Tenali Municipality is the

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Tenali Tenali is a city in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Tenali mandal and Tenali revenue division. The city is renowned for art, culture, drama and hence, it is called ''Andhr ...

, a city in 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 ''special grade'' ''municipality''.

History

The

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was formed in 1909 and was upgraded to special grade municipality in 1965.

Administration

The municipality is spread over an area of and comprises

Pinapadu Pinapadu is a suburb in Tenali, Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Tenali mandal of Tenali revenue division. It is one of the important residential area in Tenali. The Major part of Pinapadu was in located i ...

and Chinaravuru. The present municipal commissioner of the city is Venkata Krishna. Wards composition Tenali municipality has a total of 40 election wards. The below table shows the composition of municipal wards with unreserved and reserved wards (women, SC's, ST's and BC's).

Civic works and services

Most of the city residents rely on borewells for water. For the growing usage by the city residents, the ''Public Health Department'' and the municipality undertook a water project, which includes the construction of a head water works reservoir at VSR and NVR College compound, six other overhead service reservoirs and a filtration plant. These are supplied with the Krishna river water from Prakasam Barrage at Sitanagaram. The city municipality implements two-bin garbage collection and also took up sanitation campaigns like, ''Mana Tenali-It’s people’s creation'' for hygiene of the people. The total length of roads maintained by the municipality is . Projects and infrastructure The notable ''Satyanarayana VGTMUDA Lake Park'' (or Chinaravuru Park) on the outskirts is maintained by

VGTMUDA VGTM Urban Development Authority (abbreviated:VGTM–UDA) (also known as Vijayawada Guntur Tenali Mangalagiri Urban Development Authority) is an urban planning agency in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It was formed in the year 1978 and co ...

(now CRDA). It is home to many floral varieties and was named after the former municipal chairman, ''Ravi Satyanarayana''. Tenali 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

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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 Decentralised Solid Waste Management'', which was organised by ''NGO Sukuki Exnora''. In the 6th Plasticon Awards 2012, it was awarded ''Green City'' of the country for waste segregation management. 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 o ...

'' of the

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, Tenali Municipality was ranked 166th in the country.

References

1909 establishments in India Government agencies established in 1909 Urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh Government of Tenali Buildings and structures in Tenali {{Guntur-geo-stub

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