Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh won four of the national Swachh Survekshan awards in the Swachh Survekshan-2023 and emerged top among states in the South. The temple city of Tirupati has dropped to eighth place among the top 10 cleanest cities in India, according to the Swachh Survekshan rankings. Guntur received the second rank at the national level, followed by Greater Visakhapatnam …
The citizens have become the unintended victims of the logjam between the Andhra Pradesh government and protesting outsourced municipal workers as the complaints related to stink emanating from piled-up garbage, dog and mosquito menace pouring in. With the State government not agreeing to the main demands of the workers, the latter on January 6 announced that their Statewide indefinite strike …
Vijayawada: Vijayawada Municipal Corporation commissioner Swapnil Dinkar Pundkar said that following instruction from Andhra Pradesh municipal administration & urban development department, the VMC would observe the ‘4th International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies’, aiming for clean air and blue skies to create public awareness and how to improve air pollution on September 5 and September 7. He said …
In a tragic incident, a six-year-old boy reportedly fell in a drainage and drowned at Gurunanak Colony, in the city on May 5. “The boy Abhiram accidentally fell in the overflowing drainage while playing and drowned,” said the locals. The Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Response and Fire Services, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation and Police officials launched search for the missing boy. …