Archive · 27 Oct 2025
GVMC Addresses Non-Functional Streetlight Issues
The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is working to fix streetlights that aren't working in the city.
The GVMC Commissioner, Ketan Garg, ordered officials to make sure all streetlights are working correctly.
After checking areas like the beach road and residential areas, the Commissioner noticed many broken streetlights.
The engineering department has been told to fix the lights immediately.
To help with this, GVMC has hired 49 assistant engineers to watch over the streetlights in different areas.
GVMC is working to fix non-functional streetlights across Visakhapatnam.
The GVMC Commissioner inspected areas and identified non-functioning lights.
The Commissioner instructed immediate action to restore all lights.
Complaints about non-functional streetlights prompted the action.
Assistant engineers have been appointed to monitor and maintain the lights.
- Who
- Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC)
- What
- Addressing non-functional streetlights
- When
- Recently
- Where
- Visakhapatnam
- Why
- Following complaints about non-functional streetlights.
- Organization
- Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC)
- Issue
- Non-functional streetlights
- Directive
- GVMC Commissioner instructed to restore lights
- Personnel Involved
- Ketan Garg, SS Varma, PVV Satyanarayana Raju, Shivaprasad, Sampath Kumar
- Action
- Appointing assistant engineers for supervision