Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) is the civic body that governs the city of

Guntur Guntur () is a city and the administrative headquarters of Guntur district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Guntur is spread across 168.49 km square and is the third-largest city in the state. It is situated to the west of the Ba ...

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 ...

History

The Guntur Municipality was created on 1 April 1888. It was named as a selection grade municipality in 1960 and to corporation in 1981. In 1985 Gunadala, Patamata and Bhavanipuram

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s, Payakapuram, Kundavari Kandrika were merged in the corporation.

Administration

The area of Guntur Municipal Corporation is . The Corporation is administered by an elected body headed by the Mayor. The corporation population as per the 2011 census was 1,039,518 with 527,307 males and a female population of 512,211. The present mayor is Koneru Sreedhar and the municipal commissioner is Sri Prasanna Venkatesh, I.A.S .

Civic services

The corporation provides protected drinking water to its public and is the forerunner in the state with every day supply of water to the city residents. The other services undertaken by the corporation authorities are: Internal roads extension; under ground drainage project with JNNURM; solid waste management which is recycled at waste to energy plants for power production;

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s; schools from elementary to high schools and even providing midday meals to students. The Krishna river, groundwater and overhead tanks are the source of drinking water for the city residents. The underground and open draining systems are implemented for wastewater. There are also sewage treatment plants and the Budameru, Gundutippa, Islampeta and HB drains are utilized for draining out waste water. The Railway dumping yard is utilized for solid waste dumping and some of the solid waste produced is made useful by converting them into

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. There are a total of 32,262

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in Corporation's area.

Infrastructure

Certain municipal sporting infrastructure in the city are maintained by the corporation, which includes, Indira Gandhi Stadium, indoor stadiums, swimming pools and Gymnasiums. There are parks and open spaces as part of city greenery projects.

Awards and achievements

Accolades and awards won by VMC include: * National Urban Water Award (2009) * CRISIL Best Practices Award for the "Siti e-Governance" Project * CSI Nihilent runner-up award was conferred by Ministry of Information and Technology * Stockholm Challenge Award finalist * ISO 9001 Certified for Quality Management System

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