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Guntakal E-News Letter Edition- V August ’16 Guntakal Municipality Smt. Kodela Aparna Anantapuramu District, Govt. Andhra Pradesh. Sri.Y.Satya Narayana Hon’ble Chair Person Municipal Commissioner Guntakal Guntakal Contents Editor’s Voice 1 Current Activities and Schemes 2 Contact us: Guntakal Municipal office, D.no: 18/1, Main Road, Tilak Nagar, Guntakal-515801. Email: [email protected] Website: http://guntakal.cdma.ap.gov.in/ GUNTAKAL MUNICIPALITY 0 Guntakal E-News Letter Edition- V August ’16 Editor’s voice Guntakal is a Grade-I town in Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh. Guntakal town is located at 15’-10’ North latitude and 17’-23’ East longitude at an altitude of 1400 MSL. The town is a major railway junction and it is a divisional headquarters of South Central Railways. Guntakal Municipality has an extent of 40.87 Sq. Kms consisting of population 1,26,479 as per 2011 Census. The town is divided into 37 Election Wards and 23 Revenue Wards. Smart Pulse Survey has been conducted in the town at high priority basis, during the month of August total of 14550 households are surveyed. Filling of summer storage tank with raw water from Handri Neeva Canal and BT patch works on major roads in the town are the major works taken up during the month of August. Under AMRUT Scheme, for development of park in the layout open space beside Ayyappa Swamy temple, ETS survey of park site has been conducted with the AP Urban Green Corporation team. The Park is being developed in an extent of 1.10 acres with total amount of Rs.50 lakhs. As part of AMRUT reform replacement of conventional street lights with LED bulbs is taken-up and 100% of lights are replaced, after the completion of LED replacement there is 40% savings in monthly electricity consumption charges. Under Swachh Bharat scheme to make Open defecation free town, construction of community and Individual House Hold Toilets (IHHTs) is taken up. Construction of 9 community toilets are sanctioned for those having no space for IHHTs, and 6 community toilets construction is already started. Under IHHTs program total of 1826 toilets are sanctioned by Municipal commissioner out of which 1479 are completed, which is 81% achievement. GMC has declared 37 wards as Open Defecation Free (ODF) which is 100% ODF. GUNTAKAL MUNICIPALITY 1 Guntakal E-News Letter Edition- V August ’16 Current Activities and Schemes i. Filling of Summer Storage tank: Filling of summer storage tank with raw water from Handri neeva canal. ii. B.T Patch work: BT patch work are done on the major roads of Guntakal town with amount of Rs.5 lakhs under Municipal General Fund. GUNTAKAL MUNICIPALITY 2 Guntakal E-News Letter Edition- V August ’16 iii. Smart Pulse Survey: As part of the A.P state government initiative Smart pulse survey (Praja Sadhikara Survey) is being conducted in the town with 73 enumerators, till 31st August 2016, Survey of 14550 House holds is completed, the survey is being implemented at faster pace as it is high priority. Under AMRUT scheme 16.95 crores has been sactioned for providing 100% household water supply conections and developing a park with amount of Rs. 50 lakhs, A park will be developed beside Ayyappa Swamy temple with an extent of 1.10 acres, park DPR is submitted to SE (PH) for Technical Sanction. For water supply NIT is submitted to SE (PH) for approval, IBM is approved for the value of Rs.14.08 Crores (Capex). GUNTAKAL MUNICIPALITY 3 Guntakal E-News Letter Edition- V August ’16 i. Community Toilet: To make the city open defecation free as per the requirement construction of 12 Community Toilets has been taken up. Out of which 9 are being constructed Under Swachh Bharat Mission and 3 are being constructed under Municipal General Fund. Important locations were identified and proposed for the community toilets. So far 8 units are under construction with total number of 40 seats. One unit comprises of 5 seats each. ii. IHHT’s: Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Sri. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu with a goal to achieve ODF city under the newly launched campaign "Swachh Bharat Mission" on 2nd October 2014 by Hon'ble Prime Minister of India. This program is being implemented by Swachh Andhra Corporation which was incorporated on 1st May 2015. Under this programme municipal commissioner has sanctioned IHHTs for 1826 Households out of which 1479 Nos are completed till 30th August 2016. Percentage of achievement is 81%. GUNTAKAL MUNICIPALITY 4 Guntakal E-News Letter Edition- V August ’16 LED Lighting As part of AMRUT reform replacement of conventional street lights with LED bulbs is taken up, till the month of August 100% of street lights are replaced. After the completion of LED replacement the energy savings is very impressive there is 40% reduction in the power bill for the month of August. This picture depicts the replacement of conventional Street lights with LED lights. Social Beneficiary Schemes 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 August 2016, total of 8808 pensions are distributed. 3932 Old Age, 3404 Widow, 1075 Physically Handicapped, 161 Weavers and 236 Abhaya Hastham pensions are disbursed. GUNTAKAL MUNICIPALITY 5 .