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Guntakal E-News Letter Edition- I January’ 17

GUNTAKAL MUNICIPALITY 0

Guntakal Municipality Anantapuramu District, Govt. Andhra Pradesh.

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Contact us:

Guntakal Municipal office, D.no: 18/1, Main Road,

Thilak Nagar, Guntakal-515801. Email: [email protected]

Website: http://guntakal.cdma.ap.gov.in/

Editor’s Voice 1

Current Activities 2

Schemes 4

Council Meeting 7

Happy Sunday Event 7

Sri.Y.Satyanarayana

Municipal Commissioner Guntakal

Smt. Kodela Aparna

Hon’ble Chair Person Guntakal

mailto:[email protected]

http://guntakal.cdma.ap.gov.in/



Editor’s voice : During the month of January Guntakal Municipality is implementing

schemes for development of the town. We are working on activities such as

Swachh Survekshan-2017, Happy Sunday Event, Poster Free Town and we

are also implementing the state and central government schemes such as

Implementation of Housing for all, Go-No 279 on Solid Waste Management

and AMRUT.

The Union Ministry of Urban Development launched Swachh

Survekshan 2017 to rank 500 cities/towns across the country on

cleanliness with a population of 1 lakh and above. The survey will be

conducted by Quality Council of India (QCI) under the Swacch Bharat

Abhiyan in a bid to encourage competition to improve sanitation. The QCI

survey team has visited Guntakal Municipality, monitored and conducted

survey from 30th to 31st January 2017.

Happy Sunday Event was conducted on 29.01.2017 at Weekly Market

road, The vision is to encourage people to congregate and develop living

streets — streets that encourage pedestrians, cyclists and other NMT

modes. On this day, predefined roads are blocked so that people can regain

ownership of the streets. The end goal is to help build safer, happier,

healthier and more sustainable cities where ownership of making cities

sustainable on citizens.

Sd/-

Commissioner,

Guntakal Municipality



i. Janmabhoomi Maa Ooru Program:

The Government of Andhra Pradesh has launched a people centred development and welfare outreach programme called “Janmabhoomi – Maa Vooru” in the month of October, 2014, and has since conducted three rounds of Janmabhoomi Programme. As the next phase, the 4th Round of Janmabhoomi Maa Vooru (JBMV) programme has been conducted from 2nd to 11th January, 2017 in all 37 election wards in the Municipality. During the program awareness is created on digital literacy and Puraseva application among the public. A total 6200 applications has been received in all categories such as Pensions, Housing, Ration cards, Individual Household Toilets, Tap House Service connections, voters, Gas connections etc.,

Current Activities



ii. Engineering Works: Under 13th Finance Commission CC Roads, Storm Water Drainage

and Watersupply works are under progress. Which are taken up with a total cost of Rs.2.62 Crores.

The above photograph shows the water supply works taken under 13th Finance Commission.

iii. Online Building permissions Online building approval systems which has been started from

31st March 2016, up to November 2016, we have 254 received

building applications, 189 applications got approved till January

2016. Revenue collected on building approvals for the month of

January is Rs.11,15,177 in the Guntakal town.



iv. Swachh Survekshan 2017

In order to foster a healthy competition between cities, the

Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) started the “Swachh

Sarvekshan” survey in 2016 which rated 73 cities across the country.

Following the same, the MoUD has issued guidelines for “Swachh

Sarvekshan” 2017 which will conduct a survey to rank 500 cities (having

a population of 1 lakh and above). The components covered in this

survey are:

• Solid Waste Management (SWM) including road sweeping,

municipal solid waste from residential, commercial areas and from

construction & demolition waste.

• Individual, community and public toilets

• Open defecation free city/town strategy

• Information, education and behaviour change communication

(IEBC) strategy, and

• ICT based system to enhance Urban Local Body (ULB)

operations.

The QCI survey team has visited Guntakal Municipality, monitored and

conducted survey from 30th to 31st January.



Swachh Survekshan 2017 – QCI Team inspection

AMRUT (State Annual Action Plan) 2015-16:

Under AMRUT scheme Water Supply tenders are received for 14.68

Crores and forwarded to Chief Engineer for finalization of bidder.

AMRUT (State Annual Action Plan) 2016-20:

Under AMRUT SAAP 2016-20 Water Supply, Children Park and Sewage

Treatment Plant (STP) works are proposed.

TEC team, PDMC (TCE) and SE (PH) Anantapur visited on January 9th

2017 to review the Water supply DPR and key fidings are noted and

suggested required changes to be done in the DPR.

Meeting with Technical Expert Committee and PDMC (TCE) on Water Supply DPR

SAAP 2016-20

Schemes



i. IHHT’s:

Under Swachh Bharat Mission,

Guntakal Municipal Commissioner

has sanctioned Individual Household

Toilets (IHHTs) for 22249

Households, by 31st January 2017

construction of 2163 Nos IHHTs is

completed. Percentage of achievement is 96%.

The above pics depicts the IHHTs constructed under Swachh Bharat Mission.

Disbursement of pensions to

the Old Age, Widow, Physically

Handicapped, Weavers and

eligible beneficiaries under

Abhaya Hastham are issuing

through Biometric system to

reduce malpractices, during

the 1st week of every month.

During the month of January

2017, total of 8714 pensions are distributed.

3842 Old Age, 3423 Widow, 1058 Physically Handicapped, 158

Weavers and 233 Abhaya Hastham pensions are disbursed.

Social Beneficiary Schemes



The council meeting was held on 31.01.2017. During the meeting

council has approved 13th Finance Commission Storm Water Drainage

works with a total amount of Rs.16.19 lakhs and tender of

procurement of 10 dumper bins with a cost of Rs. 4.95 lakhs are

approved by the council.

The vision is to encourage people to congregate and develop

living streets — streets that encourage pedestrians, cyclists and other

NMT modes. Streets are public assets but on most days are

monopolized by cars, two wheelers, trucks, buses etc. On this day,

predefined roads are blocked so that people can regain ownership of

the streets. The end goal is to help build safer, happier, healthier and

more sustainable cities where ownership of making cities sustainable

on citizens. Guntakal municipality have been planned to organize the

event on every fourth Sunday of the month. On an average 1500

citizens have participated in the event and made this event a great

success.

Council Meeting:

Happy Sunday Event held on 29.01.2017







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