m.v. satyanarayana

Vigilance and enforcement DG K V Rajendranath Reddy, CM’s chief security officer A Joshi, and Vijayawada west ACP K Sudhakar are among the 17 police personnel from Andhra Pradesh to win the President’s police medals. While Rajendranath Reddy and Sudhakar won in the category of distinguished service, Joshi got the medal for meritorious service.

Former police commissioner Satya Pal Singh retained the Baghpat Lok Sabha seat, but two other IPS officers failed to open their account.

A year after being divided, the Boards of Intermediate Education (BIE) of the two states are once again reeling under bifurcation blues.

Unauthorized construction in cellars of commercial buildings is going on unabated, crowding areas and leading to parking problems on busy roads in the city.

The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) will install tracking systems in vehicles transporting drinking water and garbage in the city, commissioner M V Satyanarayana said here on Wednesday.

Principal secretary of Municipal Administration and Urban Development Sam Bob cautioned marriage halls against flouting fire safety norms.

Open defecation still hinders growth in Vizag. Every city, including Visakhapatnam, should have been free of open defecation by December 31, 2012, according to the National Urban Sanitation Policy-2012.

Satyanarayana instructed Rao to appoint senior assistant and junior accountant cadre staff of the accounts section as examiners of cheques for each authorized bank and tax collection counter of the GVMC.

With the ongoing Samaikyandhra stir paralyzing civic services, the state government on Saturday issued a GO bringing all the 162 municipalities and 19 municipal corporations, including Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) under the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) for a period of six months with effect from September 23.

The contract has already been given to an agency that would start the work in a couple of weeks, he said. "Visakhapatnam Port Trust will bear the full project cost of Rs 13.6 crore," said the civic chief.

The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has proposed various projects worth Rs 3,600 crore to develop the city under JNNURM-II.

The Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation in association with The Times of India is organising the first edition of the Pink Ribbon Walk in the city on November 17.

Vizagites watched in horror as the ongoing erosion took a dangerous turn on Saturday, with a nearly 18-20 feet long and five feet wide section of the footpath, along with a portion of the retaining wall, caving under the onslaught of the waves on Beach Road opposite the Rajiv Smriti Bhavan.

The state government’s ambitious plans of providing subsidized food through `Anna Canteens’ to the poor at throwaway prices has owners of roadside eateries and tiffin centres up in arms.

With Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's recent announcement regularizing posts of contract workers in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), contract workers in the city now have their fingers crossed that AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu too will follow suit and abolish the contract system in Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) to fill up the huge number of existing vacancies.

the city now have their fingers crossed that AP CM N Chandrababu Naidu too will follow suit and abolish the contract system in GVMC to fill up the huge number of existing vacancies.

GVMC has already assigned the architectural design work to the city-based Creative Aakruthi Architectural and Engineering Consultations (CAAEC).

Rabi Operations Begin But Credit Fails To Flow From Banks

Imagine a rat jumping straight out of one's toilet seat.This is just one of the horrors that the residents of Visakhapatnam have to put up with every day.Rats are everywhere in Vizag, terrorizing people.

According to sources, the team comprising engineers from Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (Vuda), GVMC, Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) and Andhra University visited CWPRI and held consultations with experts.