Paper I · 12 Local Self-Government · TGPSC MPSO / ASO
12.4 Urban local bodies notes
2 notes, in reading order.
- 12.4.174th Amendment and the Telangana Municipalities Act 2019: municipalities and municipal corporations
The 74th Amendment (1992) made municipalities constitutional bodies; in Telangana every municipal council and municipal corporation except the Hyderabad group is governed by the Telangana Municipalities Act, 2019, which runs them through an elected council, an indirectly elected chairperson or mayor and a government-appointed commissioner, with strict green, sanitation and online-service duties.
Standard · 17 min · Full course - 12.4.2Greater Hyderabad: GHMC, its Act, wards and the metropolitan bodies
Hyderabad's civic body grew from the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (under a 1955 Act) into the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation in 2007, swelled to about 2,053 sq km after 27 towns merged in December 2025, and on 11 February 2026 was split into three corporations (GHMC, Cyberabad and Malkajgiri), while planning, water and lake protection sit with separate bodies such as HMDA, HMWSSB and HYDRAA.
Standard · 13 min · Full course
Practise Urban local bodies. Questions with answers explained, from the same topics.
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