Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority-VMRDA

ORGANIZATION PROFILE (VMRDA)

The Government of Andhra Pradesh has notified Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA), Visakhaptnam duly dissolving the Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA) vide G.O.Ms.No.302, MA&UD (M) Department dated 05-09-2018, appointing Sri.P.Basant Kumar, IAS as the First Metropolitan Commissioner for Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA), Visakhaptnam.

S.No	Name	Designation
1	Dr. A Mallikarjuna, I.A.S.,(FAC)	Metropolitan Commissioner, VMRDA Visakhapatnam

Successive List of Metropolitan Commissioners : VMRDA

S.No	Name	Period
S.No	Name	From	To
1	Sri.P.Basanth Kumar, I.A.S.,	05-09-2018	01-07-2019
2	Smt G. Srijana, I.A.S.,(FAC)	02-07-2019	23-07-2019
3	Sri.P.Koteswara Rao, I.A.S.,	24-07-2019	29-07-2021
4	Sri.K Venkata Ramana Reddy, I.A.S.,	30-07-2021	04-04-2022
5	Dr. A Mallikarjuna, I.A.S.,(FAC)	04-04-2022	---

Heads of Wings

Name	Designation	Contact No.
Smt D Keerthi	SECRETARY	63099 11119
Sri.V Bhavani Sankar	CHIEF ENGINEER	---------
Sri K Sanjay Ratna Kumar	CHIEF URBAN PLANNER	98660 76913
Sri Y Hari Prasad	CHIEF ACCOUNTS OFFICER	98660 76911
Sri Ch. Santhi Swaroop	DIVISIONAL FOREST OFFICER	94410 36300
Sri D Laxma Reddy	ESTATE OFFICER	94913 36822

History of Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA)

(i) The VUDA Board

The management of VUDA is vested with a nominated Board headed by a Chairman, constituted by the State Government from time to time under the Andhra Pradesh Urban Areas Development Act, 1975.

Chairman and Members to Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority, Visakhapatnam (G.O.Ms.No.373,of MA & UD Dept, Dated:-27.08.2011)

Principal Secretary,MA & UD Department, GoAP	-	Chairman
Secretary to Govt, Finance Department(W & P)	-	Member
Member Secretary, Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Bord	-	Ex-officio Member
Managing Director, Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation	-	Ex-officio Member
Commissioner & Managing Director A.P. Eastern Power Distribution Corporation Ltd	-	Ex-officio Member
District Collector, Visakhapatnam	-	Ex-officio Member
District Collector, Srikakulam	-	Ex-officio Member
District Collector, Vizianagaram	-	Ex-officio Member
District Collector, East Godavari	-	Ex-officio Member
Commissioner, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation	-	Member
Director of Town & Country Planning	-	Member
Vice Chairman, Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority	-	Member - Convener

(ii) Organization:
The Authority has the following wings viz
Administration
Engineering
Planning
Accounts
Urban Forestry
Estate Management

The Chief Executive of the organisation is the Vice Chairman who is a Senior Officer from Indian Administrative Services (IAS) assisted by various officers in specialised fields under Urban Planning and Development like Urban Planning, Traffic & Transportation, Architecture, Project Formulation and other related fields like Land Acquisition, Urban Forestry, Estate Management, Accounts & Finance and Administration.

Successive List of Chairmen of VUDA

S.No	Name	Period
S.No	Name	From	To
1	Sri Dronam raju Satyanarayana	1978	1981
2	Sri S.R.A.S. Appala Naidu	1982	1983
3	Sri P.Appala Narasimham	1984	1984
4	Sri D.V.Subba Rao, B.Sc., B.L.,	1985	1987
5	Sri P.K.Agarwal, I.A.S.(SO) Dist. Collector	1987	1987
6	Dr. M.V.V.S.Murthi, B.A., B.L.,	1987	1989
7	Sri Y. Maria Das	1990	1991
8	Sri T. Suryanarayana Reddy	1992	1994
9	Sri K. Gangi Reddy	1995	1995
10	Sri K. Gangi Reddy,	1997	2000
11	Sri J.S.V. Prasad, I.A.S (SO) Dist. Collector	2000	2001
12	Dr. S. A. Rahman	2001	2004
13	Sri D.Sreenivasulu, I.A.S (SO)	2004	2004
14	Sri Praveen Prakash, IAS Dist.Collector	20-12-2004	10-02-2005
15	Sri P.S.N.Raju (Ravi)	11-02-2005	26-01-2008
16	Sri Sanjay Kumar I.A.S District Collector	26-01-2008	17-06-2009
17	Sri J. Syamala Rao I.A.S, District Collector VSP.	17-06-2009	14-06-2011
18	Sri Lav Agarwal I.A.S, District Collector VSP.	15-06-2011	27-08-2011
19	Sri B.Sam Bob I.A.S	28-08-2011	2-7-2013
20	Dr.S.K Joshi I.A.S	03-07-2013	03-06-2014
21	Dr.P. Madhusudhana Rao, I/C I.F.S	04-06-2014	05-06-2014
22	Dr D. Sambasiva Rao I.A.S	05-06-2014	13-12-2014 A.N
23	Sri.A.Giridhar I.A.S	14-12-2014 A.N	30-07-2015
24	Sri.R.Karikal Valaven, I.A.S	10-08-2015 A.N	----

Successive List of Vice-Chairmen

S.No	Name	Period
S.No	Name	From	To
1	Sri T.Vedantam, I.A.S.,	17-06-1978	07-01-1979
2	Sri C. Arjuna Rao, I.A.S. (FAC)	08-01-1979	02-05-1979
3	Sri C.S.Rao, I.A.S.,	03-05-1979	11-09-1980
4	--	11-09-1980	14-10-1980
4	Sri S.V. Prasad, I.A.S. (FAC)	14-10-1980	06-05-1981
5	Sri J.Rambabau, I.A.S.,	06-05-1981	31-03-1982
6	Sri S.V.Prasad, I.A.S., Person-In-Charge	01-04-1983	09-04-1983
7	Sri Paul Bhuyan, I.A.S., Person-In-Charge/Vice Chairman	10-04-1983	08-10-1985
8	Dr.N.Jaya Prakashnarayana, I.A.S. (FAC)	19-08-1985	08-10-1985
9	Dr. J.C.Mohanthy, I.A.S.,	09-10-1985	22-09-1986
10	Sri S.Chellappa, I.A.S.,	09-10-1985	22-09-1986
11	Sri K.Raju, I.A.S.,	20-11-1986	28-12-1986
12	Sri S.Chellappa, I.A.S.,	29-12-1986	24-04-1987
13	Sri K. Raju, I.A.S., (FAC)	24-04-1987	05-06-1987
14	Sri M.Krishna Swamy , M.A., H.D.C.,	06-06-1987	05-10-1988
15	Sri S.P. Singh, I.A.S., (FAC)	06-10-1988	11-01-1989
16	Sri M.Sambasiva Rao, I.A.S., (FAC)	12-01-1989	17-01-1989
17	Sri Binoy Kumar, I.A.S.,	18-01-1989	18-07-1990
18	Sri C.B.S. Venkataramana, I.A.S.,	19-07-1990	18-12-1992
19	Sri A.K.Parida, I.A.S., (FAC)	19-12-1992	30-12-1992
20	Sri Rajendra Mohan Gonela, I.A.S.,	31-12-1992	28-08-1993
21	Sri A.K.Parida, I.A.S., (FAC)	29-08-1993	23-11-1993
22	Sri D. China Rosaiah, I.A.S.,	24-11-1993	18-04-1994
23	Sri K.V.Satyanarayana, I.A.S.,	18-04-1994	25-04-1994
24	Sri R.Subrahmanyam, I.A.S.,	26-05-1994	10-01-1995
25	Sri K.V.Satyanarayana, I.A.S.,	11-01-1995	23-11-1995
26	Sri K.Praveen Kumar, I.A.S.,	23-11-1995	04-02-1999
27	Sri A.Vidya Sagar, I.A.S., (FAC)	04-02-1999	05-03-1999
28	Sri S.G.K.Kishore, I.A.S.,	06-03-1999	14-03-2003
29	Sri D.Sreenivasulu, I.A.S.,	14-03-2003	28-11-2004
30	Sri D.Varaprasad, I.A.S.,	29-11-2004	17-05-2005
31	Sri G.Venkatram Reddy, I.A.S	18-05-2005	26-03-2008
32	Sri V.N. Vishnu, IAS	26-03-2008	02-01-2010
33	Sri B. Sridhar, IAS	03-01-2010	20-04-2011
34	Sri Kona Sasidhar, IAS	21-04-2011	15-01-2013
35	Dr. N. Yuva Raj, IAS	16-01-2013	14-07-2014
36	Sri.M.V.Satyanarayana, IAS	14-07-2014	19-09-2014
37	Sri.M.V.Seshagiri Babu, IAS	19-09-2014	16-11-2014
38	Dr.G.C.Kishore Kumar, Ph.D	17-11-2014	19-11-2014
39	Sri.M.V.Seshagiri Babu, IAS	20-11-2014	07-01-2015
40	Dr.T.Babu Rao Naidu, IAS	07-01-2015	20-04-2017
41	Sri M.Hari Narayanan, IAS., (FAC)	20-04-2017	04-05-2017
42	Sri K.Ramesh (I/C)	04-05-2017	08-05-2017
43	Sri P.Basanth Kumar, IAS	08-05-2017	04-09-2018