading and responding. Mr.Narasimha Reddy sought at least 60 days time, and ward and zonal level public consultation meetings or hearings so that citizens who are not comfortable submitting feedback online can also participate. Receipt of comments should be acknowledged, and in due course, a summary should be published about how the comments received were considered before the draft is finalised, the letter demanded.GHMC Commissioner R.V.Karnan, when sought his version, assured that download option will be activated for the bill. Published - July 06, 2026 09:10 pm IST