The Khammam Municipal Corporation is a civic body of

Khammam Khammam formally (Khammam Mettu) is the city in Khammam district of the Indian state of Telangana. It is the fourth largest city in the state. It is the headquarters of the Khammam district and Khammam mandal also. It is located about east of ...

in the

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n state of

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India with a geographical area of and 3 ...

. It was formed on 19 October 2012.

History

The municipality of Khammam was constituted as a ''III–Grade'' in the year 1952. It was then upgraded to ''II–Grade'' in 1959, ''I–Grade'' in 1980 and then to ''Special Grade'' on 18 May 2001. The first municipal mayor for Khammam municipal corporation is Shri. Guguloth Papalal. The first woman mayor for Khammam Municipal Corporation is Smt. Punukollu Neeraja.

Jurisdiction

The corporation is spread over an area of with 51 election wards. Fourteen villages were merged into the corporation. The merged villages include, Ballepalli, Dwamsalapuram, Edulapuram, Gollagudem, Gudimalla, Gurralapadu, Kaikondaigudem, Khanapuram Haveli, Mallemadugu and Peddathanda, Polepalli, Velugumatla and Venkatagiri.

Administration

The corporation is administered by an elected body, headed by a mayor. The corporation population as per the

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was 153,756. The present commissioner of the corporation is G. Venugopal Reddy.

Elections

The first elections for Khammam Municipal Corporation has conducted on 6 March 2016. Around 68 percent of voters registered for the elections. A total of 291 candidates from TRS, TDP, Congress-CPI combine, CPI (M), YSR Congress, BJP and independents were in the fray for 50 divisions of the civic body. The city has 2,65,710 registered voters. Counting will be held on 9 March.

References

{{Telangana Municipal corporations in Telangana Local government in Telangana Khammam 2012 establishments in Andhra Pradesh