Hyderabad: The Telangana government has issued an ordinance to amend the Telangana Municipalities Act of 2019, aiming to expand urban areas up to the Outer Ring Road (ORR) and beyond.
This significant change involves the merger of 51 gram panchayats into the nearby municipalities of Rangareddy, Sangareddy, and Malkajgiri-Medchal districts.
Cabinet sub-committee recommendations
The ordinance was issued in the name of Governor Jishnu Dev Varma, following recommendations from a cabinet sub-committee led by Industries and IT minister D Sridhar Babu, with participation from Transport and BC minister Ponnam Prabhakar, Panchayat Raj minister D Anusuya Seethakka, and Health minister Damodar Rajanarsimha.
In the discussions that led to this decision, the cabinet sub-committee met with public representatives and other stakeholders to assess the feasibility of merging the villages into nearby municipalities.
As a result of these consultations, it was determined that six additional gram panchayats within the ORR would be merged, supplementing the initial list of 45 villages.
The selected villages have been identified as having similar urban growth trajectories, characterized by rapid development and urbanization.
Previous studies conducted by the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) and a committee of district officers, which included the district Collectors of Rangareddy, Sangareddy, and Medchal-Malkajgiri, have both recommended the integration of these villages into the existing or nearby municipalities.
The following villages will be merged into municipalities in the respective districts of Telangana:
Rangareddy District
- Pedda Amberpet Municipality:
- Bacharam
- Gowrelly
- Qutbullapur
- Tharamatipet
- Shamshabad Municipality:
- Bahadurguda
- Peddagolikonda
- Rasheedguda
- Ghansimiyanguda
- Narsingi Municipality:
- Mirjaguda
- Thukkuguda Municipality:
- Harshaguda
Medchal-Malakajgiri District
- Medchal Municipality:
- Pudur
- Rallapur
- Dhammaiguda Municipality:
- Keesara
- Yadgarpally
- Ankireddypally
- Cheeryal
- Narsampally
- Thimmaipally
- Nagaram Municipality:
- Bogaram
- Godumkunta
- Kareemguda
- Rampally
- Pocharam Municipality:
- Venkatapur
- Pratapsingaram
- Korremul
- Kachivanisingaram
- Chowdariguda
- Ghatkesar Municipality:
- Ankushapur
- Aushapur
- Madharan
- Edulabad
- Ghanapur
- Marpallyguda
- Gundlapochampally Municipality:
- Muneerabad
- Gowdavelly
- Thumkunta Municipality:
- Bomrasipet
- Shamirpet
- Babaguda
Sangareddy District
- Tellapur Municipality:
- Kardanoor
- Muthangi
- Pocharam
- Paati
- Ghanapur
- Ameenpur Municipality:
- Ilapur
- Ilapur Thanda
- Patelguda
- Dayara
- Kistareddypet
- Sultanpur
