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Hyderabad: A special drive to administer the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine among eligible individuals in Hyderabad will be launched on Monday by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in collaboration with State health authorities. The vaccine will be administered in all Basti Dawakhanas, existing vaccination centres and other state-run urban primary health centres. A total […]

Hyderabad: Sports lovers in Khajaguda and the vicinity now have an exclusive facility being built for them. The Khajaguda Sports Complex, spread over two acres, has four badminton courts, a gymnasium and a carrom room. This facility being built by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) with an estimated cost of Rs 3 crore has dormitories […]

Hyderabad: Replacing the conventional street lights in the city with LED bulbs has yielded positive results for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The step towards green energy and eco-friendly power utilities has drastically reduced the emission of carbon dioxide besides saving energy and money spent on electricity bills, GHMC officials said. Under GHMC limits, a […]

Hyderabad: Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao on Saturday attributed Telangana’s performance in Swachh Survekshan 2021 to the programmes taken up by the State government. “These awards have come as a recognition to the all-round development taken place in towns & cities of Telangana under the programmes like Palle Pragathi & Pattana […]

Hyderabad: The city has added another feather to its cap by climbing up the ladder in the Swachh Survekshan national survey that rates cities across India on cleanliness, and has won an award too. The city, apart from winning the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs’s award for the Best Self Sustainable Mega City […]

Hyderabad: Over 7,000 buildings in the Greater Hyderabad region, which were hitherto registered as residential properties, have been brought under the correct property tax net and declared as commercial establishments by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation within two weeks. The massive exercise had all these properties being assessed manually. Stretches located on Road Number 45, […]

Hyderabad: Safely finding a way through vehicles zooming past, and crossing busy road stretches continues to be a challenge for the pedestrians at several places in the city. However, road crossing is all set to become safe and hassle free for the pedestrians at different locations with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) readying Foot […]

Hyderabad: When its boundaries are expanding, when its people and buildings are growing, can the garbage in a happening city be far behind? From the whereabouts of 2,500 metric tons of garbage a day in 2015, Hyderabad today generates 6,500 metric tons of waste every day. And just as the mountains of trash forked out […]

Hyderabad: Intensifying the fight against vector-borne diseases, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has pressed into service six drones. These machines are presently being used to spray chemicals in 39 lakes and control mosquito larvae and similar measures were being planned to be taken up in 20 more water bodies. Earlier, the civic body was […]

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has won an award in Swachh Survekshan 2021 and Garbage Free City Rating 2021. The categories will be disclosed on November 20 at an award ceremony at New Delhi when the award is to be presented to the corporation. Besides GHMC, nine other municipalities/ municipal corporations and Secunderabad […]

Hyderabad: It is becoming a lot more like winter with each day in Telangana,even as the season is still slowly setting in. Mornings, especially, have become colder, with many areas including Hyderabad already witnessing temperatures plunging below 15 degree Celsius. Across the State, the lowest minimum temperature in the last 24 hours, till 8.30 am […]

Hyderabad: Chhath puja is here and the enthusiasm of the festivities can be felt everywhere. The ancient hindu Vedic festival marks the most enjoyable time frames for the people of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh as all the family members come together to celebrate the festive occasion with joy. Unlike other Indian festivals, this one is […]

Hyderabad: Traffic congestion at Owaisi Hospital Junction and Midhani Junction, two of the busiest spots in Chandrayangutta are all set to ease, with work progressing quite fast on a three-lane uni-directional flyover. The flyover, which facilitates traffic coming from Midhani Junction and going to Owaisi Hospital Junction, starts near the Midhani Junction and ends around […]

Hyderabad: Consumption of unstamped meat continues unabated in Hyderabad despite Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) conducting a series of awareness programmes on the need to consume only stamped meat and also conducting raids on shops involved in selling unstamped meat. As a rule, eateries are supposed to only use meat from notified slaughterhouses, which are […]

Hyderabad: Telangana reported 161 new Covid infections and one fatality on Monday taking the cumulative number of deaths to 3,967 and the total number of positive cases to 6, 72, 650. The number of active cases in Telangana, as on Monday, was 3, 750. The authorities today conducted 37, 844 Covid tests of which results […]

Hyderabad: The operation and maintenance (O&M) of the sewerage system in the peripheral circles of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is further being strengthened with Rs 35 crore. To execute the task, 792 locations, where sewage overflow is more compared to other places in the city have been identified. “At these 792 hotspots, works […]

Hyderabad: A special campaign pertaining to special summary revision of electoral rolls 2022 (Revision of voter list) will be held on November 6 and 7 . As a part of the exercise, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) officials will be available at all polling stations located in 15 Assembly constituencies of the Hyderabad district. […]

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has written to the State government seeking permission to form a city-level task force to implement the plastic ban. The GHMC Commissioner will be its chairperson and the task force will comprise GHMC’s Directorate of Enforcement Vigilance and Disaster Management (EVDM) officials. GHMC Zonal Commissioners, Additional Commissioners, officials […]

Hyderabad: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) intensified measures to fight vector-borne diseases. As part of this exercise, about 642 teams from the entomology wing inspected 23.90 lakh houses in October to check for mosquito larvae breeding and identified 47,103 houses where the breeding was taking place. The special teams apart from treating the breeding spots […]

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has appealed to property owners to get approvals for the change of usage of building from residential to commercial online by visiting the website, https://cr.ghmc.gov.in/. Owners or those occupying such buildings should file a self-declaration application online through the GHMC website from November 1 to December 31. “In […]