The Hindu             04.07.2013 

Minister launches Clean City Championship

Minister for Agriculture Kanna Lakshminarayana on Wednesday launched the Clean City Championship in Guntur West constituency.

The week-long sanitation campaign would be kicked off on Thursday morning.

Addressing a gathering of sanitary workers on Municipal High school premises at KVP Colony, Mr. Lakshminarayana called for people’s participation to make the programme a success.

The Minister called for enforcement of a complete ban on use of plastic in the town.

The Minister showed his solidarity with the campaign by wheeling the pushcart to a short distance along with women sanitary workers.

Member of Legislative Council K.S Lakshmana Rao hoped that the innovative campaign would show a way in dealing with garbage.

District Collector and Special officer of GMC, S. Suresh Kumar, said the programme was modelled on IPL. In a competitive spirit, sanitation workers would vie with one another in making the city garbage free. Points would be given to workers by SHG members.

He appealed to residents to cooperate by separating the waste into dry and wet waste and place them in two separate bags or bins. The house keepers would be given cards on which they have to mark the attendance of sanitary workers.

Every morning between 5.30 a.m. and 7.30 a.m, sanitary workers would arrive on streets blowing whistle. People should give them the waste covers instead of throwing them on roads or in canals. The town has been divided into 482 routes and each push cart would be manned by two persons.

Mr. Suresh Kumar said that about 400 M.T of waste was being generated in the town having a road network of 1, 630 k.m and a drain network of 1, 850 k.m.

Municipal Commissioner K. Venkateswarlu, Additional Commissioner P. Srinivasulu, Municipal Health Officer Sridhar were present.