Demand for separate Secunderabad Municipal Corporation ‘lacks merit and logic’: officials

Key Highlights

• Officials explained that a closer examination of history, administrative evolution, infrastructure planning and governance mechanisms suggests that Secunderabad is deeply integrated with Hyderabad, and its geography won’t be altered even if any new corproation takes shape.
• Officials argue that, historically, Secunderabad ceased to function as an independent civic body more than six decades ago.
• Though it was constituted as a municipality in 1945 and upgraded to a municipal corporation in 1950, it was merged with the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) on August 3, 1960, under the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955.
• This merger created a unified civic administration that has continued uninterrupted.
• With the formation of GHMC in April 2007, Secunderabad became part of the North Zone, and in May 2018, a dedicated Secunderabad Zone was carved out within GHMC when the number of zones was increased from five to six to improve governance.