GHMC Mayor Banda Kartikha Reddy seeking an continuing of her term for one more year appears to have been outstanding.

According to sources, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has agreed to allow Kartikha Reddy to continue on her posts for another six months. Similarly, Deputy Mayor Jaffer Hussain Meraj of MIM will continue on his post.

The swapping of Mayor and Deputy Mayor's posts between the Congress and MIM would happen in May 2012, instead of December this year.

The Congress and MIM was to hold the Mayor and Deputy Mayor's posts respectively for the first two years and the last year in five year term of the GHMC. 

Sources say that as per the fresh understanding, both the parties will continue on their posts and the swapping will take place in the month of May next year.

Although the Congress will lose six months of its stake on the Mayor's posts, it will able to avoid a major crisis in the city Congress.

Similarly, the MIM is happy that instead of two years it will be able to hold the post for an additional six months.

Although this decision is yet to be announced officially, the same has been conveyed to prominent corporators of both the parties. They have been asked to continue regular functioning as there would be no change in the Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the next six months. 

Meanwhile, the members of GHMC's Standing Committee on Friday had an informal meeting and decided to constitute 15 sub-committee with each dealing with specific subjects like sanitation, street lights, town planning and health.