Visakhapatnam is one of the earliest municipalities along with Nellore, Kurnool, vizianagaram and Bhimilipatnam. Voluntary Municipal Association was set up in Visakhapatnam in the year 1858 under All India Act. XXVI of 1850. With the advent of Town Improvement Act of Madras (Act. 10 of 1865). Substantial changes were occurred and the Voluntary Municipal Association had become a Municipality having a commission consisting of Officials and nominated mercantile community. Subsequently vide Madras District Municipalities Act 1884 the Commission was designated as Council.
The Constitutionals and Administrative set up of the Vizag Municipality set forth by the Madras District Municipalities Act.1920 and the Amendment Act 1933 remained unchanged without any significant changes until 1965 when the Andhra Pradesh Legislature passed the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act 1965.
Visakhapatnam is one of the earliest municipalities in AP and was converted into a Municipal Corporation in 1979. Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation with an extent of 111.60 sq. k.m. is serving the estimated population of 12 lakhs with a total number of 4,534 officials and staff.
GVMC enetered into an agreement with Center for Good Governance (CGG) and eGovernments Foundation to implement Fund based Double entry accrual Financial accounting system based on National Municipal Accounting Manual. Under the terms of the engagement, CGG was responsible for providing the functional domain experts, perform customization analysis, user acceptance testing and training and capacity building.
Governments Foundation was responsible for providing the core product, customization and help CGG in performing gap analysis and training & capacity building.
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