Bhimavaram Municipality
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Bhimavaram Municipality is the local self-government in
Bhimavaram Bhimavaram is a city and headquarters of West Godavari district of the Andhra Pradesh state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bhimavaram mandal in Bhimavaram revenue division. It is a part of Bhimavaram Urban Development Aut ...
of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is classified as a ''Selection Grade Municipality''.


Administration

The municipality was formed in April 1948 as Grade–III municipality. Over the years, it got upgraded and was constituted finally as ''Special Grade Municipality'' in September 2011, with the first ever elected council was formed in August 1949. The municipality is spread over an area of and has 39 election wards. each represented by a ward member and the wards committee is headed by a chairperson. The present municipal commissioner of the city is B.R.Satyanarayana and the present chairman is Kotikalapudi Govinda Rao. Timeline


Civic infrastructure and services

The municipality takes certain measures such as, prevent spreading of diseases, motor pumping of stagnant flood water during heavy rains, improving drainage channels and pipelines etc.


Awards and achievements

The city is one among the 31 cities in the state to be a part of water supply and sewerage services mission known as '' Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)''. In 2015, as per the ''
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India in 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management. It is a restructured version of ...
'' of the Ministry of Urban Development, Bhimavaram Municipality was ranked 342nd in the country.


See also

* List of municipalities in Andhra Pradesh


References

{{Urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh 1948 establishments in India Government agencies established in 1948 Municipal Councils in Andhra Pradesh