Ponnur Municipality is the
local self government in
Ponnur
Ponnur is a town in Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. There was a festival on full moon day in May. A road to Chandole goes south-east and comes to Nidubrolu, where there is a temple with a stone bearing inscription recor ...
, a town 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 ...
of
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 ...
. It is classified as a ''Grade–II'' municipality.
History
The
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
was constituted in the year 1964 as ''Grade–III'' and then got upgraded in the year 1984 as a ''Grade–II'' municipality.
Administration
The jurisdictional area of the municipality is spread over an area of with 31 municipal and 16 revenue wards.
The ''Elected Wing'' of the municipality consists of a
municipal council
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, which has elected members and is headed by a
Chairperson
The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the grou ...
.
Whereas, the ''Executive Wing'' is headed by a
municipal commissioner.
The present chairperson of the municipality is ''Sajja Hemalatha'' and the present commissioner is ''M.Ramesh Babu''.
As per the survey conducted in 2014, there exists 60,600 households. In 2014–15, the total income generated by the municipality was and the expenditure spent was .
Civic works and services
The municipality supplies drinking and irrigation water to the town from the Kommamuru, Poondla and Alwala channels of Krishna Western Delta system. by means of
borewell
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s,
public taps and
water treatment
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plants. A total of 9 MLD (
million liters per day) of drinking water is supplied every day. There are of cement concrete roads and of drains and of storm water drains.
The other infrastructure covers street lights, markets, and burial grounds, and recreational centers like, parks, playgrounds, auditoriums, functional halls and worship centers like temples, mosques and churches. There are both government and private educational institutions from
primary to
high schools
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including
junior colleges
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. For public health, the municipality has a Government hospital and many other government and private nursing homes.
See also
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List of municipalities in Andhra Pradesh
The article lists all the urban local bodies, covering municipal corporations, municipalities and nagar panchayats in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The statistical data is based on Directorate of Town and Country Planning, Government of And ...
References
1964 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Government agencies established in 1964
Urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh
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