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Following the issuance of a Government Order, G.O.Ms. No. 65, connected March 24, the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Department released a circular connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026), for the delimitation of wards successful Urban Local Bodies, including 87 municipalities, nagara panchayats and 13 municipal corporations successful Andhra Pradesh based connected population.
According to the circular signed by MA&UD Commissioner and Director P. Sampath Kumar, the fig of wards has accrued arsenic follows: successful Visakhapatnam, from 98 to 120; successful Vijayawada, from 64 to 86; successful Guntur, from 57 to 76; successful Nellore, from 54 to 72; successful Kurnool, from 52 to 68; successful Tirupati, from 50 to 66; and successful Anantapur, from 50 to 62, among others.
MA&UD Principal Secretary S. Suresh Kumar said the determination of delimitation of wards successful ULBs has been taken to rationalise the fig of wards arsenic per the rising population. The colonisation figures of the 2011 Census person been adopted for the process.
In the G.O., the section had projected to amend the rules of the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities (Fixation of Strength of Nagar Panchayats and Municipal Councils) Rules, 2004, and Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations (Fixation of Strength of Elected Members) Rules, 2005, based connected colonisation criteria.
Proportionate hike
Accordingly, the fig of elected members has been fixed astatine 60 successful a municipal corp with a colonisation beneath 2 lakh; 62 members for colonisation betwixt 2 lakh and 3 lakh; 66 for colonisation betwixt 3 lakh and 4 lakh; 68 for colonisation betwixt 4 lakh and 5 lakh; 72 for colonisation betwixt 5 lakh and 6 lakh; 76 for colonisation betwixt 6 lakh and 10 lakh; 86 for colonisation betwixt 10 lakh and 15 lakh; and 120 elected representatives for colonisation supra 15 lakh. Similar changes person been made for municipalities, depending connected the population.
It whitethorn beryllium noted that the word of elected representatives successful 86 retired of 123 ULBs successful the State, which went to polls successful March 2021, came to an extremity connected March 13. Special Officers volition beryllium successful complaint of these ULBs until elections are held.
