Bhimavaram Municipality

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Bhimavaram Municipality
Formation1948
Merger of Municipal Corporation
Type Governmental organization
Legal status Local government
PurposeCivic administration
Headquarters Bhimavaram
Location
Official language
Telugu
Chairman
Kotikalapudi Govinda Rao
Municipal Commissioner
B.R.Satyanarayana
Main organ
Committee

Bhimavaram Municipality is the local self-government in Bhimavaram of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. [1] It is classified as a Selection Grade Municipality. [2]

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Administration

The municipality was formed in April 1948 as Grade–III municipality. Over the years, it got upgraded and was constituted finally as Special Grade Municipality in September 2011, with the first ever elected council was formed in August 1949. [2]

The municipality is spread over an area of 25.64 km2 (9.90 sq mi) and has 39 election wards. [1] each represented by a ward member and the wards committee is headed by a chairperson. [3] The present municipal commissioner of the city is B.R.Satyanarayana and the present chairman is Kotikalapudi Govinda Rao. [4]

Timeline

DateClassification
April 1948Grade–III
August 1963Grade–II
October 1967Grade–I
April 1980Special Grade
September 2011Selection Grade

Civic infrastructure and services

The municipality takes certain measures such as, prevent spreading of diseases, motor pumping of stagnant flood water during heavy rains, improving drainage channels and pipelines etc. [5]

Awards and achievements

The city is one among the 31 cities in the state to be a part of water supply and sewerage services mission known as Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT). [6] In 2015, as per the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan of the Ministry of Urban Development, Bhimavaram Municipality was ranked 342nd in the country. [7]

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