YSRC leader Dronamraju Srinivasa Rao has appointed as the chairman of Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA) on Saturday (13-05-2019).The VMRDA replaced the erstwhile Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (Vuda) by adding 1,000 square kilometre area in 2018.
He will be the first chairman of the VMRDA, more than 40 years after his father late Mr. Satyanarayana held the post of first chairman of the newly-constituted Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority in 1978, upgrading it from the Town Planning Trust.