Overview
- GHMC said a five-member panel and a technical team will examine zone-wise objections and prepare division maps after the one-week window ended on December 17.
- Multiple petitions challenging the process are before the Telangana High Court, where Justice B Vijaysen Reddy noted delimitation is largely administrative and adjourned hearings.
- Corporators from BRS, BJP and AIMIM, along with resident welfare groups, alleged opaque methods, inadequate data and politically skewed boundaries.
- Specific complaints flagged wide voter disparities and anomalies, including Turkayamjal treated as a single ward with about 70,000 people and contentious ward name changes.
- The expansion merges 27 urban local bodies, growing GHMC from roughly 650 to 2,050 sq km with an estimated 1.34 crore population and 300 wards, based on a CGG study tied to the upcoming census timetable.