Hyderabad: Legal experts said the Centre will have to issue a notification to exclude Secunderabad Cantonment area and merge it with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) after consulting with the state government and Secunderabad Cantonment Board on the matter.
Advocate K Balraj said: “As per the provisions for alteration of limits of Cantonments, the central government, after consulting with the state government and the board concerned, should issue a notification in the official gazette.
It has to declare the intention to include or exclude any local area in the Cantonment.”
He said within eight weeks from the date of notification, any Cantonment should submit in writing to the central government through the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief any objections against inclusion or exclusion of it.
After expiry of eight weeks from the date of notification, the Central government, after considering objections, will notify in an official gazette any inclusion or exclusion of the local area in the Cantonment, a legal expert said.
“If it is inclusion, all the rules and regulations will change as per the Cantonment Act. If it is exclusion of the area, all the civil area rules will be enforced,” said the legal expert.
The official notification will have boundaries and define the new limits of Cantonment, the experts pointed out.
While a majority of the residents want residential areas removed from Secunderabad Cantonment, some others are sceptical over the facilities provided by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.
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While a majority of the residents want residential areas removed from Secunderabad Cantonment, few others are sceptical over the facilities provided by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC)