What’s in a name? Everything for Mayor and his team

Koneru Sreedhar, his wife, and corporators to get streets, parks named after them

A street in Vijayawada’s 9th division has already been named after Mayor Koneru Sreedhar.

With the term of the city municipal council coming to an end soon, elected representatives are doing their best to ‘leave their mark’ by making sure streets and parks in their divisions are named after themselves, their family name or their favourite political leaders and bureaucrats.

As many as 46 such proposals were submitted by the council members in the Sports and Traffic Special Committee meeting held on Saturday.

Twenty of them were approved by the committee and would be put before the council for approval.

Mayor Koneru Sreedhar was much ahead of the members and had a street in his division named after him. People on the High School road between the Pantakaluva junction and the APIIC Colony were surprised at the boards reading ‘Mayor Koneru Sreedhar Street’ a couple of days ago.

When contacted, assistant city planner concerned Balaji said he was not aware of it.

Proposal approved

Naming of another road close to it after Mayor’s wife and former corporator Koneru Ramadevi was approved by the committee following a proposal by co-opted member S. Nagendra Reddy.

Yedupati Ramaiah (28th division) proposed a park in his division be named after him following the requests of locals was also approved.

The requests of Corporator (51 division) Kotiboyina Durga Bhavani and Bugatha Umamaheswari (56 division) to name a street after them and that of Pinnamaraju Trimurthy Raju (46 division) for a a centre were approved.

Proposals to name the streets after Commissioner J. Nivas, former Commissioners Praveen Prakash, Natarajan Gulzar, B.R. Ambedkar, Lord Venkateswara and Lord Anjaneya, local politicians and others were struck down by the committee.