The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 will guide the governance of all new municipal corporations carved out of the GHMC through a government order on Wednesday, unlike other municipalities/corporations governed by the Telangana Municipal Act, 2019.
The three civic bodies namely GHMC, Cyberabad Municipal Corporation and Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation will be governed by the GHMC Act which has undergone several amendments which were passed during the winter session of the Telangana Legislature in the first week of January.
One of the amendments empowers the state government to create any number of corporations within the Core Urban Region (CURE), currently defined as comprising all areas within the outer ring.
The amendments changed the definition of the term “city” to CURE and the definition of the term “corporation” to all corporations within CURE as notified by the government.
The power of the Government to change the boundaries of the city from time to time after consultation with the Corporation as mentioned in Section 3(3) has been replaced by a clause empowering the State Legislature to modify, add, change or remove any area in the city without any consultation with the Corporations.
The Government also arrogated to itself the power to decide inter-corporation questions and by order to “do whatever may appear necessary to remove the difficulties” if such difficulties arose in carrying out the provisions of the Act.
Published – 11 Feb 2026 21:27 IST