Proposal to merge 64 gram panchayats with GVMC sparks debate among villagers
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Proposal to merge 64 gram panchayats with GVMC sparks debate among villagers

The Hindu  

The latest proposal to merge all 64 gram panchayats of Bhimili, Anandapuram and Padmanabham mandals of Visakhapatnam district with the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation has sparked a debate among the people of those mandals, which are located on either side of National Highway-16, and are less than 25 km away from the under-construction Bhogapuram International Airport. Padmanabham MPP Kantubothu Rambabu of the YSRCP said that the proposal was brought for discussion by Bheenunipatnam MLA Ganta Srinivasa Rao with his party cadre. There are about 26,500 NREGA workers in the three mandals, including 4,500 in Bheemunipatnam.” Meanwhile, TDP State organising secretary Korada Rajababu said that the State government treasury does not have funds to develop the villages through its Panchayati Raj Department, which is why the merger will be a good option. Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Ganta Srinivasa Rao said that the State government’s policy is to merge nearby villages into urban bodies.

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Palayampatti residents against merger with Aruppukottai municipality
1 month, 1 week ago

Palayampatti residents against merger with Aruppukottai municipality

The Hindu  

ARUPPUKOTTAI Residents of Palayampatti have put up placards outside their houses expressing their opposition to the State government’s proposal to merge parts of the rural local body with the adjacent Aruppukottai municipality. The placards, put up by Palayampatti Panchayat Protection People’s Movement, appealed to the State government to give up its plan to merge parts of Palayampatti panchayat with Aruppukottai …

MLA Sengottaiyan opposes merging of village panchayats with municipalities
1 month, 2 weeks ago

MLA Sengottaiyan opposes merging of village panchayats with municipalities

The Hindu  

Gobichettipalayam MLA and former AIADMK Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan submitted a petition to Collector Raja Gopal Sunkara opposing the move to merge various village panchayats with municipalities at the Collectorate on Monday. The petition stated that the State government had proposed the merger of several village panchayats: Pariyur, P. Vellalapalayam, Kullampalayam, and Modachur with Gobichettipalayam Municipality; Akkaraikodiveri Panchayat with Periyakodiveri Town …

Palayampatti panchayat residents oppose merger with Aruppukottai Municipality
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Palayampatti panchayat residents oppose merger with Aruppukottai Municipality

The Hindu  

Residents of Palayampatti panchayat under Aruppukottai union on Monday thronged the Collectorate in large numbers to hand over hundreds of petitions opposing the State Government’s proposal to merge part of their panchayat with nearby Aruppukottai Town municipality. The villagers have been protesting against the proposal claiming that the economically weaker sections under the rural local body would lose their jobs …

Residents oppose merger of Samusigapuram panchayat with Rajapalayam municipality
2 months ago

Residents oppose merger of Samusigapuram panchayat with Rajapalayam municipality

The Hindu  

VIRUDHUNAGAR Residents of Samusigapuram village panchayat staged a wait-in protest on the panchayat office premises on Tuesday seeking to scrap the proposal to merge the rural local body with Rajapalayam municipality. The protest was led by Tamil Nadu Nesavalargal Munnetra Kazhagam president A. Ganesan and former panchayat president Rajagopal. CPI cadre M. Somasundaram said that the lot of residents of …

MGNREGS workers in Erode oppose merger of village panchayats with town panchayats and municipalities
2 months, 2 weeks ago

MGNREGS workers in Erode oppose merger of village panchayats with town panchayats and municipalities

The Hindu  

Opposing the merger of village panchayats with town panchayats and municipalities, as it would allegedly affect the families dependent on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, over 500 women submitted a petition to the Sub-Collector in Gobichettipalayam on Friday. Addressing the workers, Mr. Sundaram said the State government had recently issued a notification to merge 10 village panchayats with …

Do not merge Pattinayak Thanda with Ameenabad: BRS
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Do not merge Pattinayak Thanda with Ameenabad: BRS

Deccan Chronicle  

WARANGAL: Former BRS MLA Peddi Sudharshan Reddy on Tuesday condemned the proposal to merge Pattinayak Thanda gram panchayat with Ameenabad, describing it as an attack on the dignity and self-respect of tribal people. A heated argument took place between villagers of the Pattinayak Thanda and the police when Congress leaders conducted a meeting without consulting outsiders to merge Thanda with …

Village panchayats will not merge with urban local bodies: Tamil Nadu minister
1 year, 2 months ago

Village panchayats will not merge with urban local bodies: Tamil Nadu minister

New Indian Express  

As per a government press release, 20 representatives of village panchayats met with Thangaraj in the presence of Collector P N Sridhar and urged the minister to give up the proposed merger of village panchayats with urban local bodies. "Kanniyakumari is a district with the least number of village panchayats, after Chennai and Nilgiris, in the state that includes 12,525 …

T.N. begins ‘exploratory process’ for potential merger of village panchayats with urban local bodies
1 year, 2 months ago

T.N. begins ‘exploratory process’ for potential merger of village panchayats with urban local bodies

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu government is undertaking an “exploratory process” to ascertain the possibility of merging village panchayats with nearby urban local bodies. It is against this backdrop that officials of two departments in charge of rural and urban local bodies - Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, and Municipal Administration and Water Supply - have begun the exercise of gathering inputs …

Vizag corporation passes resolution seeking three capitals
2 years, 4 months ago

Vizag corporation passes resolution seeking three capitals

Deccan Chronicle  

VISAKHAPATNAM: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, whose council met here on Friday, passed a resolution welcoming decentralisation of Andhra Pradesh with three capitals, with Vizag being the executive capital. YSRC corporators attending the council meeting first raised the issue of making Visakhapatnam the executive capital, underlining that it is part of Chief Minister Y.S. CPI and CPM members asked the mayor …

Capital shift to Vizag on cards, says Botsa Satyanarayana
4 years ago

Capital shift to Vizag on cards, says Botsa Satyanarayana

Deccan Chronicle  

RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM: Municipal administration minister Botsa Satyanarayana has said that the executive capital would be shifted to Visakhapatnam anytime as legal hurdles are set to be sorted out soon. He said that Telugu Desam is trying to create hurdles and halt development of the state and former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu wanted Amaravati as the capital in order to promote …

The villager fears a costly future here
11 years, 5 months ago

The villager fears a costly future here

The Hindu  

Family members of farmers and old-timers who had nursed ambitions to become ward members for Nagaram Gram Panchayat were waiting expectantly for Friday, September 6. It is clear that the decision to merge Nagaram was influenced by the present political developments,” says Bhongir Narasimha Rao, a ward member and a businessman at Nagaram. Located just 4 km from ECIL Crossroads, …

GHMC nets more villages
11 years, 6 months ago

GHMC nets more villages

The Hindu  

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation jurisdiction will increase further with the inclusion of 15 erstwhile gram panchayats of Ranga Reddy district into GHMC with immediate effect. Government order The Municipal Administration and Urban Development issued the GO 407 here on Saturday bringing the following 15 gram panchayats which are contiguous within the limits of GHMC: Satamrai, Kotwalguda, Narsingi, Vattinagulapalli, Neknamur, …

GHMC council rejects merger of panchayats
11 years, 8 months ago

GHMC council rejects merger of panchayats

The Hindu  

The council of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution rejecting the government’s proposal on merger of 15 nearby gram panchayats with it. MIM floor leader Mohammad Nazeeruddin said, “These gram panchayats are primarily agriculture lands and supply fresh vegetables and pulses to the city. There was severe shortage of funds, manpower and required paraphernalia for the …

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