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.