Other dept officials as civic chiefs opposed

Eluru: The Andhra Pradesh Municipal Commissioners’ Association general body meeting has condemned the appointment of other
government officials as Municipal Commissioners in various municipalities in the State. The meeting has reiterated that the association
will take up agitation against the Commissioners’ appointment against the Municipal Service rules.

The Association State General body meeting was held at Gokul Marriage Hall here on Saturday. Eluru Municipal Commissioner and
chairman of the Association Yarra Sai Srikanth presided over the meeting.

Municipal Commissioners, officials of Directorate of Municipal Administration, various municipal workers’ union leaders participated in the
meeting.

The association demanded the government to take up the promotions of Commissioners transparently in the State. The meeting
demanded the government to release seniority list before six months of the promotion. The meeting requested the government to
implement the fundamental rules for the municipal employees. The meeting called upon the employees and Commissioners to work
according to the aims and aspirations of the people and government by enhancing the work skills.

The meeting regretted that the government was appointing other government employees as Commissioners and employees in
municipalities. As a result of this, the Commissioners were left with no job guarantee, it has observed. It alleged that the other
government employees who were deputed as Commissioners had no knowledge of the Municipal Acts and their wrong deeds had to be
settled by the in-service Commissioners. The meeting called upon the Commissioners and employees of municipalities in the State to
take up united agitation for their cause.

Additional Director of DMA K Sivaparvathi, GVMC Additional Commissioner GVVS Murthy, Visakhapatnam Municipal Regional Director P
Asha Jyothi, Tadipatri Municipal Commissioner S Sivarama Krishna, Rajamahendravaram Corporation Additional Commissioner G
Srinivasa Rao, AP Municipal Directorate Officer PVVS Murthy and others spoke on the occasion.

The meeting elected new executive body to the association on the occasion.

GVVSN Murthy, Additional Commissioner, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation and Y Sai Sreekanth, Commissioner, Eluru
Municipal Corporation are elected as Honorary Presidents. K Siva Parvathi, Additional Director, Directorate of Municipal Administration
(Guntur) as President, S Siva Rama Krishna, Tadipatri Municipal Commissioner as General Secretary, M Siva Satya Somaraju, Joint
Director of DMA (Guntur) as Treasurer, C Obulesu (Ananthapuram), PVVSN Murthy (PMU Head, APMDP) as Vice-presidents, G Asha
Jyothi, Regional Director of Municipal Administration, Visakhapatnam, T Sakala Reddy, Regional Director, Rajahmahendravaram, C
Anuradha, Regional Director Guntur, Ch Vijaya Lakshmi, Regional Director, Anantapuram are elected as ex-officio members.

Ch V V S Bapiraju , Secretary, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, V Ravindra, Deputy Commissioner, GVMC, Ch Naga
Narasimha Rao (Bhimavaram), Ch Srirama Sarma (Srikalahasti), K Shakuntala (Tenali), A V Ramani (Deputy Commissioner, Vijayawada
Municipal Corporation) are elected as organising secretaries, G Sanyasi Rao (DC, Kakinada), K Sairam (Palacole), M Yesudas (DC,
Guntur), D Chittibabu (Assitant Director (DMA, Guntur) S Srinivasa Rao (Yalamanchili) are elected as Joint Secretaries.

BR Seshadri, MVD Phani Ram, H Shankar Rao, NV Nageswara Ra, M Jaswantha Rao, D Srinivas, A Venkateswara Rao, KL Varma and P
Bhavani Prasad elected as executive members.