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District Collector M.N. Harendira Prasad connected Saturday (December 20, 2025) directed officials to instrumentality contiguous measures to power the deteriorating aerial prime successful the city.
He constituted a district-level Air Quality Monitoring Task Force Committee, with himself arsenic the chairman, to show the steps being taken. The different members see Environmental Engineer of A.P. Pollution Control Board, Police Commissioner, GVMC chief, Project Director of NHAI, Deputy Transport Commissioner (DTC), RTC Regional Manager, General Manager Industries, Inspector of Factories, District Civil Supplies Officer, APIIC Zonal Manager and others.
Mr. Prasad held a gathering with officials and representatives of industries and aboriginal addressed a property league implicit the contented connected Saturday.
He instructed the GVMC officials to guarantee that vehicles utilized for transporting garbage and discarded are afloat covered with tarpaulin. He besides asked them to guarantee garbage is not transported beyond the capacity.
Stating that burning garbage increases aerial pollution, helium asked the authorities to strictly ticker and guarantee specified practises are not implemented. The Collector asked the radical to segregate bedewed and adust discarded earlier handing it implicit to the sanitation workers.
He besides said that greenish curtains should beryllium installed astir operation sites during gathering activities and cautioned against dumping operation debris connected the roadsides. He directed officials to support a adjacent ticker connected specified vehicles, particularly during nighttime hours, and initiate enactment by seizing the vehicles, isolated from slapping fines against the gathering owners concerned.
Meanwhile, to forestall contamination from industries, the Collector directed officials from the Pollution Control Board, Industries Department and Factories Department to behaviour astonishment inspections to guarantee that ember and different earthy worldly is stored properly.
Coming to the traffic, Mr. Harendhira Prasad asked officials to guarantee that each postulation signals relation decently and advised motorists to power disconnected engines if they person to hold for agelong durations astatine signals. The Collector instructed officials to guarantee contamination checks for aged vehicles and asked RTC officials to instrumentality precautions to forestall contamination from aged buses.
He besides directed that watering should beryllium carried retired to forestall particulate from rising astatine places wherever drains person been dug on roadsides and connected nationalist highways wherever ungraded is present.
To forestall adulteration astatine petrol bunks, the Collector asked officials from the Civil Supplies Department and Legal Metrology Department to behaviour inspections. He besides sought regular reports connected contamination power activities.
