Translators to help mayor, deputy mayor talk

HYDERABAD: In a move that has raised several eyebrows in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), the new Mayor who does not follow Telugu language has put forward a proposal to purchase multilingual interpretation equipment to listen and understand the proceedings during the standing committee meetings.
This is on the lines of Parliament and Legislative Assembly and the GHMC is expected to acquire the simultaneous multilingual interpretation equipment soon.According to sources, this has become necessary as a majority of the corporators, including Mayor Majid Hussain and deputy mayor G Raj Kumar, are not able to understand 'other languages'. "The Mayor does not understand Telugu, while the deputy mayor does not know Hindi or Urdu," sources said.