Andhra Pradesh will become a plastic-free State by June 2026, says Naidu

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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu participating successful  a clean-up thrust  astatine  Swarnandhra–Swachhandhra programme astatine  Macherla successful  Palnadu territory  connected  Saturday.

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu participating successful a clean-up thrust astatine Swarnandhra–Swachhandhra programme astatine Macherla successful Palnadu territory connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu connected Saturday launched a run against single-use plastic, declaring that Andhra Pradesh would go a plastic-free State by June 2026.

Addressing the Swarnandhra–Swachhandhra programme astatine Macherla successful Palnadu district, helium said the government’s ngo was not lone to region garbage from the streets but besides to cleanse the ‘dirty politics’ that plagued the portion for years.  

Participating successful a cleaning thrust astatine a tank, the Chief Minister joined sanitation workers successful removing waste. He aboriginal visited a aesculapian camp, interacted with sanitation and healthcare staff, and handed implicit a cheque of ₹52 crore to women Self Help Groups (SHGs).  

Mr. Naidu utilized the level to nonstop a beardown governmental message, alleging that ideology was missing successful Palnadu until the NDA confederation came to powerfulness successful 2024. “For years, rowdyism and transgression were sheltered nether the guise of politics. But that epoch is over. We volition not stay soundless if anti-social elements onslaught citizens oregon their properties,” helium warned.  

The Chief Minister credited the NDA authorities with restoring state successful Macherla, recalling that adjacent helium was barred from visiting the municipality during the YSRCP’s tenure.  

Varikapudisela project

The Chief Minister vowed to implicit the long-pending Varikapudisela project, describing it arsenic the ‘lifeline of Palnadu’. The task envisages supplying irrigation h2o for 1.25 lakh acres and drinking h2o for 1 lakh people.

He reiterated that the NDA authorities would guarantee Polavaram project’s completion by 2027, portion moving up with large river-linking projects to guarantee h2o information statewide.  

Mr. Naidu announced that the authorities would organise the historical Palnati Veerula Aradhana Utsavams astatine Karamchedu, wage peculiar attraction to the economical upliftment of Palnadu, and authorisation ₹50 crore for processing Macherla arsenic a exemplary municipality.

Chilli Board

He assured chilli farmers that efforts were connected to acceptable up a Chilli Board, underlining the government’s absorption connected Jal Jeevan Mission to proviso drinking h2o to each household.  

Highlighting sanitation efforts, Mr. Naidu said much than 85 lakh tonnes of bequest discarded had been cleared up of Gandhi Jayanthi. “Waste-to-energy plants person already been operational successful Visakhapatnam and Guntur. More specified facilities are coming up successful Rajamahendravaram, Nellore, Kadapa, and Kurnool. Every national indispensable articulation the plastic-free movement. Together, we tin make a cleaner and greener Andhra Pradesh,” helium said. 

The Chief Minister besides listed retired the payment initiatives launched by his government, including Thalliki Vandanam, escaped autobus question for women, escaped LPG cylinders nether Deepam scheme, and nonstop fiscal enactment to farmers nether Annadata Sukhibhava.

“These Super Six schemes person go Super Hit. Investment inflows and occupation instauration are reshaping the State’s economy,” helium said.

Mr. Naidu besides interacted with the ‘Margadarsis’ and ‘Bangaru Kutumbams’ of the P4 programme.  

Published - September 20, 2025 07:55 p.m. IST

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