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Following the Government Order G.O.Ms.No.65, issued connected March 24, the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Department released a notification connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026), for the delimitation of 87 municipalities and 13 municipal corporations successful Andhra Pradesh.
According to the notification 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.
The delimitation is done pursuing the colonisation criteria, arsenic per the 2011 Census.
In the G.O.Ms.No.65, the Department 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 for fixation of spot of elected members successful municipalities, Nagar Panchayats and successful municipal corporations successful the State.
Accordingly, the fig of elected members has been fixed astatine 60 successful a section assemblage with a colonisation beneath 2 lakh; for a colonisation betwixt 2 lakh and 3 lakh, the fig of elected members is 62; for a colonisation betwixt 3 lakh and 4 lakh, the fig is 66; for a colonisation betwixt 4 lakh and 5 lakh, the fig is 68; for a colonisation betwixt 5 lakh and 6 lakh, the fig of elected members is 72; for a colonisation betwixt 6 lakh and 10 lakh, the fig is 76; for a colonisation betwixt 10 lakh and 15 lakh, the fig is 86; and for a colonisation supra 15 lakh, the fig of elected representatives is 120.
