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'''Bhimavaram Municipality''' is the [[Self-governance|local self-government]] in [[Bhimavaram]] of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.<ref name="civicbody">{{cite web|title=Municipalities, Municipal Corporations & UDAs|url=http://dtcp.ap.gov.in:9090/webdtcp/Municipalities%20List-110.pdf|website=Directorate of Town and Country Planning|publisher=Government of Andhra Pradesh|access-date=29 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128175528/http://dtcp.ap.gov.in:9090/webdtcp/Municipalities%20List-110.pdf|archive-date=28 January 2016}}</ref> It is classified as a ''Selection Grade Municipality''.<ref name="profile">{{cite web|title=Administration|url=http://bhimavarammunicipality.com/municipality.aspx|website=Bhimavaram Municipality|access-date=29 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015061008/http://bhimavarammunicipality.com/municipality.aspx|archive-date=15 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Administration ==

The [[municipality]] was formed in April 1948 as Grade–III municipality. Over the years, it got upgraded and was constituted finally as ''Special Grade Municipality'' in September 2011, with the first ever elected council was formed on August 1949.<ref name="profile" />

The municipality is spread over an area of {{Convert|25.64|km2|abbr=on}} and has 39 election wards.<ref name="civicbody" /> each represented by a ward member and the wards committee is headed by a chairperson.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Constitution (Seventy-Fourth Amendment) Act, 1992|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend74.htm|website=India Code|publisher=Ministry of Law and Justice, Legislative Department|access-date=28 March 2016}}</ref> The present [[municipal commissioner]] of the city is B.R.Satyanarayana and the present chairman is Kotikalapudi Govinda Rao.<ref>{{cite web|title=Contact Details of Commissioners and Mayors of Amrut Cities|url=http://amrut.gov.in/writereaddata/AMRUT_Cities-_Contact_details_of_Heads.pdf|website=Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation|publisher=Government of India|access-date=28 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415054833/http://amrut.gov.in/writereaddata/AMRUT_Cities-_Contact_details_of_Heads.pdf|archive-date=15 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

'''Timeline'''

{| class="wikitable"
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! Date !! Classification
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| April 1948 || Grade–III
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| August 1963 || Grade–II
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| October 1967 || Grade–I
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| April 1980 || Special Grade
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| September 2011 || Selection Grade
|}

== Civic infrastructure and services ==
The municipality takes certain measures such as, prevent spreading of diseases, motor pumping of stagnant flood water during heavy rains, improving drainage channels and pipelines etc.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rain paralyses life in Bhimavaram|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/rain-paralyses-life-in-bhimavaram/article5271456.ece|access-date=29 March 2016|work=The Hindu|date=25 October 2013|location=Eluru}}</ref>

== Awards and achievements ==
The city is one among the 31 cities in the state to be a part of water supply and sewerage services mission known as ''[[Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation]] (AMRUT)''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Vadlapatla|first1=Sribala|title=Amaravati among 31 AP cities selected for Amruth development|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Amaravati-among-31-AP-cities-selected-for-Amruth-development/articleshow/48431080.cms|access-date=18 December 2015|work=The Times of India|date=11 August 2015|location=Hyderabad}}</ref> In 2015, as per the ''[[Swachh Bharat Abhiyan]]'' of the [[Ministry of Urban Development]], Bhimavaram Municipality was ranked 342nd in the country.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sandeep Kumar|first1=S|title=Small towns fare better in Swachh Bharat rankings|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/small-towns-fare-better-in-swachh-bharat-rankings/article7520320.ece|access-date=30 March 2016|work=The Hindu|date=10 August 2015|location=Vijayawada}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of municipalities in Andhra Pradesh]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh}}

[[Category:1948 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Government agencies established in 1948]]
[[Category:Municipal Councils in Andhra Pradesh]]

Bhimavaram Municipality - Revision history

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