GVMC plans special action plans for development of Pendurthi and Aganampudi

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Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) Mayor Peela Srinivasa Rao.

Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) Mayor Peela Srinivasa Rao. | Photo Credit: File photo

Mayor Peela Srinivasa Rao assured connected Thursday that large issues successful the Pendurthi Zone including —24/7 drinking h2o supply, Under Ground Drainage (UGD) connections, roads, drains, and thoroughfare lights volition beryllium resolved astatine the earliest. He besides announced that peculiar enactment plans volition beryllium taken up for the improvement of Pendurthi and Aganampudi Zones.

He was speaking astatine the zonal-level reappraisal gathering organised by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) connected Thursday. Pendurthi MLA Panchakarla Ramesh Babu, GVMC Commissioner Ketan Garg, and heads of assorted departments attended the meeting.

Pendurthi MLA Panchakarla Ramesh Babu requested peculiar enactment plans for the improvement of merged areas successful Pendurthi and Aganampudi Zones, contiguous completion of the incomplete NAD–Pendurthi and Simhachalam–Vepagunta BRTS roadworthy works, and completion of airdrome connectivity maestro program roadworthy works done coordinated efforts of Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA), Endowment, Forest, Defence, and different departments. He besides stressed the request to support authorities properties from encroachments. The MLA further sought betterment of the drainage systems, repairs to beryllium carried retired connected the Meghadrigedda reservoir gates, constitution of 24/7 h2o proviso successful the Pendurthi country and completion of the TIDCO houses successful the Pendurthi Zone.

Corporators from the Pendurthi and Aganampudi Zones complained astir the deficiency of capable sanitation unit successful their wards, hold successful improvement works, Transferable Development Rights (TDR) issues and different issues.

Addressing the meeting, Commissioner Ketan Garg said that arsenic per the authorities directions, GVMC has been reorganized into 10 zones to guarantee balanced improvement crossed each zones. He assured that peculiar enactment plans would beryllium taken up with precedence for the improvement of the Pendurthi and Aganampudi Zones. He said that the issues and developmental works suggested by the MLAs and corporators would beryllium considered and addressed done due enactment plans. Night-time sanitation works would beryllium initiated successful the Pendurthi and Aganampudi Zones arsenic required.

Chief Medical Officer Srinivasa Rao, Town Planning Officer Meena Kumari and others were present.

Published - January 22, 2026 11:23 p.m. IST

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