The Hindu 18.04.2013
Towards making Guntur clean
Students join hands with GMC to bag Clean City Championship.
Students of various engineering colleges have pledged their support
to the Guntur Municipal Corporation by conducting a household survey as
part of the civic body’s effort to bag the Clean City Championship.
The
Clean City Championship, modelled on the Indian Premier League, is a
race among the civic staff to keep the city clean. Points would be given
on benchmarks of effective solid waste management — creating awareness,
waste segregation at source, and recycling of waste. Even students have
been involved in this and they would conduct door-to-door survey on the
work done by the sanitary staff.
Warangal Municipal Corporation
was the first in the State to host the championship in 2012. Now it is
the turn of the Guntur Municipal Corporation.
On Wednesday,
Municipal Commissioner P. Srinivasulu flagged off college buses carrying
students of RVR & JC College of Engineering, NRI Institute of
Technology, and Malineni Perumallu Integrated Campus.
Municipal
Health Officers — Lakshma Naik and Sridhar — were present. Environmental
Engineer, Tenali, Uday Singh, who played a prominent part in Warangal,
was present.
Students fanned out to residential and commercial
areas spanning across eight election divisions in Guntur and conducted a
baseline household survey. The primary survey report has details about
the door number, name of the house owners, number of people residing on
various floors of the house etc.
“The survey helps us review our
manpower and infrastructure. We will also know the number of commercial
holdings and deploy more number of men,” MHO Sridhar told
The Hindu
.
A curtain raiser to the launch of the Clean City Championship
will be held on April 25 and the championship will commence on May 5.