Co opted members to be elected today
The third special meeting of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will be held on Tuesday at 11 am in the Council Hall of the head office to elect five co-opted members having special knowledge or experience in municipal administration.
Hyderabad: The third special meeting of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will be held on Tuesday at 11 am in the Council Hall of the head office to elect five co-opted members having special knowledge or experience in municipal administration.
Of them, two members will be elected from the Minority communities and one of them should be a member of the Corporation.
The second special meeting was postponed on April 7 date due to lack of quorum.
GHMC Mayor Bonthu Rammohan postponed the meeting after waiting for half-an-hour for members to turn up at around 11 30 am. Only 27 members attended the meeting.
A senior GHMC official explained that the minimum quorum required to hold the election is 108. Five members would be co-opted into the council. Two Minority members would be elected by the corporators and ex-officio members by a voice vote. Of the two ex-officio members, one is a man and another is a woman.
The official said that the GHMC had received as many as 104 applications from the aspirants and another special meeting would be held in this regard. The co-opted members would have status equal to that of elected corporators.
According to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti sources, the ruling party had resolved its differences with All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) over electing a co-option member.
They said that the TRS had agreed to elect a person from the AIMIM party. The TRS decided to elect the co-option member from Christian community under the Minority quota.
