The Hindu              03.07.2013 

Guntur gears up for sanitation contest

At the strike of dawn on Thursday, the roads in the town are going to witness a frenzied activity. Blowing shrill whistles, hundreds of sanitary workers will be on the roads wheeling their push carts collecting residential waste from houses and some others would busy in clearing the clogged drains.

The bustling town and a nerve centre of trading activity is all set to see the final and decisive round of Clean City Championship from Wednesday. The Guntur Municipal Corporation is only the second municipality in the State after Warangal to host the championship aimed at making the town free of garbage.

Minister for Agriculture Kanna Lakshminarayana will launch the programme at a municipal school in KVP Colony. MLA-Guntur East, Sk. Mastan Vali will launch the programme at Siva Nagaraju Colony. District Collector and Special Officer of Guntur Municipal Corporation S. Suresh Kumar, who is the main driving force behind the drive called, ‘Oorante Gunture’, asked the entire personnel of the GMC to be geared up for the event.

Additional Commissioner P. Srinivasalu is the nodal officer for the programme. He said that 481 push carts are being pressed on Thursday in a massive operation aimed at cleaning up the city. As many as 60 transporting units are ready with their route maps. The route officers are geared up with field plans.

Modelled on the hugely popular IPL, the Clean City Championship is an exciting competition among the sanitary personnel to make their wards clean and free from garbage. Workers would be given points on the basis of their performance in collecting waste from households, transporting the segregated waste to points, etc.,,

Sanitation workers will be given prizes based on their performance.