Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation to crack the whip on hospitals...
VISAKHAPATNAM: In what promises to be a dose of bitter medicine for the scores of hospitals in the city, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has decided to crack the whip on...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation eyes defence tech to build green...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) proposes to adopt the eco-friendly bio-toilets developed by the Defence Research and Development Organization's (DRDO) to check...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation move to raze old bldgs irks...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Heritage lovers and senior residents of the city are up in arms against the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's (GVMC) knee-jerk proposal to pull down old buildings in the...
View ArticlePost merger, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation to revise...
VISAKHAPATNAM: With the merger of Bheemili, Anakapalle and 10 gram panchayats with Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) finally getting the green light, the civic body's city development...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation to rake in its due moolah from...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Struggling to cash in on the advertisement boom on its own, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is planning to rope in a private agency to boost its revenue from...
View ArticleVisakhapatnam hospitals give municipal corporation a headache
VISAKHAPATNAM: Getting city hospitals to toe the line on parking rules is proving to be a tough task for Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC). While civic officials are planning a...
View ArticleNow, GVMC focuses on cellar parking
After removing encroachments in cellars and making them available for parking, the GVMC began enforcing parking regulations in the city. Earlier, the GVMC has announced that after clearing the cellars...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation moots metro rail project for...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) commissioner MV...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant slug...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) and Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) look all set to lock horns once again over taxes with the civic body now gearing up to slap...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's mega projects find no takers
VISAKHAPATNAM: In yet another instance of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC)'s grandiose plans coming to naught, 14 months after the civic body mooted three mega multi-use commercial...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation’s ‘dustbin...
VISAKHAPATNAM: In yet another instance of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) falling short of its tall promises, the civic body has once again changed its mind on the much-awaited...
View ArticleDesalination project to start soon: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The proposed ground works for the desalination project would be started soon with the team of officials that is on a study tour to Singapore and Dubai expected to submit a detailed...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation to give Poorna Market a facelift
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has decided to give a facelift to the Sardar Vallabhai Patel Market, popularly known as Poorna Market, at an estimated cost of Rs...
View ArticleMounting property tax dues cripple Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) may have drawn up grandiose plans to develop the city but it has to first tackle the major hurdle of mounting debts caused mainly...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation moots roping in corporate...
VISAKHAPATNAM: In a unique move aimed at raising the academic bar and plugging the shortage of teaching staff, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has mooted a proposal to invite...
View ArticleNo space for vehicles in cellars
VISAKHAPATNAM: Unauthorized construction in cellars of commercial buildings is going on unabated, crowding areas and leading to parking problems on busy roads in the city. Official sources said out of...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation not to pull down heritage...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Public outrage has forced the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) to do a volte face on the proposal to pull down old buildings in the city, including heritage...
View ArticleVisakhapatnam wedding halls sitting on tinderbox
VISAKHAPATNAM: They are happy places where people come together to celebrate occasions like weddings but the over 90 kalyanamandapams spread across the port city are nothing but a tragedy waiting to...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation chalks out tall task for water...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The monsoon season is in full swing, yet the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is still struggling to put in place a proper water harvesting plan for the city. Caught...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation delays issuing death, birth...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's plans to restart its online system for issuing birth and death certificates have failed to take off despite repeated assurances of its...
View ArticleResidential areas turning into danger zones? Hospitals In Housing Pockets...
VISHAKHAPATNAM: Barely a decade ago, Krishnanagar and the colonies located on Gokhale Road and surrounding areas such as Zilla Parishad Junction and Maharanipeta were considered to be one of the...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation building a firetrap
VISAKHAPATNAM: Don't practice what you preach seems to be the mantra of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), going by the double-standards that the civic body has adopted when it...
View ArticleUnauthorised ad hoardings make a dent in Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Advertisement hoardings may be helping brands and companies rake in the moolah, but for Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) they are proving to be a major headache. Most...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation junction turns hub of protests
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation office turned into a hub of Samaikhyandhra protests as teachers, students, government employees and political parties staged massive...
View ArticleGVMC winks at cellar encroachments in own buildings
VISAKHAPATNAM: In its enthusiasm to crack the whip on commercial buildings illegally using cellar space for purposes other than parking, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) seems to...
View ArticleLand sharks on an encroachment spree
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Samaikyandhra stir seems to have come as a golden opportunity for land grabbers to spread their tentacles as several employees of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation...
View ArticleSamaikya protests ripple effect sends Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The ongoing Samaikyandhra stir has blown a huge hole in Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's (GVMC) coffers, with revenue collections dipping alarmingly for the month of...
View ArticleState committee okays Rs 654 cr for Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) commissioner MV Satyanarayana said that the state steering...
View ArticleTaxpayers demand better services from Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Taxpayers in the city are unwilling to see their hard-earned money go down the drain, literally. The Visakha Tax Payers Association (VTPA) has demanded that the Greater Visakhapatnam...
View ArticleStir bores Rs 70 crore hole in Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Samaikyandhra strike which went on for more than two months has burnt a massive Rs 70 crore hole in the pockets of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC). With most...
View ArticleStir blows Rs 70 crore hole in Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Samaikyandhra strike which went on for more than two months has burnt a massive Rs 70 crore hole in the pockets of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC). With most...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation to conduct special drives from...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) will hold special drives from October 21 to November 15 to recover property tax dues of nearly Rs 50 crore that it could not...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's 24x7 water supply project to...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The proposed 24x7 drinking water supply project for the residential areas in the North-West part of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) limits is all set to become a...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation lays out a red carpet for...
VISAKHAPATNAM: If the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) sets its mind on something, it leaves no stone unturned to achieve it. This was amply proved recently when the civic body...
View ArticleIllegal cremations in vacant plot haunt residents
VISAKHAPATNAM: Residents of Venkatadri Nagar Layout, which falls under the 72nd ward of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), are haunted by a peculiar problem - an unauthorized...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's 2014-15 budget at Rs 1936.63...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has got an approval of Rs 1936.63 crore as the...
View Article‘Busy roads to be revamped to ease traffic hiccups’
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), in association with the city traffic police, has mooted proposals to revamp and beautify busy roads and junctions in view of the...
View ArticleBikers occupy Visakhapatnam footpaths
Visakhapatnam: The footpaths at the busiest commercials centres like Dwarakanagar, Jagadamba Junction, Daba Gardens, Gajuwaka, Ramnagar and a few other areas in the city were examples of how public...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation records poor tax collection
VISAKHAPATNAM: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) commissioner MV Satyanarayana on Tuesday pulled up officers for failing to reach the tax collection targets for financial year...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's new website still has outdated...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Jolted into action, perhaps by a TOI report earlier this year highlighting the bloomers galore on its official website, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) had...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation staff, police fail to stop...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Busy playing the blame game, police and the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) officials have failed to stop the illegal cremations taking place in Venkatadri Nagar...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's hi-tech water metering system...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation's (GVMC) efforts to tackle revenue losses arising out of water supply to bulk consumers, most of whom are giant industrial units and...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation to begin work on 24x7 water...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is all set to take up the 24x7 drinking water supply project in two phases at an estimated cost of Rs 383 crore. The project aims...
View ArticleBouncing cheques add to Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation’s tax...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Even as the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is facing an uphill task getting tax payers to cough up taxes, rampant cheque-bounce cases are becoming an added headache...
View ArticleWill high court order on civic polls spell trouble for Greater Visakhapatnam...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Even though the AP High Court has ordered the state government to conduct elections at all the urban civic bodies across the state within the next four weeks, Greater Visakhapatnam...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation to speed up property tax...
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has a daunting task ahead. The civic body has just 50 days left to collect more than 50 % of property tax for the current...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation to rope in legal eagle to crack...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Desperate times call for desperate measures. Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), which is already lagging way behind in tax collections this fiscal thanks to a spate of...
View ArticleGreater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation initiates action in cheque...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) commissioner M V Satyanarayana on Tuesday visited the accounts department of the civic body and pulled up officials for failing to...
View ArticleIndira Priyadarshini Municipal Stadium to be ready by summer vacation
VISAKHAPATNAM: The much awaited Indira Priyadarshini Municipal Stadium (IPMS) in the Old City is all set to reopen its doors for the public in the ensuing summer, GVMC commissioner MV Satyanarayana...
View ArticleBeware of middlemen in JNNURM scheme, Greater Visakhapatnam civic body chief...
VISAKHAPATNAM: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) commissioner MV Satyanarayana has urged people not to fall in the trap of fraudsters and middlemen enticing people...
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