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Mayor Peela Srinivasa Rao and Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation Commissioner Ketan Garg connected Wednesday said respective cardinal initiatives are presently nether mode successful the city, including the instauration of astute vending zones, implementation of the AI-driven postulation absorption strategy Project SARTHI, and betterment of streetlighting. Addressing an yearly property league astatine the GVMC office, they said immoderate of these projects are expected to beryllium completed wrong 50 days of the New Year. They besides said the International Finance Corporation has committed up to $60 million, equivalent to ₹498 crore, to GVMC for the Madhurawada Sewerage System Project, which is among the large projects awaited successful the New Year.
They said that during the fiscal twelvemonth 2025–26, GVMC has taken up 1,667 works with an estimated outgo of ₹657.39 crore. Of these, 486 works worthy ₹82.75 crore person been completed truthful far, portion the remaining works are nether execution. The civic assemblage has besides projected the improvement of 88.35 km of roads nether the Public-Private Partnership Hybrid Annuity Model astatine an estimated outgo of ₹306.95 crore, with a one-year operation play followed by a 10-year cognition and attraction phase. The connection is presently nether process for administrative sanction.
Mr. Garg said that nether Operation Life to Urban Green Spaces, measures were taken to support unfastened spaces successful layouts and unauthorised constructions were removed crossed the city. To enactment thoroughfare vendors and SHG women, 3 astute vending markets are being developed astatine Yendada, Central Park and Duvvada. Under the 15th Finance Commission grants, ₹129.25 crore has been allocated for 32 works, including aerial prime improvement, end-to-end roadworthy paving astatine 20 locations and junction betterment works. In addition, ₹222 crore is being utilised for 20 large works related to h2o supply, sewage recycling and rejuvenation of h2o bodies. Pipeline works worthy ₹94.41 lakh are nether mode from Aganampudi to Anakapalle and Narava.
He said GVMC is presently maintaining 1.18 lakh LED thoroughfare lights crossed each wards. To widen sum to recently developed areas, works person been initiated to instal 10,545 further thoroughfare lights astatine an estimated outgo of ₹6.71 crore. Referring to caller proposals, Mr. Garg said a ₹595 crore task has been projected to augment h2o proviso by 85 MLD successful Zone 2, covering Madhurawada and Mudasarlova. Proposals for mounting up a 15 MW star powerfulness works nether the PPP exemplary and for processing a sports analyzable connected an eight-acre tract astatine Bheemili are nether examination.
During 2025–26, retired of 1,282 identified vacant spaces, 740 are being developed into greenish parks with autochthonal works taxon and children’s play areas. He said the city’s quality is further enhanced by 200 parks, 72 postulation islands, a 48 km greenish belt, 133 km of broadside and cardinal medians, and formation beforehand parks with fountain systems. Mr. Garg said that betwixt September 2024 and December 4, 2025, a full of 91.84 lakh radical availed meals astatine Anna Canteens, with an mean regular footfall of 25,727. For 2025–26, GVMC has acceptable a spot taxation postulation people of ₹600 crore, and from April 1 to December 15, 2025, it has collected ₹357.85 crore.
