The Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (abbreviated: GWMC) is the civic body of

Warangal Warangal () is a city in the Indian state of Telangana and the district headquarters of Warangal district. It is the second largest city in Telangana with a population of 704,570 per 2011 Census of India, and spreading over an . Warangal ser ...

. Its geographical area covers most of that administered by the

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History

Warangal Municipality being one of the oldest in the

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was a major municipality in 1844

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. In July 1959 it was upgraded as a ''special grade'' municipality, in July 1960 into a ''selection grade'', and then on 18 August 1994 it was declared as ''

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''. On 28 January 2015, it is upgraded to Greater municipal corporation by Government of Telangana.

Smart city

The citizens of Warangal can hope for better facilities as the

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shortlisted it under the Smart Cities Mission. The program enables the city to secure funds from the central government in strengthening and extension of existing services and its infrastructure.

Clean Cities Championship

In 2012, the city of Warangal was generating 300 tonnes per day (TPD) of

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(MSW) of which about 60% was being collected by the GWMC. The residual MSW was piling up across the city, making it look untidy and creating an unsanitary environment. In these conditions, the GWMC devised an innovative solution to addressing MSW management – the Clean Cities Championship. Taking place over one week in mid October 2012, the GWMC invited waste management professionals from 57 municipalities across the state of

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to compete in the Clean Cities Championship. Leading up to the event, a multi-channel information and education campaign (IEC) created awareness and excitement about the event via billboards, posters, pamphlets, radio jingles, TV ads, street plays, a web portal and TV shows. All the Clean Cities Championship participants were divided into 386 teams, with each team being given the responsibility of waste collection from 500 households per day. The teams went door-to-door and demonstrated correct waste segregation techniques to the householders and gave them two bins, one each for wet and dry waste. Each team spent about fours hours per day collecting MSW from households on its route. The waste was then taken to central drop-off points where it was weighed and further segregated as required. The segregated waste was then taken to waste recovery facilities, which had been prepped ahead of time, here the organic waste underwent bio-methanation or

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ing, the

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waste was sorted and recycled and the inert waste was sent to Marikonda dumpsite 15 kilometers outside the city. National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadets were the monitors of the competition and marked the waste collection teams on attributes such as gloves worn, masks worn, etc. Each day one man and one woman from across all the teams won a prize. At the end of the week, the best team (

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) won the Clean Cities Championship trophy. Following the Clean Cities Championship, Warangal became the first city in India to achieve 100% door-to-door MSW collection. About 70% of households started practicing two-bin MSW segregation into wet and dry waste. 420 cement bins and 128 dumpsters were removed from locations across Warangal making it a no dump city. GWMC was able to reduce the MSW going to landfill by 30% to 40% and the dumpyard with significantly reduced load is, in phases, being converted into a nature park with

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ing sheds.

Administration

Jurisdiction

Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) Inclusion of 42 Gram Panchayats into the limits. * Allipur * Nakkalapally * Ayhodhyapuram * Tekulagudem * Bhattupalli * Taralapally * Kadipikonda * Thimmapur * Kummarigudem * Bheemaram * Paidipally * Devannapet * Chinthagattu * Hasanparthy * Pegadapally * Komatipally * Yellapur * Mucherla * Mogilicherla * Munipally * Rampur * Dharmaram * Vanagapahad * Dupakunta * Gundlasingaram * Gorrekunta * Kothapeta * Potharajpally * Palivelpula * Stambhampally * Arepally * Vasanthapur * Enumamula * Janpaka * Gopalapuram * Unikicherla * Kothapally (H) * Singaram * Madikonda * Bollikunta * Mamunoor * Gadepallly

Politics

Political party performance in 2016:

List of mayors

References

External links

Greater Warangal NEWS

GWMC: Official Website

GWMC: Smart city Warangal Website
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