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• The Telangana government has introduced the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2026, to enable the reorganisation of urban local bodies within the proposed Core Urban Region (CURE).
• The Bill seeks to provide a legal framework for establishing one or more municipal corporations within the Core Urban Region to improve integrated planning and service delivery.
• The proposed amendments align the GHMC Act with the Telangana Municipalities Act, 2019, and the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, 2018, while replacing an ordinance that came into force in December 2025.
• The government says the reforms aim to address administrative fragmentation, improve infrastructure planning and strengthen metropolitan governance across the Hyderabad region.
The Telangana government has introduced the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2026, proposing significant changes to the governance structure of the Hyderabad metropolitan region. The Bill aims to create a legal framework for reorganising urban local bodies within a newly defined Core Urban Region (CURE) to enable more integrated urban planning and efficient civic administration.
One of the key provisions of the Bill is the introduction of the concept of the Core Urban Region (CURE), which will include areas already governed under the GHMC Act along with additional notified areas. The legislation empowers the state government to establish one or more municipal corporations within this region, allowing administrative restructuring to improve governance, service delivery and infrastructure management.
The amendments redefine the terms "city" and "corporation" under the GHMC Act, replacing the existing framework with provisions linked to the Core Urban Region. The Bill also authorises the government to determine the jurisdiction, name and operational terms of newly constituted municipal corporations through official notifications published in the Telangana Gazette.
According to the Statement of Objects and Reasons accompanying the Bill, the government considers the Core Urban Region—extending up to the Outer Ring Road—as the principal engine of metropolitan growth. The region contributes significantly to Telangana's Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) and has witnessed increasing demand for civic infrastructure such as water supply, sewerage, roads, drainage, solid waste management and other public services. The government argues that these functions require metropolitan-level planning rather than fragmented administration by multiple urban local bodies.
The Bill further notes that the existing arrangement, under which 20 municipalities, seven municipal corporations and the GHMC function under separate legal frameworks, has resulted in administrative fragmentation and uneven service delivery. To address these challenges, the government has proposed merging and subsequently reorganising 28 urban local bodies within the Core Urban Region under a unified governance framework.
The proposed legislation also aligns the GHMC Act with provisions already available under the Telangana Municipalities Act, 2019, and the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, 2018, thereby removing legal inconsistencies between the state's urban governance laws. The Bill replaces the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025, which came into effect on December 1, 2025, and seeks to provide a permanent statutory basis for the proposed reforms.
Source: E-Gazette
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