1.The state brought out a new municipal Act called “Telangana Municipal Act 2019” which is applicable to all 139 urban local bodies (except Hyderabad). This is perhaps the most progressive Act in India and one of the most forward-looking Urban Acts in the World. Some of the salient features include
a.Self-assessment and online filing of Property tax;
b.Self-declaration based 100% online time-bound building permission system thereby doing away with any interaction with any staff. Instant approvals for almost 85% of the cases ie up to 240 sq yards;
c.Municipal budget to be a planned exercise with salary,sanitation, power bills, green budget & any outstanding loans as charged expenses;
d.Earmarking 10% of the budget as “green budget”
e.Local empowerment by forming 4 ward level committees each consisting of 15 members in each ward
2.Duly recognizing the increasing urban nature and growth, the number of ULBs were increased from 78 to 139 and this includes 13 municipal Corporations; This will give the required impetus to these areas and will enable these urban areas to act as engine of growth;
3.Municipal Elections were conducted in January 2020 for 131 ULBs and this will ensure that there’s stability and unhindered growth path for next five years;
4.Under TUFIDC, Administrative sanctions were accorded for Rs. 2000 crs worth of works in about 110 ULBs and works are going on; this is one of the biggest infusion so far as capital infrastructure works are concerned in these ULBs;
5.Metro Rail connectivity – during the year, Hyderabad Metro, the world’s largest PPP metro with a length of 69 km got completed and with this, the Hyderabad has now got the Country’s second largest metro rail network, next only to Delhi. Further, the HMRL registered a peak ridership of 4 lakhs per day by February 2020;
6.Drinking Water supply to the Hyderabad Urban Agglomeration (HUA) received a boost:
a.HMWSSB’s 20 TMC (344 MGD) capacity Keshavapuram reservoir, which will ensures water assurance till horizon year of 2040 by bring water from Kaleshwaram LIS through Kondapochamma Sagar;
b.The HMWSSB also completed 725 crs Phase-I Project for ORR
area covering 24 ULBs and 18 Gram Panchayats providing
water supply to 2 lakh households
7.The HMDA ensured Green Cover to the city horizons by incurring an expenditure of Rs.96.64 Crores. Its efforts resulted in the development of:
a.31 blocks in 5614 Ha / 13,872.5 Acrs within ORR;
b.188 blocks in 129 locations covering an area of 64053.9 Ha / 1,58,281.60 Acrs within HMDA jurisdiction beyond ORR;
c.25 forest blocks at 16 locations covering an area of 5928.38 Ha / 14,155.4 Acrs, outside of ORR;
d.In addition to this, the GHMC is developing 6 forest blocks at 3 locations with an area of 596.00 Ha or 1472.12 Acres; and e. The HMR is developing two forest blocks with a total area of 407 Ha /1005.29 Acrs
8.Health care – in addition to existing 123 Basthi Davakhanas,another 45 davakhanas were inaugurated recently. A total of 350 Basthi Davakhanas will be opened in Hyderabad;
9.A total of 3000 Public toilets are planned for Hyderabad @500 Public Toilets in each of the 6 zones; Works are going on;
10.We want to make Hyderabad Hoarding Free. A new regulation is being brought out and idea is to make Hyderabad saferand cleaner;
