Mangalagiri Tadepalli Municipal Corporation is the local self government in

Mangalagiri Mangalagiri is a South Suburb of Vijayawada in Guntur district of Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The town is a part of Mangalagiri Tadepalle Municipal Corporation and part of Tenali revenue division. It is a major sub urban of Vijayawada and ...

, Tadepalle towns of the

Indian state India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions. History Pre-indepen ...

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

. It is classified as a ''Municipal Corporation''.

Administration

The

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

was establishment in the year 1969 and has an extent of . Mangalagiri municipality and its outgrowths of Navuluru and Atmakur are a part of Vijayawada urban agglomeration. In March 2021 Mangalagiri Municipality and Tadepalli Municipality are merged and formed Mangalagiri Tadepalli Municipal Corporation. The ''Elected Wing'' of the municipality consists of a

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counc ...

, which has elected members and is headed by a

Chairperson The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the grou ...

. Whereas, the ''Executive Wing'' is headed by a municipal commissioner. Mangalagiri municipality has a total of 32 election wards. The below table shows the composition of municipal wards with unreserved and reserved (women, SC's, ST's and BC's) categories. AP government introduced new GO to merge Atmakuru, Nowluru, Bethapudi, Yerrabalem and Chinakakani in Mangalagiri Municipality.

Civic works and services

The municipality works on improving civic needs such as, sewerage, storm water drains, solid waste management, and it even takes care of laying cement roads, providing drinking water, internal road widening etc. The municipality also takes up the process of beautification, which certain works like, tree plantations, maintaining parks, laying dividers and pavements. The town has a water pumping station, which draws water from the nearby

Prakasam Barrage The Prakasam Barrage stretches 1223.5 m across the Krishna River connecting Vijayawada, NTR and Mangalagiri Tadepalle Municipal Corporation, Guntur districts in Andhra Pradesh, India. The barrage serves also as a road bridge and spans over a l ...

and is supplied to the filtration plants for water supply. Projects Mangalagiri is one of the seven municipalities, along with

Vijayawada Vijayawada, formerly known as Bezawada, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and is a part of the state's Capital Region. It is the administrative headquarters of the NTR district. Its metropolitan region comprises N ...

and

Guntur Municipal Corporation Guntur Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the Guntur City in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the oldest municipalities and the third largest municipal corporation in the state. History Guntur municipality wa ...

s to be a part of a ''15 MW waste-to-energy plant'' project. It is planned to be set up with the collaboration of the ''JITF Urban Infrastructure Limited''.

Awards and achievements

In 2015, the municipality received ''Green Leaf Awards 2015'' in the category of ''Best Municipality'', which was organised by ''NGO Sukuki Exnora''. 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)''.

References

{{Urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh 1969 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Government agencies established in 1969 Municipalities of Andhra Pradesh Urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh

Administration

Civic works and services

Awards and achievements

See also

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