Corporators discuss summer preparedness in VMC council meeting

Corporators discussed summer preparedness, including availability of drinking water, and measures to prevent water crisis in the city, in the council meeting of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) on Saturday.

Earlier, the TDP and YSRCP corporators engaged in a war of words over the progress of works taken up in schools under the Nadu-Nedu programme. While the YSRCP corporators pointed out that classrooms were redesigned and schools renovated during the YSRCP tenure, the TDP corporators alleged that the programme was riddled with scams. They also warred over naming of roads.

TDP Floor leader N. Balaswamy proposed that all measures required to address the mosquito menace be taken up immediately and that the corporation take steps to ensure clean and safe drinking water to residents.

The corporators pointed out that some residents continue to receive discoloured water, and that the problem should be addressed immediately. Other corporators, too, highlighted the mosquito menace, asking the VMC officials to improve fogging and other anti-mosquito activities.

CPI (M) Floor leader B. Satya Babu reminded that after the council rejected the proposal for development of roads in PPP model on October 8, 2025, the government released a memo, dated December 13, 2025, which issued directions that 19 roads in the city be taken up in PPP model for 10 years. He proposed that the memo be rejected, and the proposal was rejected by the council.

He also sought information on the amount expended on three study tours conducted for corporators between 2021 and 2025. The officials told him that more than ₹1.4 crore was spent on the three tours.

The corporators also pointed out poor sanitation services in the city, and that garbage collection was not being done on a day-to-day basis.

Most of the 169 proposals were approved in the council meeting.