Karimnagar Municipal Corporation to bear the entire electricity cost
Target to provide free electricity to nearly 2,000 Ganesh pandals
It may be recalled that Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar has been paying the electricity bills of Ganesh pandals for the last three years.
The Union Minister urges organisers to set up Ganesh pandals without causing inconvenience to traffic or the public
Appeals to people to celebrate Ganesh festivals with enthusiasm and devotion
Bandi Sanjay Kumar says he will develop Karimnagar Municipal Corporation as a model corporation in both development and festival management
Union Minister also laid foundation stones for development works in Lakshmipur and Malkapur areas of the 16th Division.
KARIMNAGAR, AUGUST 18, 2026: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar said that the Municipal Corporation of Karimnagar has decided to provide free electricity to all Ganesh pandals set up within the Karimnagar Corporation limits. He announced that the Karimnagar Corporation will pay all the electricity bills for these pandals. He appealed to people to celebrate the Ganesh festival in a peaceful and devotional atmosphere.
Around 2,000 Ganesh pandals are set up every year within the Karimnagar Corporation limits. For the last three years, Bandi Sanjay Kumar has been paying the entire electricity bills for these pandals from his own money. Now that the BJP has taken charge of the Karimnagar Mayor’s post, the decision by the Corporation to pay all the electricity bills of Ganesh pandals is significant.
As part of his visit to Karimnagar on Tuesday, Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar, along with Karimnagar Mayor Kolagani Srinivas, Deputy Mayor Sunil Rao, Commissioner Praful Desai and local corporators, laid the foundation stone for CC road and drainage works in Sriramnagar Colony of Vidyanagar, 21st Division. The works will be taken up with ₹1 crore from the Municipal General Funds.
Speaking at the programme, Bandi Sanjay Kumar said that he is working day and night for the development of the Karimnagar Parliamentary constituency that elected him. He said that development works worth ₹22,000 crore have been taken up so far. Out of this, national highways worth ₹5,000 crore have been constructed. He also said that he has provided ₹5 lakh to every village and that, in the coming days, he will provide more funds for the development of villages.
On the other hand, Bandi Sanjay Kumar said that he has brought ₹840 crore under the Urban Challenge Fund (UCF) within 100 days as a way of repaying the trust of the people who believed in him and handed over the Karimnagar Municipal Corporation to the BJP. He said that ₹940 crore had already been brought under the Smart City programme for the development of Karimnagar. He pointed out that although Warangal also received Smart City funds, the city did not see the expected development.
He said he is making every effort to ensure that Karimnagar, which has placed its trust in him, becomes one of the leading cities in the Telugu states in both development and festival management and appealed to all corporators to keep politics aside after elections and work together beyond political differences, with development as the main goal, to make Karimnagar a better city.
After this programme, he performed Bhoomi Pooja for the construction of a water pipeline in Lakshmipur and Malkapur colonies of the 16th Division. The pipeline works will be taken up at a cost of ₹15 lakh under the 15th Finance Commission funds.
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