Hyderabad's civic body is split into three: GHMC, Cyberabad and Malkajgiri

Hyderabad Stories published this report on 11 October 2026 as part of a review of February 2026. It was drafted with AI assistance from the reports listed at the end, each read in full; quotations are as those reports printed them. Photo above — The GHMC head office in Hyderabad.

On 11 February 2026, a day after the Greater Hyderabad council's term ended on 10 February, the Telangana government issued two orders reorganising the city's civic administration. Government Order No. 55 divided the expanded Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation into three bodies.

Who governs which part of the city

• Cyberabad Municipal Corporation takes the former GHMC zones of Serilingampally, Kukatpally and Qutubullapur — the western IT corridor.
• Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation takes the former zones of Malkajgiri, Uppal and LB Nagar.
• A smaller GHMC keeps Shamshabad, Rajendranagar, Golconda, Charminar and Khairatabad.

R. V. Karnan continued as GHMC Commissioner. Two GHMC additional commissioners were promoted to run the new bodies: G. Srijana in Cyberabad and T. Vinay Krishna Reddy in Malkajgiri.

The split followed an expansion the year before, when the government decided to grow the corporation's jurisdiction from about 650 sq km to more than 2,000 sq km and its wards from 150 to 300 — a move the BRS and AIMIM had opposed.

The challenge

Within days the order was in court. In Writ Petition No. 4891 of 2026, D. Guruva Reddy argued that redrawing civic boundaries while Census house-listing was under way breached the Census Act, 1948 and a directive freezing jurisdictions until the Census is complete. On 19 February a bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G. M. Mohiuddin issued notices to the Centre and the state and gave them three weeks to file counter-affidavits.

The state described the reorganisation as "purely administrative", citing faster grievance redressal, better tax collection and the city's rapid growth. Union Minister of State Bandi Sanjay Kumar called it politically motivated.

Sources

• Telangana govt splits GHMC; Cyberabad and Malkajgiri corporations created — Siasat, 11 February 2026
• GHMC trifurcation challenged in Telangana High Court — The South First, 20 February 2026