Tenali Municipality
| Formation | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Type | Governmental organisation |
| Legal status | Local government |
| Purpose | Civic administration |
| Headquarters | Tenali |
| Location | |
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Official language
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Telugu |
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Chairman
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Pendela Venkat Rao |
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Municipal Commissioner
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S.Shakuntala |
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Main organ
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Committee |
| Website | tenali |
Tenali Municipality is the local self-government in Tenali, a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is classified as a special grade municipality.
The municipality was formed in 1909 and was upgraded to special grade municipality in 1965.
The municipality is spread over an area of 15.11 km2 (5.83 sq mi) and comprises, Tenali, Pinapadu and Chinaravuru. The present municipal commissioner of the city is S.Shakuntala and the chairperson is pendela venkat rao.
Wards composition
Tenali municipality has a total of 40 election wards. The below table shows the composition of municipal wards with unreserved and reserved wards (women, SC's, ST's and BC's).
Most of the city residents rely on borewells for water. For the growing usage by the city residents, the Public Health Department and the municipality took initiate for a water project, which includes, the construction of a head water works reservoir at VSR and NVR College compound, six other overhead service reservoirs and a filtration plant. These are supplied with the Krishna river water from Prakasam Barrage at Sitanagaram.
The city municipality implements two-bin garbage collection and also took up sanitation campaigns like, Mana Tenali-It’s people’s creation for hygiene of the people. The total length of roads maintained by the municipality is 172.50 km (107.19 mi).
Projects and infrastructure
The notable Satyanarayana VGTMUDA Lake Park (or Chinaravuru Park) on the outskirts is maintained by VGTMUDA (now CRDA). It is home to many floral varieties and was named after the former municipal chairman, Ravi Satyanarayana.
Tenali is one of the seven municipalities, along with Vijayawada and Guntur Municipal Corporations to be a part of a 15 MW waste-to-energy plant project. It is planned to be set up with the collaboration of the JITF Urban Infrastructure Limited.
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