This story is from July 20, 2019

Hyderabad, Secunderabad should have been separate districts, says CM

Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday said he felt Hyderabad and Secunderabad should have been two separate districts given their burgeoning populations
Hyderabad, Secunderabad should have been separate districts, says CM
K Chandrasekhar Rao
HYDERABAD: Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday said he felt Hyderabad and Secunderabad should have been two separate districts given their burgeoning populations. Addressing the assembly on the new Municipal bill, he said, “Telangana should ideally have 34 districts. Hyderabad and Secunderabad would do well as separate districts. But several people appealed to me that the two not be separated as they were together the pride of Telangana,” he said.
Indicating that he may act on his gut feeling in the future, the chief minister said, “With about one crore population, I thought another district is needed.
However, the GHMC and the HMDA are taking care of the needs of the area now. We may, however, take a different decision later.”
Though the new bill does not apply to area under the GHMC, the chief minister in his speech made several references to the city and surrounding areas. “Look at Nizampet, we cannot do any thing there. Floods happen, something else happens. We are helpless, so we have formed new municipal corporations, some around Hyderabad,” he pointed out.
Observing that city with huge population should at least have 100 vegetable markets, he lamented that there were only seven or eight here. “The public toilet facility is very poor in the city. Women who come for some or the other need to city, find it difficult to find reasonably good restrooms. All this has to change,” he said.
Explaining the need to strengthen municipal bodies, the chief minister said that the news of a few people dying due to polluted water in Musheerabad area was painful. “We will deliver. Things will change,” he said and added that there was a need to have more satellite towns around the city.
Cracking whip on real estate dealers
CM KCR cited the experience of one of his relatives in Kukatpally to explain how real estate developers were indulging in malpractice. “Many developers in the city don’t leave open spaces and show it as gift deed later. But with this new bill, the developers will have to get registration done for open spaces before they are given approval to go ahead with their venture.
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