Guntakal E-News Letter Edition- VI September ’16

Guntakal Municipality

Smt. Kodela Aparna Anantapuramu District, Govt. . 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/

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Guntakal E-News Letter Edition- VI September ’16

Editor’s voice Guntakal is a Grade-I town in 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.

During the month of September Guntakal Municipality has taken Sanitation as a challenge and conducted a special sanitation drive program throughout the town during which the awareness is conducted among the public through rally and by involving students in the program.

Smart Pulse Survey has been conducted in the town at high priority basis, till the month of September total of 22,356 households are surveyed.

Under AMRUT Scheme, the NIT of Water Supply and Park is approved and tenders will be called in the month of October 2016.

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 1901 toilets are sanctioned by Municipal commissioner out of which 1635 are completed, which is 86% achievement.

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Current Activities and Schemes

i. 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 44 enumerators, till 30th September 2016, Survey of 22,356 House holds is completed, the survey is being implemented at faster pace as it is high priority.

The above picture shows the field visit by the Municpal Commissioner, ACP and Master Trainer.

ii. Construction of Storm water Drains: Storm water drains are constructed Near Sairatna Estate 1st ward under general funds with an amount of Rs. 2 lakhs. Which will help in reduction of inundation of the area and water stagnation in the ward.

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Guntakal E-News Letter Edition- VI September ’16 iii. Sanitation Special Drive Sanitation Special Drive program is counducted in Guntakal town, during which awareness is created among the public by using slogans and educating public to keep the premises neat and clean. During the program rally was conducted through out the town, desilting of drains, Awareness creation about not to store water in tanks with out lids. During the program Hon’ble MLA, Hon’ble Chair Person, RDMA, Municipal Commissioner, CI of Guntakal police, Municipal Staff and 3000 students participated in the rally.

The above photograph depicts the Hon’ble MLA, Hon’ble Chair person, RDMA, Commissoner and Students participation in the rally.

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. NIT for water supply is approved on: 27.09.2016 NIT for Park is approved on: 08.09.2016 Tenders will be called in the next month.

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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 . 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 1901 Households out of which 1635 Nos are completed till 30th September 2016. Percentage of achievement is 86%.

LED Lighting

As part of AMRUT reform replacement of conventional street lights with LED bulbs is taken up, during the month of September 100% of street lights are replaced. After the completion of LED replacement the energy savings

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is very impressive there is 40% reduction in the power bill for the month of September same as the month of August.

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 September 2016, total of 8813 pensions are distributed.

3929 Old Age, 3415 Widow, 1073 Physically Handicapped, 161 Weavers and 235 Abhaya Hastham pensions are disbursed.

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