(Excl Ventures News.) (Hyderabad) With the final decision to have Hyderabad as Telangana Capital, has the Government lost interetst in expanding the city? The Govt may now revoke the last month''s GOs merging 36 Villages with GHMC .
A high-level meeting convened by Panchayat Raj minister K. Jana Reddy
and municipal administration minister M. Maheedhar Reddy on Tuesday,
discussed the High Court order on city expansion.
Sources said it
was agreed upon in principle that the best option is to club four to
five villages together to form nagar panchayats and municipalities. This
could be done after withdrawing the orders issued for the merger of 36
villages.
However, the file would be sent to the CM’s office for a
final decision. When contacted, Mr Maheedhar Reddy confirmed to this
correspondent that three options were discussed.
“Whatever
decision is taken, will be applicable to all the 36 gram panchayats and
not confined only to the 17 villages that went to court,” he said.
The three options include: withdrawing the merger orders and
upgrading the villages as nagar panchayats and municipalities by
combining four to six gram panchayats.
The second option is to withdraw the orders and retain the villages as gram panchayats.
The
third option is to go ahead with the city expansion orders by following
due procedure of serving notices on gram panchayats and asking for the
opinion of local residents.
The high-level meeting of ministers
along with senior officials from the two departments discussed these
three options, keeping in mind the High Court order. The widespread
protests by the residents and leaders of gram panchayats against the
merger was also a point of discussion during the meeting.
It may
be mentioned that the HC granted interim suspension on implementation of
GOs issued by the state government to merge 17 villages.
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