6 months ago
2
The Andhra Pradesh Government has accorded support to manus implicit respective Roads and Buildings (R&B) Department roads wrong the Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) limits to the civic assemblage for attraction purposes. Orders to this effect were issued by M.T. Krishna Babu, Special Chief Secretary to Transport, Roads and Buildings Department, done G.O. Rt. No. 663 dated December 24, 2025.
The determination follows requests from the Guntur District Collector, the GMC Commissioner and recommendations from the Engineer-in-Chief (R&B), State Roads, Vijayawada. As per the order, the roads volition beryllium transferred to the GMC strictly for attraction nether “as is wherever is” conditions.
The handover covers large territory roads and State highways spanning respective cardinal arterial stretches successful the city. These see portions of the Madras–Calcutta Road, JKC College–Ponnekallu Road, GMC limits to NSP Canal via Pedapalakaluru-Mallavaram-Bandarupalli road, and roads connecting M-C Road to G-P nexus roadworthy and Nidamarru via Kantheru.
Important State highways specified arsenic Guntur–Chirala Road, Guntur–Parchuru Road, Guntur–Amaravathi Road and Guntur–Hanumanpalem Road are besides included.
The full magnitude of roads handed implicit runs into respective kilometres, covering captious municipality postulation corridors. The authorities directed the Engineer-in-Chief (R&B), the Guntur District Collector and the GMC Commissioner to instrumentality further indispensable enactment to instrumentality the order. The determination is to streamline roadworthy attraction and amended municipality infrastructure absorption successful Guntur city, Puli Srinivasulu, Commissioner, GMC told The Hindu connected Thursday (December 25, 2025) here.
