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Jubilee Hall, venue for new corporators?

HYDERABAD: Jubilee Hall may be the venue for swearing-in the newly elected 150 corporators and also elect the new Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in December first week.

It’s inevitable as the choice is between Jubilee Hall and a function palace since the existing council hall inside the head office beside the Burugula Ramakrishna Rao Bhavan cannot accommodate all the newly-elected corporators, MLAs, MLCs and MPs as also officials and media.

As appropriate seating arrangements and visibility will not be possible in a private function palace, municipal officials are seriously thinking about finalising the venue in Public Gardens which also has ample parking place for not only corporators but ex-officio members like the 24 MLAs, six MLCs, six or seven Rajya Sabha MPs and five Lok Sabha MPs.

New council hall

In order to provide space to all these elected representatives and officials, GHMC has plans to construct a 15-storied council hall-cum-office complex on a one acre site near the Indira Park at a cost of Rs. 50 crore. Design consultants have been chosen for the new building which will be ready for use only after two years if not more.

The general body of the elected council have to meet once in three months and Jubilee Hall rent is Rs. 25,000 a day.

Officials have to decide whether it is apt to spend on the Hall or take up a proposal prepared by the engineering wing to redesign the existing council hall in the head office to accommodate the elected representatives at a cost of about Rs. 70 lakh.

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