Ponnur Municipality

Ponnur Municipality is the local self government in Ponnur, a town in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is classified as a "Grade–II" municipality.
History.
The municipality was constituted in the year 1964 as "Grade–III" and then got upgraded in the year 1984 as a "Grade–II" municipality.
Administration.
The jurisdictional area of the municipality is spread over an area of with 31 municipal and 16 revenue wards. The "Elected Wing" of the municipality consists of a municipal council, which has elected members and is headed by a Chairperson. Whereas, the "Executive Wing" is headed by a municipal commissioner. The present chairperson of the municipality is "Sajja Hemalatha" and the present commissioner is "M.Ramesh Babu".
As per the survey conducted in 2014, there exists 60,600 households. In 2014–15, the total income generated by the municipality was and the expenditure spent was .
Civic works and services.
The municipality supplies drinking and irrigation water to the town from the Kommamuru, Poondla and Alwala channels of Krishna Western Delta system. by means of borewells, public taps and water treatment plants. A total of 9 MLD (million liters per day) of drinking water is supplied everyday. There are of cement concrete roads and of drains and of storm water drains.
The other infrastructure covers street lights, markets, and burial grounds, and recreational centers like, parks, playgrounds, auditoriums, functional halls and worship centers like temples, mosques and churches. There are both government and private educational institutions from primary to high schools including junior colleges. For public health, the municipality has a Government hospital and many other government and private nursing homes.