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GHMC to form ward committees.
With a view to ensure greater community participation, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is all set to elect ward committees in all 150 divisions in the city.
​Hyderabad: With a view to ensure greater community participation, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is all set to elect ward committees in all 150 divisions in the city.
Under the provisions of Section 8A of the GHMC Act, 1955, ward committees have to be constituted for each ward of the Corporation.
As many as 1,473 members from the civil society would be nominated as ward committee members.
Each ward committee would have seven to 10 members depending on the area of the respective division. A special council meeting would be held on August 30 to nominate eligible ward committee members.
- As many as 1,473 members from the civil society would be nominated as ward committee members for 150 divisions in the Corporation.
- Of the 1,473 members, 750 would be men and the remaining 723 women.
- Each ward will have 10 members from the civic society.
- The Corporator of the ward will be the chairman of the ward committee.
Following directions from Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K Taraka Rama Rao, Mayor Bonthu Rammohan held an emergency meeting on Wednesday to convince Corporators to nominate ward committee members during the special council meeting.
Sources in the GHMC said that the Mayor has also asked the Corporators from 150 divisions to submit the list of nominees within a week.
According to the GHMC officials, as many as 1,473 members from the civil society would be nominated as ward committee members for 150 divisions in the Corporation.
Of the 1,473 members, 750 would be men and the remaining 723 are women. They said that each ward committee consists of a member of the Corporation representing the ward (Corporator), who will be the chairperson of the ward committee and not more than 10 members from the civic society would be nominated as ward committee members.
Of the 10 members, two would be nominated from registered resident welfare associations (RWAs). In the event of non-availability of RWA members, a member of registered tax payers, rate payers association, two members from slum development federation or a representative of the senior-most self-help group in the ward would be nominated, they said.
Officials further said that in case there are more than 10 eligible applications for nomination, the Corporation would nominate the required number of persons by voice vote.
Meanwhile, the ward committee members who can be nominated include a president/secretary of the registered resident welfare association in the ward; a member of registered tax-payers association, rate-payers association in the ward; president or secretary of slum-level federation (NHC) of a slum (if there is no slum-level federation in a ward, a representative of the senior-most self-help group in the ward); a member of a registered association or institution, body or organisation or NGO or Mahila Mandali or trade union, chamber of commerce, medical council in the ward; any other prominent citizen from the ward.
By: Maddy Deekshith
