Telangana Finalizes Hyderabad Municipal Split
The Telangana government has finalized the trifurcation of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), issuing an order to create three separate municipal entities. The new corporations will be GHMC, Malkajgiri, and Cyberabad. The reorganization is intended to provide more focused governance and targeted infrastructure development, particularly benefiting the city's technology and logistics clusters.
- The trifurcation follows a major expansion of the GHMC's jurisdiction in December 2025, when 27 surrounding urban local bodies were merged into it. This expansion increased the GHMC's area from 650 sq km to 2,053 sq km, making it the largest municipal corporation in India by area at the time. - To manage the transition, the state government has appointed Jayesh Ranjan, Special Chief Secretary of the Metropolitan Area & Urban Development Department, as the Special Officer to oversee all three new corporations until elected bodies are in place. New commissioners have also been appointed: G. Srijana for Cyberabad, T. Vinay Krishna Reddy for Malkajgiri, and R.V. Karnan continues as the commissioner for the redefined GHMC. - The new Cyberabad corporation is designed to provide focused governance for the city's primary economic engine, covering the western IT corridor and key growth areas. Its jurisdiction includes the Serilingampally, Kukatpally, and Qutbullapur zones, which house major tech hubs like HITEC City and Gachibowli. - This western corridor, now under the Cyberabad Municipal Corporation, is home to major IT parks such as Raheja Mindspace, Cyber Towers, and Divyasree NSL Orion, and hosts the campuses of multinational corporations like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Deloitte. - The division aims to create more manageable administrative units. The restructured GHMC will have 150 wards, Cyberabad will have 76, and Malkajgiri will have 74 wards. - This administrative restructuring aligns the municipal boundaries with the existing three police commissionerates of Hyderabad, Cyberabad, and Malkajgiri, a move intended to improve coordination on civic and security matters. - The headquarters for the new corporations have been identified. The current GHMC office will serve the core city, the National Academy of Construction (NAC) building in HITEC City will be the headquarters for Cyberabad, and the former Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) office at Tarnaka will house the Malkajgiri corporation. - The term of the previous elected GHMC council ended on February 10, 2026, paving the way for this reorganization to take effect. Elections for the three new corporations are expected to be held within the next six months.
