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Alwal
Old Alwal | |
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Neighbourhood | |
Coordinates: 17°30′11″N 78°30′25″E / 17.503°N 78.507°E | |
Country | India |
State | Telangana |
District | Medchal-Malkajgiri district |
City | Secunderabad |
Government | |
• Body | GHMC |
Population | |
• Total | 240,000 |
Languages | |
• Official | Telugu |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
PIN | 500010 |
Lok Sabha constituency | Malkajgiri |
Vidhan Sabha constituency | Malkajgiri |
Planning agency | GHMC, Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority |
Alwal is in Hyderabad city, and a suburb of Hyderabad. Earlier, Alwal was a part of Malkajgiri Mandal but in 2006, Alwal Municipality was merged into Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. After the district bifurcation in 2017, Alwal Municipality became a new Mandal "Alwal Mandal", in Malkajgiri revenue division, with Alwal as the Mandal Headquarters.[1] It was a part of Ranga Reddy district before the re-organisation of districts in the state.[2] It was a municipality prior to its merger into the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.[3]
This area is booming as residents of central Hyderabad are moving to Alwal to escape traffic congestion and pollution[according to whom?]. However, Alwal too has fallen prey to increasing commercialization and rampant construction activity contributing to pollution and other ills. No proper town planning of once-spacious suburb of Alwal is leaving its "lung spaces", so to speak, thoroughly constricted [according to whom?]. The nearby cantonment (military) area offers good lung space for morning walkers/joggers, but this too had been debarred by the Army officials.[4]