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HMDA To Formally Replace HUDA In A Week
Posted by Pradeep Sadanapalli | August 10, 2008 | 330 views
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Loading ...The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) will formally come into being in a fortnight from now, more than four months after the state legislature passed a Bill to replace the 33-year-old Hyderabad Urban Development Authority.
The Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department (MAUD) is giving final touches to the relevant rules to operationalise the new body. Once in place, the HMDA will cover an area of 6,856 sq. km spread over five districts and become the third largest metropolitan region development authority in the country after the National Capital Region of Delhi (30,000 sq. km) and Bengaluru (8,000 sq. km). Mumbai comes next to Hyderabad with 4,272 sq. km.
The state legislature passed a Bill in the Budget session for the constitution of the HMDA with the Chief Minister as its chairman and the municipal administration minister as its vice-chairman…
The HMDA will be spread over five districts — Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Nalgonda, Mahbubnagar and Medak — covering 54 mandals. It will be a high-powered “body corporate” comprising an ‘authority’ and an Executive Committee. Ranging from the state chief secretary, the authority will have as members the GHMC Commissioner, principal secretaries of revenue, MAUD, panchayat raj, environment and forests, transport, roads and buildings, vice-chairmen and managing directors of the APSRTC, APTransco, APIIC besides four MLAs/MLCs representing the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, and four elected representatives from the local authorities. A metropolitan commissioner of the rank of additional chief secretary/principal secretary will be the member-convenor of the authority.
The metropolitan commissioner will also be the chairman of the executive committee that will be responsible for planning and implementing the decisions of the HMDA. A metropolitan development fund with a seed capital of Rs 200 crore and a revolving fund of Rs 100 crore is being created for the HMDA.
While the HMDA will get 10 per cent of the total receipts of urban local bodies under its jurisdiction, it will also have power to levy specific cess for capital infrastructure projects. The HMDA will also raise funds through bonds, debentures and external loans to carry out its tasks.
SOURCES:
Deccan Chronicle
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