Another IT firm in Chittoor: Kriya IT Private Limited

Dear friends,
Accept my apologies for the delay in updates from mana chittoor. Starting 2012 such delays will be completely eliminated by restructuring Mana Chittoor team. There had been lot happening in and around chittoor, and i will get them to you one by one.

A new IT firm being established in CTR is hiring for some posts. Check the following letter:

Mr Srinivasulu K, a chittorean writes this:


డియర్ Chittooran `s,

Greetings from Sreenivasulu.k,Bangalore,India.

Recently while traveling from Chennai to Bangalore via Chittoor, I have noticed there is Inauguration of software park at NH4, I felt very happy, but I could not stop my car to watch the complete Inauguration ceremony , due to running behind my Business schedule.

But I had long dream to do something to my Home town “మన చిత్తూరు”

Recently I came across some information at net some one started software IT Service Organization at "మన చిత్తూరు పట్టణం లో" I immediately called the mobile no which has been mentioned in that AD.


I had telecon with Mr.chetan – Founder of Kriya IT Pvt. Ltd, he started this IT service Company with aim of to help and create employment opportunities to "మన చిత్తూరు మరియు చిత్తూరు జిల్లా ప్రజల కోసం”. During my conversation his Organization has 60+ employees and planning to scale it up to 100+ by end of March 2012 and hence he is looking for Project Manager and HR Manager who can associate with his organization and take the organization to next level.

I felt this is the right opportunity to me to help మన చిత్తూరు మరియు చిత్తూరు జిల్లా ప్రజలు and encourage Mr. Chetan.
I very pleased to Introduce Mr.Chatan and his Organization Kriya IT Pvt. Ltd to all of you.

Mr.Chetan has completed his MS in US and returned to India worked as software professional with GE and Founded /started Kriya IT Pvt. Ltd at Chittoor (A.P) and his IT services company partnering with a company called NextWealth based out of Bangalore. Please go to www.nextwealth.in and click on partners.


Now his organization successfully providing IT services (Java based Application) in Photobook design to clients in Europe and USA.
Now Mr. Chetan looking for reference for Project Manager and HR Manager who has experience in respective fields and planing to come back to “మన చిత్తూరు” are preferred.

I request you to refer any of your colleagues or friends who are interested in above JOB opportunity

You can reach Mr.Chetan Mob no 09900178122; Email : chetan.kriya@gmail.com



ధన్యవాదాలు
మీ `sreeni
 
 
 
Lets Thank Chetan for this info & refer the openings to our friends .
 
 
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CHITTOOR RAILWAY STATION -A Transformation

(Photo Courtesy: Mr Sajjad Syed , Addittional Inputs from: Deepak & Praveen KS)

Here is the transformation of Chittoor Railway Station seen through pictures :

Chittoor has been an important railway station in madras presidency built and maintained by The Great South Indian Railway Company headquartered in Madras.

After independence the railway line and station were transferred to Indian railways. Due to geopolitical reasons development almost stalled for decades together. Only one express (Meenakshi) and 2-3 pairs of metre gauge passengers used to run in this line.



STATION ENTRANCE



The proposals for gauge conversion started in 1980s and continuously delayed till 2003 when finally it was completed and inagurated on August 22nd




AFTER BROAD GAUGE CONVERSION

 

As this line forms and important connection between North and South and reduces 51 KMS in distance the electrification work immediately started. Tata projects was awarded contract and electrification was finally completed in 2007 and was inagurated by Lalu Prasad Yadav on December 8th. Still the station lacked most of the facilities. The platforms 2/3 which had cover over platforms even during metre gauge period was left bland.




AFTER ELECTRIFICATION

 

Many long distance trains were diverted in this route. As the revenues incresed many fold, The Chittoor station was declared A class Commercial station.In the last 4 years Chittoor railway station has witnessed rapid transformation.

*The Cover over platforms was extended on Platform one, and also provided on  Platforms 2/3.

*The platform lighting was replaced by modern and efficient fluoroscent lights.

*Train information display boards and coach guidance boards are provided throughout the station.

*The jaggery godowns on railway station road were shifted, and new parks were developed on either side.



LALTEST PHOTOGRAPH



Around 40 trains run on this route daily. The proposals for doubling the track has already been submitted to railway board. Yet lot need to be done as only thing we are lacking is political will and support.

CRTA (Chittoor Rail Travellers Association) was formed for this purpose, and is a group of voluntary people from Chittoor, constatntly trying to update railway authorities regarding problems in Chittoor railway station and appealing for improved facilities. Currently we are trying for

1. Fast action for doubling the route.

2. The station building is same since independence. Nothing has improved even with incresed trains and subsequent passengers. The station building and circulating area needs lot of improvement.

3. Several trains including Madurai-Tirupati, Yeswantpur-Howrah, Rameshwaram-Okha via Shirdi, Tata-Yeswantpur donot have stoppage at Chittoor.

4. The reservation counter is very much crowded and is obstructing the passenger movement. It needs to be immediately shifted.

5. The platform edges are damaged and cracked. Anti slip Tiles needs to be immediately provided.





Those interested in joining CRTA, can write to ctrivenkatesh@manachittoor.com or can write their name and email id in comments section

If any of you feel to do something regarding, you can sms any of the above problems to 8121281212.

Once you get a response you can update all of us in comments secttion.)

Friends, if you like the article pls give your feedback in comments section.



Bangalore Train (12543/4) Stoppage at Chittoor Extended

Another credit in the feather of Manachittoor & CRTA.

One anonymous reader brought attention to the fact that stoppage for Yesvantpur-Tirupati train : 12543/12544 stop is being lifted off at Chittoor from 15 october 2011. The Chittoor station name is removed from train stop list on reservation sites too.

This train is the fastest train from Chittoor to Bangalore and just takes 4 hours to reach KR puram with a cost of Just 89 Rs

CRTA (Chittoor Rail Travellers Association) came in to picture and we started numerous petitions and requests to South Central Railway. Finally as per the public demand the railway authorities budged and extended stoppage at Chittoor till June 2012 which we are sure will further continue.

 
Now little more details on this train:

Click on above image for details of timings, and fare. 

ctrivenaktesh@manachittoor.com

Exclusive Interview with PRAVEEN NALLAPOTHULA-The IT Architect of SOFTTOWN in Chittoor

 Our sincere thanks to Mr Praveen Nallapothula for obliging our request and giving this exclusive interview.

# Personal Information briefly to intoduce Mr Praveen to all CTRians

*SoftTown is promoted by Mr. Praveen Nallapothula s/o. Late Sri N. Soundarraja Naidu, a leading labor and industrial law advocate.

*Mr. Praveen is a native of Aragonda Gollapalli which is about 20 Kms from Chittoor. Praveen did his schooling in Chittoor till 12th grade in schools like Chittoor Nursery Convent(1st – 5th Grade), B.Z.High School (6th – 10th Grade) and PCR College (11th and 12th grade).

*Praveen graduated in BE in Computer Science Engineering from Bharath Institute of Science and Technology affiliated to University of Madras in Chennai and went on to complete his Masters in Computer Science from Western Kentucky University – Kentucky, USA.

*Praveen Worked for Motorola ( Cellular Infrastructure Group) for about 9 years and started a company called TeleDNA in 2001 – which deals in providing world class software products for mobile telecom service providers around the world. TeleDNA is based in Bangalore, India and provides employment to about 250 high tech graduates. Praveen was CEO & Managing director for TeleDNA since its inception till May 2011 and was responsible in building the company from zero resources to about 250 resources, raising the required private equity financing and ran it profitably. Under Praveen’s vision TeleDNA has won a prestigious awards by NASSCOM and Ministry of Telecom for being a successful Telecom Product based Indian Company – when most indian companies are service companies.

*Praveen also served as a Board Member in famous Kanipakam Varasidhi Vinayaka Swamy Devasthanam under the guidance of Shri Galla Aruna Kumari – Present Hon Minister for Mines. Praveen is also currently the Chittoor District Chapter Chairman for Young India (YI) which is an affiliated arm for CII.

*Praveen has a lot of passion towards his home town, state and country and wants to be pioneer in making the objectives of SoftTown succeed which are some of challenges that our state and nation is facing today.

*Praveen has always been inspired by his Father Late Shri N. SoundarRaja Naidu a famous and leading labor and industrial lawyer from Chittoor. He always remembers his fathers repeated saying “ No matter what you do and where you stay now, you need to come back and do something good to your parents, home village, town, state and country that has given you the opportunity to become who you are today. Look at Galla Aruna Kumari and Ramchandra Naidu and learn from them….They have left a comfortable life in US and come back ”.

“ My simple goal is to see 2000 families living happily in their own rural villages, breathing green air through direct employment in SoftTown by end of year 2016. And I want these employees not to forget their roots and still help farming to make our nation self sufficient in the food we eat”

#What was the initiative and idea behind Softtown

*Goal of SoftTown is to establish rural IT parks so the rural IT graduates would be able to work in their hometowns only. This will prevent IT workers moving away to nearby cities – thereby leading to economical, social, environmental and agro-industrial imbalance. Every aspect of it will have a huge impact on our nation. Take for example, agro-industrial imbalance. Today most of our villages are empty because most of the farming parents are getting their children a IT degree and once they get a job, they are leaving their village and settling down in nearby cities. And our fore fathers and mothers who become aged can’t do farming. Due to this one day, India as a nation has a risk of not generating its own food grains.

*Countries like Singapore can buy everything because they are a controlled and small country. However, India with a billion population can’t afford to do this. To prevent our nation from this risk, if these IT parks are situated in easily commutable places to villages, I hope that our farmers children will help and work on their existing land during morning and evening hours – by still going to their IT jobs. This IT income can also make them invest in farming. Today just by doing farming, survival has become a issue for farmers due to fluctuations in prices and other environmental issues. My wish is to see younger crowd also in villages when I go to these villages and want them still continue to go for a morning walk to their lands with a neem stick in their mouth – rather than spending a lot of time in Gym’s and walking track parks in cities.

*Like this every aspect I have mentioned above (economical, social, environmental imbalances) will have a huge impact on our nation, if we can establish IT centers in nearby commutable rural areas.

With a brand name of SoftTown, we have started this concept – Software in Towns.

#Why  CHITTOOR was selected

*As I am a native of Chittoor, I wanted to start off this concept in Chittoor. I also feel Chittoor is in midst of two big IT cities, just 3 hrs away from both and will have a great advantage of logistics and proximity to world wide customers.

#Tell us about NGIT

*NGIT will undertake outsourcing IT projects from government and private sectors. NGIT also provide last mile corporate training for new IT graduates. These graduates do not have to go to Hyderabad or Chennai or Bangalore spending a lot of money to get this kind of training – which is very much required to make them employable today.

*NGIT has a state of the art facility with all amenities that a City style IT office provides.

#Tell us about Recruitment & Vacancies

*Training and Recruitment process has already started in the Company.

#Does SOFTTOWN lease office space to other firms interested

*Yes, If anyone also have similar goals and ambitions, we can help them with the infrastructure

#Future plans & Expansion

*The goal of NGIT is to employ 100 IT graduates who has Btech-CS, IT and MCA degrees within 1 year from now i.e by end of Dec 2012, 300 by end of Dec 2013 and about 2000 by end of 2016.

*The current infra structure can accommodate 300 people. Infrastructure expansion will happen from Jan 2013, so we can accommodate more people by then.

#How Do you feel for being pioneer in bringing such huge thing as IT to chittoor

*My parents, my well wishers, my native town, my nation and god has given me the skills I have today. I want to utilize those skills to help people and our nation in need. IT is my skill and Chittoor is my native town..hence IT in Chittoor.

#Thank you sir. Wishing you all success and Glory in your present and future endeavours. 

 **Thankyou venkatesh. I want to appreciate you for spending some time bringing Chittoor into limelite and make it visible to world wide audience. Great job and it is great that you are also spending some time for the sake of Chittoor and our nation

Disclaimer: Mana Chitttoor is only a news and info site. It is not related or associated with Softtown & NGIT

For job enquiries and Other Information, email directly to

careers@ngit.in

contact@ngit.in

World Class Driving Track Coming Up at CHITTOOR

*New RTA office and world class Driving Track are finally ready to be inagurated at chittoor.

* Earlier the RTA and DTC used to run in rented places, Govt has sanctioned 1.5 crores for construction in 2009.

*Land behind New Collectorate in Prasanth nagar area was selected and landmarked. However this land allocatio had run into several legal hurdles and finally cleared last year.

*RTA office was constructed with a budget of one crore and includes offices for DTC and MVIs.

*Diving track is one of the largest in the state and includes testing facilities simulating Highway crossings, Urban Roads, Railway crossings, Traffic signals, Ghat Roads etc.

*Similarly track for heavy vehicles has also been completed.

*CM KKR is likely to inagurate this faclility along with CMC OP services on 27 th of this month

(Photo Courtesy Sakshi)

New Police Complex at Chittoor

                                                                          (News Courtesy Hans India)

*After repeated persuasions, the Government has given a green signal to sanction Rs two crore for the construction of District Police Complex, according to Mr Kanti Rana Tata, Superintendent of Police.

*It may be recalled here that former Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy laid foundation-stone four years ago for Chittoor Police Complex with an outlay of Rs 2.8 crores. It was decided to complete the construction of the complex within two years.

*Initially Rs 80 lakhs was sanctioned and the foundation level of the complex was completed. Due to non-receipt of funds, the construction of the complex has been put on hold for the last two years.


*Mr Kanti Rana Tata who assumed charge five months back could be able to influence the higher ups for the release of the balance budget to Chittoor Police Complex.

*Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, SP admitted that there was shortage of funds to complete the construction of Police Complex within the stipulated period. He exuded confidence that the complex would be completed at the earliest.

Traffic menace in Chittoor:

*Referring to the traffic menace at Chittoor district headquarters town, SP admitted that it was a difficult task to enforce the traffic rules in Chittoor town. He said the roads in Chittoor town were very narrow and encroachments were quite common. He instructed the Traffic Police Inspector to take immediate steps for restoring the defunct traffic signals in Chittoor town.

MANACHITTOOR.COM

Dear friends,

Happy VIJAYA DASAMI

Starting from today manachittoor blog officially changes to www.manachittoor.com


Even the earlier url http://www.hichittoor.blogspot.com/ will continue to work and automatically redirect to new site

After listening to your suggestions, i wanted to change to official domian manachittoor.com but it was already registered. I would like to thank my friend sunil for giving away his domain with out any hesitation.

I would also thank Praveen KS, Chaitu, Sudheer Reddy, Deepak Reddy, Jeevan and many more chittooreans for their encouragement.

Thank you one and all..

Coach Indication boards Installed at Chittoor railway Station

*Atlast finally the efforts of CRTA(chittoor rail travellers asssociation) paid off. Finally after lot of deliberations coach indication boards along with At a glance boards and train information display boards are installed at chittoor railway station on all the three platforms.

*Coach indication boards are digital LED based boards which show the train details and exact position of each coach where its going to stop. So passengers can know their coach position even before train arrives and can avoid last minute running.

*CRTA has repeatedly petitioned Railway authorities since 2008 for this. Pls check the links given at the end of the post to follow the time line.

*Check out the pictures: (With dedicated effort by Praveen KS)

The official inaguration of this Integrated Train Information System is yet to be announced.




Check the links:
http://hichittoor.blogspot.com/2009/05/letter-to-railways.html

http://hichittoor.blogspot.com/2009/05/problems-persist-in-railway-station.html

http://hichittoor.blogspot.com/2010/06/railway-developments-in-chittoor.html

http://hichittoor.blogspot.com/2010/07/railways-and-delays.html

News Updates from Chittoor

                                                                (With Inputs from Praveen & Deepak)


* SOFTTOWN opening on 6 th october at 3 PM. This pioneering effort of  Mr Praveen Nallapothula is being appreciated all over the world.
 Congratulations to him.

* NHAI has atlast started survey work for 4 laning Nangili-Chittoor-Ranipet stretch of NH4. Last week survey work was going on near iruvaram byepass and on enquiry it was revealed that the survey is for 6 laning near chittoor city limits. Hope this materialises soon

* Indianoil the largest public sector petroleum company of india has bought 2 acres near iruvaram to construct staff quarters. This is for the employees of upocoming petroleum terminal near yadamari.

* CM s visit is continuously being postponed for some reasons or other. He is awaited to inagurate CMC OP services, Auditorium near MSR, Tank bund and road aroud kattamanchio lake and iondiramma houses near collectorate.

* Chittoor corporation official gazette is being delayed because of telangana unrest.

* Apartment culture is fast catching up in chittoor too.

* Coach Indication boards are atlast installed in chittoor railway station.

CMC CHITTOOR CAMPUS : OP Services Started

* Out Patient services were started at chittoor cmc campus on 16 th of september.

* Patients coming from AP and especially Chittoor district will be greatly benefited  by this.

* Minor procedures and day care procedures can be carried out in this newly constructed OPD block. Patients with additional needs will be referred to vellore campus.

*The present buildings are only temporary ones. The master plan will be implemented over a period of 10 years which will include teaching institutes, residential complexes and a large hospital.

OP Department

Examination Room

OP Waiting Hall

CM Kiran Kumar Reddys visit is awaited to inagurate these facilities.

(Photo Courtesy: CMC Vellore)

50 Years of PVKN Govt College, Chittoor

                                                                                     (Photo Courtersy: PRAVEEN KS)

*Papudesi Venkata Krishnaiah Naidu Government College, popularly known as PVKN College is the first govt college established under SV University in 1961.

*College was recognised by UGC in 1966.

*College offers UG & PG courses in arts, science and commerce.

* College is located in Greamspet spread over an area of 54.86 acres.

* This college is also the study centre for IGNOU, BRAOU & SVU

* NAAC accredited in 2005 as B++ college. Re accredition inspection was conducted last week . Grading is to be announced.                

                               

Free AD s in CHITTOOR

Hi friends,

Manachittoor blog has very wide reach within 12 states in India and 21
countries around the world. We are starting a new Ads section.

You can forward details of your buisiness, real estate, used
vehicles, houses/shops/office space for sale/ rent, etc etc. You
can also wish your dear ones on their birthdays, anniversaries, functions
etc.

Selected ads only, will be displayed.Ads with clear
details and useful information will be given priority.

Your ads will reach chittoreans world wide.

Remember this is completely FREE OF COST & on non profit basis.
Discretion of blogger is final.

Forward your ads to ctrivenkatesh@gmail.com with correct details.

Software Town coming up @ Chittoor

Hi friends,

Thanks to our chittoorean DEEPAK REDDY, here are the photos of software town coming up in chittoor

NGIT @ Software town. Founded by Praveen nallabothula

Cheaper land costs, Availability of skilled professionals, proximity to two metros Chennai & Bangalore makes our Chittoor a profitable destination to software industries. With digital city (ARDWC) coming up nearby in 500 acres, the bangalore road (NH4) becomes more attractive to IT & ITES offices. Hope Praveen will start the new IT revolution @ Chittoor.


Related to facilities on this Bangalore road, in addition to Dhabas and hotels available, Cafe coffee day has put up shop to refresh the travelers.

Click on following link for a exclusive and detailed interview of Praveen Nallapothula, The MD of SOFTTOWN & NGIT
http://www.manachittoor.com/2011/10/exclusive-interview-with-praveen.html

SVCET retains its TOP position

SVCET chittoor continues to maintain its top position among the technical education institutes in our state, as well as country wide.

In  the latest survey by Competition Success Review ( CSR-GHRDC) SVCET outshines many other well advertised colleges silently proving its mettle.

* SVCET is 6th among engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh

* SVCET ranks 30th among engineering colleges in INDIA

for ranking, the parameters like Physical and Academic infrastructure, Faculty, Research activities, Admissions, Competency building, Placements were considered.

Kudos to students, faculty and management of SVCET.

Railway-Updates from Chittoor

* 1.2 crores have been allotted by SCR for Provision of a Upper Class & General Waiting halls on the first floor of eisting station building. For this part of station building will be demolished.

* Improvement to platform surfaces, Platform shelters, provision of additional benches on platforms 1, 2&3 has been approved and tenders are to be opened on  19-September 2011.

* New weekly train from Mangalore to Howrah via Vijayawada, Vizag and Bubaneshwar will start from september.

*Divisional train enquiry system with touch screen facility will be provided nearer to main entrance to check PNR, Train Schedule, Coach position and Availability status.

*The provision of Coach guidance, Coach positioning LED boards on platforms 1, 2&3 is still continuing. This work is somehow being dragged since 2009. Once this is provided we can exactly know where our coach is going to stop and will be easier for  people with children and luggage.

* Chittoor-Nangili route survey is being done by SWR. If approved and constructed it will become another major route to bangalore, in addition to providing railway connection to palamner and mulbagal.

* The demands of second entrance towards RTC bus station and Second foot over bridge till RTC busstand road is still under consideration only


(With additional inputs from Praveen KS & Kumar PS)

Chittoor NRIs-Uniting All under one Roof

Dear friends,

I have already introduced you to chittoor NRIs an association formed under the aegis of Telugu Association of North America. We have followed their second anniversary celebrations in USA, Where stalwarts from chittoor were felicitated.

Chittoor NRIs have been doing a commendable service to NRIs from our district. They have been supporting the Women, Children, Employees who were in distress in their needful hour.  When Northern Virginia University was busted, the first organisation to come to the rescue of students was Chittoor NRIs. This effort was lauded by parents of other states too, who were really worried till they knew that some one is going to take care.

In order to prevent such untowardly incidents, students from chittoor district can register themselves at www.chittoornris.org and can make sure they are helped when the need arises.

Isn't it heart warming that some one out there are ready to offer help when we are far off from our home town and caring people. Yes, this is the confidence which Chittoor NRIs are striving to create.

Now on occasion of celebrating the 100 years of chittoor district they have been promoting the greatness of district all over the world and are trying to bring out a video journal/documentary on 100 years of chittoor.

Here is the video prepared on 30 years of our history.........

Now i request you all to send your feedback, interesting photos, videos etc etc and trivia from your home towns to chittoornris, so that they can be added to the video planned. Please send your feed back to Mr Sunil      @                                                   pantrasunil@gmail.com.

let us all who are sharing info on this blog forward them to Sunil, so that it will add to information being collected to create a vast database.

Contact Details: www.chittoornris.org
                         pantrasunil@gmail.com
                         Ph: 0012484692349

GOLD- The best investment for Every class

Be it middle class, working class or the Privileged, traditional way of indian family investment always remained gold.

Let it be marriage, birthday or any other function, gold in affordable amounts is stand fast rule in every family. Once the control on gold import was removed in 1990s, the amount of gold purchase per family increased manifold

People use it as an family investment option for generation to come. Believe me, gold has yielded 28-30% value appreciation annually in the past 4 years. Compare it with savings account interest of 3.5% and FD interest 7 to 9%.

Now coming to our Chittoor, we have an advantage of getting gold at chennai prices which is a min 200 Rs less than AP price. Gold buisiness has picked up in chittoor in past 3 years. There are around 70 small and big goldshops in chittoor which do buisiness of 30-40 lakhs on an average day and touch 1 crore during festival and marriage seasons.

A general shift from traditional goldsmiths shops to corporate hallmarked gold showrooms is happening. This started with Chandana ramesh and Joyalukkas. Local showrooms like OVC, are also ramping up to catchup  the trend.

As of today Joyalukkas is the largest showroom with widest collection. Lets see what follows

Joy Alukkas Showroom in CHITTOOR

Popular Jewellery chain JOY ALUKKAS is opening its mega showroom in chittoor on 7th August-Sunday

Kollywood actor Madhavan is opening the showroom located adjacent to Balaji Mobiles on Prakasham High road.

This is the 3rd showroom in AP for Joy Alukkas after Hyderabad and Vijayawada. Its also opening its shop in Rajahmundry & Vishakapatnam Shortly.

Joyalukkas is famous for its branded jewellery, jems and diamonds, and also for its wide variety of gold collections.

CHITTOOR to become 3 CITIES???

Surprised?

Yes Chittoor is going to become not one but 3 cities.
The first one is Chittoor becoming a city by being upgraded to Municipal Corporation, This has been already approved by the government and only the legal aspects are pending.

The second is the Digital World City coming up on Bangalore Highway by amarraja group. This city coming up in 500 acres with a total of 1700 crores over a tome period of 10 years. This project is one of the largest integrated electronic city in India with IT/ITES backoffices and Electronic ancillary units. Eventually this project desires to create 20000 jobs

The third city of chittoor is the Mega Health City planned by Apollo Hospitals group.This health city is coming up in Murukambattu with an investment of 200 crores and has plans to start 200 bed hospital, Nursing and possibly medical college and Manufacturing units for surgical/hospital equipment.

News Snippets From CHITTOOR

* CM Kiran Kumar Reddy to visit chittoor on 22/23. He will be inaugurating the Municipal Auditorium, Fountain@ MSR Circle and also YSR statue in ZP Office. He is expected to make detailed announcement on funds for drinking water and Infrastructure for chittoor city.

* Chittoor city is selected for AP Municipal Development Program APMDP, funded by ADB. It is among the first 12 municipal areas selected under initial phase of this programme with a total cost of 1760 crores.

*KANIPAKAM temple to get gold plated at a cost of 1.5 crores. An industrialist from bangalore has come forward for donating for this cause.

* CMC is planning to open newly constructed OP block and start patient services during CMs visit this month. Informed sources have said that CMC is also preparing the master plan to construct the health university gradually with medical & allied science courses.

*Ford has invited dealership enquiry from chittoor & tirupathi together. After Tata,Maruti and Hyundai this might be the fourth car dealership in chittoor

* Guntakal railway DRM has announced the plans to provide complete cover over on platform 1 and also to construct a separate reservation counter to free the crowded entrance of Chittoor railway station

Latest updates & Developments in CHITTOOR

Courtesy: Sudheer Reddy

* Joy Alukkas is opening a mega Gold Showroom opp to old busstand. Construction work in full swing

* New foot wear showroom called First Step has opened a big A/C  showroom opp to bus stand. As you are aware already Profit has opened 3 floor mega ac footwear showroom last month.

* Diwakar Travels started a Hitech service to Vijayawada which starts at 9:00 PM.  Already another Volvo B9R bus service has been started from Pondicherry to Hyderabad via Chittoor.

*Axis bank opened another ATM in Ponniyamman Koil Street. With this total number of  Axis bank ATMs in city reaches four.

Chittoor Corporation to have 65 Divisions

News Courtesy: Andhra Jyothi

చిత్తూరు మునిసిపాలిటీని కార్పొరేషన్‌గా మార్పు చేయనున్న విషయం పాఠకులకు తెలిసిందే. చిత్తూరు, ఒంగోలు, ఖమ్మం మునిసిపాలిటీలకు కార్పొరేషన్ హోదా కల్పిస్తూ ముఖ్యమంత్రి కిరణ్‌కుమార్‌రెడ్డి వారం రోజుల కిందట ఫైళ్లపై సంతకం చేశా రు. జీవో ప్రభుత్వం విడుదల చేయాల్సి ఉంది. ప్రస్తుతం ఫైల్ న్యాయ శాఖ ఆర్థిక కార్యదర్శి వద్ద పరిశీలనలో ఉంది. 

రెండు, మూడు రోజుల్లో ప్రభుత్వ జీవో రావచ్చని అధికారులు చెబుతున్నారు. ఇదిలా ఉండగా సెలెక్షన్ గ్రేడుగా ఉన్న చిత్తూరు మునిసిపాటీ జనాభా 2,05,000 ఉంది. మొత్తం 37 వార్డులున్నాయి. ఈ మునిసిపాలిటీతోపాటు పట్టణం చుట్టుపక్కల ఉన్న 16 పంచాయతీలను సైతం విలీనం చేసి కార్పొరేషన్ చేయాలంటూ అధికారులు ప్రభుత్వానికి ప్రతిపాదనలు పంపారు.



16 పంచాయతీల్లో జనాభా సుమారు 50వేలుగా ఉంది. ఈ లెక్కన 16 పంచాయతీలు, మునిసిపాలిటీ జనాభా కలిపితే 2.50-3.00 లక్షల అవుతుంది. సాధారణంగా కార్పొరేషన్ కావాలంటే కనీసం 50 డివిజన్లు ఉండాలి. ఒక్కో డివిజన్‌లో 3వేల నుంచి 5వేల వరకు జనాభా ఉండాలి. 16 పంచాయతీల విలీనంతో కార్పొరేషన్ జనాభా 3 లక్షలకు చేరుకోనుండటంతో దాదాపు 65 డివిజన్లు అయ్యే అవకాశం కనిపిస్తోంది.

తొలి డివిజన్ మురకంబట్టు..? 
చిత్తూరు కార్పొరేషన్ మొదటి డివిజన్ మురకంబట్టు అయ్యే అవకాశం ఉంది. ఎందుకంటే కార్పొరేషన్ అయితే నగరంలోని ఈశాన్య భాగం నుంచే మొదటి డివిజన్‌ను సర్వే ప్రకారం అధికారులు గుర్తిస్తారు. ఈ లెక్కన మురకంబట్టు (తిరుపతి రోడ్డు) ఈశాన్యంలో ఉంది. దీంతో చిత్తూరు కార్పొరేషన్ మొదటి డివిజన్ మురకంబట్టు కానుందని తెలిసింది.