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Unhygienic conditions prevail at Nampally bus stop which has become a shelter for vagabonds. | Photo Credit: SWATHI VADLAMUDI Nauseous stench of ammonia hits the nostrils as soon as one steps outside the elevator of the metro rail station at Nampally, a busy junction hosting the Hyderabad Deccan railway station and witnessing thousands of passenger…
Employees from the Revenue wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) staged a protest in front of the corporation’s headquarters on Wednesday, demanding promotions, new recruitments and rationalisation of duties. The agitation was more focussed on the removal of duties of collection of trade licence fee and advertisement fee from the job charts of…
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is going to begin a weekly drive against footpath encroachments, especially by the commercial establishments. A circular has been issued to this effect by Commissioner R.V. Karnan on Thursday, which said the drive should be conducted every Saturday. Issued to Zonal and Deputy Commissioners and marked to the Chief City…
The Wednesday’s council meeting at the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation witnessed some paradoxical moments, with corporators as well as Mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi affirming that the corporation should not go ahead with demolition of unauthorised constructions. The debate was kicked off by BRS corporators who demanded action against absentee member Baba Fasiuddin reportedly for abetting suicide…
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation with its six zones and 30 circles could be consigned to the annals of history in less than a year. The exercise for determining the future existence of the Telangana Core Urban Region (TCUR) has gathered momentum, under the directions from Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, and an exhaustive plan may…
The Cantonment Vikas Manch, a citizens’ group based out of the Secunderabad Cantonment area, has written a follow-up letter to Radha Mohan Singh, chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, seeking urgent deliberation on the proposed excision of civil areas from Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) and their merger with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation…
Non-high-rise commercial buildings too are being brought under the ambit of Fire regulations. | Photo Credit: File photo Fire Services Department, in consultation with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and other stakeholders, is seriously mulling over bringing the non-high-rise commercial buildings too under the ambit of Fire regulations. Deliberations are also on about bringing hospitals…
Non-high-rise commercial buildings too are being brought under the ambit of Fire regulations. | Photo Credit: File photo Fire Services Department, in consultation with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and other stakeholders, is seriously mulling over bringing the non-high-rise commercial buildings too under the ambit of Fire regulations. Deliberations are also on about bringing hospitals…
A special training programme was organised in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation on the Comprehensive Challan Management System (CCMS) on Thursday, where the officers from the Sanitation, Solid Waste Management and Town Planning wings were offered training on using CCMS mobile app to penalise offenders. Littering in major junctions, lack of twin bins at the…
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Commissioner K. Ilambarithi has instructed officials to conduct a comprehensive survey of Murki Nala, a stormwater drain in Yakutpura. On Wednesday morning, the Commissioner, along with local MLA Jaffer Hussain and corporators, inspected several stormwater drains in Yakutpura. During the visit, the Commissioner toured areas such as Rangeli Khidki, Hussain Koti,…
