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Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Minister P. Narayana has asked the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) to initiate measures to guarantee that each the sewages are treated decently earlier being drained into the sea.
“In the adjacent 18 months, each the sewage discharged done drains volition beryllium treated,” helium said aft inspecting the large drains, including a fewer successful Lawsons Bay Colony and Pandurangapuram connected Friday (October 17, 2025) night.
Visakhapatnam East MLA Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu, GVMC Commissioner Ketan Garg and different officials accompanied Mr. Narayana.
During the inspection, Mr. Narayana said that the authorities was moving connected broad plans to marque the coastline clean, eco-friendly, and pollution-free.
Around 380 MLD (million litres per day) of h2o is being supplied to the metropolis for drinking and different purposes, of which 263 MLD is utilized water. Out of this, 179 MLD is already being treated, portion plans are afoot to dainty the remaining 54 MLD, on with different 25 MLD nether the AMRUT 2.0 scheme.
He said that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had directed that not adjacent a azygous driblet of untreated sewage should participate the sea, and the formation should stay escaped from pollution. In enactment with these directions, respective drains starring into the oversea were inspected, helium said.
“Sewage presently flows into the Visakhapatnam formation done 25 large drains, retired of which 13 drains person already been connected to underground drainage systems. For the remaining drains, attraction plants volition beryllium acceptable up to guarantee due sewage purification,” helium said, adding that the GVMC Commissioner has been instructed to initiate the indispensable measures.
The Minister said that helium would revisit Visakhapatnam wrong 10 days to conscionable with the city’s MLAs, sermon their suggestions, and hole a broad program to forestall sewage from mixing into the oversea done metropolis drains.
GVMC Chief Engineer P.V.V. Satyanarayana Raju, Chief Medical Officer Dr. E.N.V. Naresh Kumar and others were present.
