India, Jan. 30 -- The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has transferred and formally handed over five residential colonies to the Ghaziabad municipal corporation and also agreed to pay Rs.66.32 crore to the civic agency, officials said on Thursday.

The hand over indicates that maintenance of the civic infrastructure in terms of sewer, water, cleaning, street lights, maintenance of parks, etc, will now be taken up by the corporation.

The move came after the officials of the two agencies signed an agreement for the hand over and takeover at the GDA headquarters on Wednesday.

Officials said that the five colonies developed by GDA include Swarn Jayanti Puram, Karpuri Puram (b block), Bhaurao Devras scheme (KA and KB blocks), Pratap Vih...