Gudivada Municipality is the local self government in

Gudivada Gudivada is a city in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Gudivada mandal in Gudivada revenue division. It is one of the cities in the state to be a part of Andhra Pradesh Capital ...

of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is classified as a special grade municipality, spread over an area of with 36 election wards.

History

The municipality was constituted in the year 1927.

Governance

The municipality consists of a chairperson and its wards committee. YSR Congress Party won the Gudivada municipal elections in 2014. TBA is the present chairman of the municipality and the vice-chairman is TBA. The present municipal commissioner is TBA.

Civic infrastructure and services

The city residents rely on hand pumps and motors for water. The shortage of water made the municipality to take certain measures like, providing new pipelines, construction of two summer storage tanks with a capacity of and etc. The municipality provides 87 litres of water per head every day. The other works such as, sewage, internal drainage system and road margins are also taken by the authorities. ''Sri Kodali Venkateswara Rao (Nani) Park'' (or ''Rajendra Nagar Park'') was constructed by the

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in 2005 and is maintained by the municipality.

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 Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission was renamed to Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and then relaunched by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in June 2015 with the focus to establish infrastructure tha ...

(AMRUT)''. In 2015, as per the '' Swachh Bharat Abhiyan'' of the

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, Gudivada Municipality was ranked 450th in the country.

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{{Urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh 1937 establishments in India Government agencies established in 1937 Urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh