Alwal

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Alwal Old Alwal
Neighbourhood
Medchal bound DEMU at Alwal Railway Station
Alwal Location in Hyderabad, India
Coordinates: 17°30′11″N 78°30′25″E / 17.503°N 78.507°E / 17.503; 78.507
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]