GVMC approves ₹4,762 crore budget for 2025-26

The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) on Saturday approved a budget of ₹4,762 crore for the 2025-26 financial year. A special meeting was organised under the aegis of Mayor Golagani Hari Venkata Kumari and District Collector and in-charge GVMC Commissioner M.N. Harendhira Prasad to discuss the budget.

Amid the no-confidence motion notice issued against the Mayor, except two Deputy Mayors, and a corporator, all the YSRCP corporators failed to attend the meeting.

Expressing displeasure over the delay in organising the meeting and conducting it just two days before the end of the financial year, TDP, JSP, BJP, CPI, CPI(M) corporators said that they are approving the budget for the sake of development of the municipal corporation and for the citizens.