Thursday 29 August 2013


New greater visakha is also named  as Vizag, and the second largest City in AndhraPradesh . It is also the third largest sea port City on  east coast of  India. Vizag is a port city situated in the southern side of the India and is in the middle of Chennai and Calcutta. Visakha has only the Natural Harbour in India. The Dolphin hill in the sea at visakha,with its long narrow area that goes out in to the sea will serve as natural protector to the city from natural calamities.
Visakhapatnam is head quarters  to Visakha District and  to the Eastern Naval command. 

 Visakhapatnam was earlier  municipality set up as volutary municipality in the year 1858.
 Later UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF government Acts passed from time to time it became municipality.
The visakha municipality has grown up steadily and crossed the municipal limits by incorporating some new areas.
The population growth rate increased due to many ways of economic sources.


New greater  visakha
Finally the visakha municipality has been converted in to VISAKHA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION in the year 1979.
with the merger of Gajuwaka municipality and Narsipatnam municipality along with 32 villages in to visakha municipal corporation, the visakha municipal corporation has become Greater visakha municipal corporation (GVMC) which came in to existance in the year 2005.
The Government of Andhra pradesh has passed orders for merging adjacent municipalities namely Bheemily municipality 

and Anakaplli municipality and 10 gram panchayats with the New Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation in the year 2013.
 The New greater visakha municipal corporation HAS MAJOR INDUSTRIAL BASE having Rashtreeya Ispath Nigam LTD(Rinl), 
popularly known asVisakha steel plant,Bharat heavy plates and vessels and Hindusthan Zinc.

 Bavikonda  is one of the important  and historic places in Visakhapatnam which is famous from Buddhist heritage . the Telugu meaning  of Bavikonda is " A HILL OF WELLS" .  Railway line  Started on October 1894 in  Vizag which is administered by East coast railways of Indian Railways .
                                    
                       
                                             Kailasagiri is one of the most  Beautiful Spot in Vizag from here there is a great View of Bay of bengal. .In India there is one only submarine Museum Named as KURSURA .Rushikonda  is also one of the visiting place from here we got wonderful view of sea , sand and hills located around the city.
          Araku Valley is surrounded by Galikonda, Raktakonda, Sunkarimetta and Chitamogond Hills is just 114 km from Visakha patnam.