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 "Andhra ...

, a city in the

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. It is classified as a ''Selection 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 in ...

and Chinaravuru. The present municipal commissioner of the city is B Seshanna . 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

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s 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

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water from

Prakasam Barrage The Prakasam Barrage stretches 1223.5 m across the Krishna River connecting Vijayawada and Guntur district, Guntur districts in Andhra Pradesh, India. The Barrage (dam), barrage serves also as a road bridge and spans over a lake. The three canal ...

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 (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

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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 w ...

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 ''

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(AMRUT)''. In 2015, as per the ''

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'' 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

History

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