Study tour of GHMC corporators a waste of public money, says Forum for Good Governance

The Forum for Good Governance has urged the Telangana government to stop the proposed study tour of 145 GHMC corporators, stating that their tenure ends by February 2026 and the tour would not benefit the people, calling it a waste of public money

Hyderabad: The Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has demanded that the State government stop the proposed study tour of 145 GHMC corporators to other cities to learn about urban governance.

In a letter addressed to the Principal Secretary of Municipal Administration and Urban Development, FGG president M Padmanabha Reddy said the Standing Committee of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation had approved the proposal for the study tour at its meeting held on December 29.

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Pointing out that the tenure of the corporators would end by February 2026, he said there would be hardly any time left for them to put the knowledge acquired during the tour to use by the time they returned.

“The proposed study tour is not going to benefit the people of Telangana in general and the people of Hyderabad in particular in any way. It is nothing but squandering of taxpayer’s money and has to be stopped,” Padmanabha Reddy said.

He noted that in the case of government employees, a bureaucrat with less than one year of service remaining was generally not permitted to go abroad on a study tour. The rationale behind the rule was that, after returning from such a tour, the officer should have sufficient service left to apply the newly acquired knowledge, he said.