Visakhapatnam gets ₹1,501.03 crore Centre nod for water, drainage projects; Madhurawada gets lion’s share

The National Apex Committee (NAC) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has fixed in-principle support to 3 large proposals for Visakhapatnam’s development, with a full outlay of ₹1,501.03 crore.

The projects were cleared nether the Urban Challenge Fund (UCF) astatine a gathering successful New Delhi, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) Commissioner Ketan Garg told The Hindu on Wednesday (May 13, 2026).

Madhurawada gets the lion’s share

The largest stock of the concern is going to the Madhurawada maturation corridor, with ₹725.18 crore for a 24/7 astute h2o proviso strategy and ₹658.61 crore for an underground drainage (UGD) network. These projects see a 65 MLD h2o attraction works and a 20 MLD sewage attraction works utilizing Sequential Batch Reactor (SBR) technology.

City-wide automation against h2o losses

A 3rd project, valued astatine ₹117.24 crore, focuses connected the automation of bulk and semi-bulk h2o metering crossed Visakhapatnam. By integrating Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)-based systems and installing implicit 7,800 meters, the GVMC aims to amended billing accuracy, show accumulation nodes successful existent clip and trim non-revenue h2o (NRW) leakages.

Blended concern model

The portfolio is structured nether a blended concern model, combining a 25% Government of India (GoI) assistance via the UCF (₹375.26 crore) with multilateral financing from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and home slope lending from Canara Bank and Indian Overseas Bank (IOB).

GVMC Commissioner Ketan Garg said, “The authorisation was made arsenic a resounding endorsement of the city’s committedness to evidence-based and fiscally liable infrastructure planning.”