On June 16, Telangana Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development K.T. Rama Rao launched the ward administration system for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), ostensibly to improve local governance and ensure better coordination among various departments in civic matters.
The system entails the establishment of GHMC offices at the ward level, so that people can approach ward offices instead of zonal offices for the reddressal of grievances. Each ward office, headed by an officer of the rank of assistant municipal commissioner, will have employees from various wings of the GHMC.
Mr. Ramo Rao justified the system in view of the population explosion in the city. Each ward has a population that is equal to that of a municipality outside the GHMC, but lacks in administrative systems that municipalities are endowed with, he said.
