CONTONMENT BOARD

Secunderabad Cantonment Board is the civic administrative agency of Secunderabad cantonment area. Geographically, it lies in the twin cities of Hyderabad-Secunderabad. Secunderabad Cantonment Board is India’s second largest cantonment board,[1][2][3] after Bathinda Cantonment. There are eight civilian wards in Secunderbad Cantonment Board, with a population of four lakh.[4] Being primarily a military area, the Secunderabad cantonment comes under the administrative purview of the union defence ministry of the government of India. It is overseeing an area of 40.1 km2 (15.5 sq mi),[5]: 93  where there are several military camps.[6]: 2 [7] Secunderabad Cantonment has a huge land bank (about 2,000 acres), which has been protected since the British era.[8]