Latest GHMC News & Updates

Hyderabad, Feb 20 (IANS) About 50 students from a coaching institute were rescued as a fire broke out in a commercial complex in Ameerpet area in Hyderabad on Friday. There were no casualties, police said.Fire-fighting personnel rescued about 50 students trapped in an IT coaching institute on the second floor.The incident occurred at Maitrivanam in the heart of the city.Students in the coaching institute at Nilgiri Block of the G+5 commercial building were trapped by the fire, triggering panic i…

Hyderabad, Feb 18 (IANS) The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has launched MyCUREApp, an upgraded and integrated digital platform aimed at streamlining civic services and accelerating grievance redressal across the city.The app enables residents to lodge complaints related to sanitation, streetlights, roads, drainage, town planning, and other civic issues, while allowing them to monitor the status of their grievances in real time.Officials termed it a significant step towards digit…

Hyderabad, Feb 11 (IANS) Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy on Wednesday termed the division of the Hyderabad, Gajwel and Nalgonda municipal corporations by the Telangana government as illegal, alleging that the exercise was undertaken after the Centre issued a notification for the Census.He told the media that after the Census notification was issued, a directive was circulated nationwide stating that revenue villages and wards should not be divided. Despite this, the state gover…

Hyderabad, Feb 6 (IANS) Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said on Friday that Hyderabad is competing with leading global cities in terms of investments, talent, and quality of life. He also stated that the state government, led by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, allocated ₹20,000 crore for the development of Hyderabad city within a span of just two years.Speaking at the CREDAI Property Exhibition at HITEX, he said several works under this allocation have already been comple…

Hyderabad, Jan 26 (IANS) The “Telangana Rising 2047” vision aims to radically transform the image of Telangana and position the State as a key driver of India’s progress by 2047, Governor Jishnu Dev Varma said on Monday.Addressing the 77th Republic Day celebrations after hoisting the national flag at the Secunderabad Parade Grounds, the Governor said the Telangana Rising Vision 2047 document, launched on the completion of two years of the present government, lays out a comprehensive roadma…

Hyderabad, Jan 13 (IANS) There are 52.43 lakh voters in 118 municipalities and five municipal corporations in Telangana, reveals the final voter list published by the State Election Commission on Tuesday. The municipalities and corporations have 2,996 wards. The total number of voters is 52,43,023, comprising 25,62,369 men, 26,80,014 women and 640 others.Stepping up the arrangements for the upcoming municipal elections, the Election Commission has mapped and confirmed municipality-wise voters.Th…

Hyderabad, Jan 13 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will go it alone in the upcoming municipal elections in Telangana, the party’s state president N. Ramchander Rao announced on Tuesday.He, however, said that the BJP would welcome support from any other party.The BJP leader’s clarification came days after the announcement by Jana Sena Party that it will contest the municipal elections in Telangana.Jana Sena, led by Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and actor Pawan Kalyan, is an ally…

Hyderabad, Dec 30 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Tuesday directed officials to prepare an action plan to develop Greater Hyderabad as a pollution-free city. At a review with senior officials of Municipal Administration and Urban Development, and also newly appointed Zonal Commissioners, he emphasised that effective measures should be taken to maintain cleanliness and garbage management. It was also decided to impose a complete ban on plastic use to reduce pollution in the ci…

Hyderabad, Dec 29 (IANS) The government of Telangana on Monday reorganised the existing three police commissionerates for Hyderabad and its suburbs and created a fourth commissionerate for the upcoming Future City. Existing commissionerates of Hyderabad and Cyberabad will continue with the same names, while Rachakonda has been renamed as Malkajgiri.Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, which was part of Rachakonda, has been excluded from the commissionerate jurisdictionThe decision has been taken as par…

Hyderabad, Dec 29 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao on Monday alleged that Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy stalled the Palamuru-Rangareddy lift irrigation project to appease his ‘old boss’ and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.Rama Rao said that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy fears that completion of the project would bring credit to former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) and invite the displeasure of his former political m…