Nellore 14 Division Corporator Kartham Prathap Reddy’s “One Day One Street Cleanliness” drive, inspired by Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu’s “Swachh Andhra – Swarna Andhra” programme, has helped alteration areas specified arsenic A.C. Nagar, Padmavathi Nagar, Balaji Nagar and Srinagar implicit the past fewer weeks.
In an exclusive enactment with The Hindu connected Saturday (September 27, 2025), helium said, “This programme was launched connected August 18, 2025, with an purpose to support our part cleanable and green. Out of 80 streets successful the division, we person already sanitised 30 streets, and are moving 4 days a week. Along with the municipal staff, I hired 3 backstage workers who cleanable the streets regular betwixt 5.30 a.m. and 10.30 a.m.”
The Corporator said that helium is utilizing his ain funds to guarantee that workers are dropping lipid balls into the canals, bleaching, fogging, spraying mosquito repellents, and removing silt and ungraded from the canals, successful accordance with the instructions of the Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Ponguru Narayana.
He is besides raising consciousness connected cleanliness for the amended bully of nationalist information and health. “I volition ever stay successful nationalist work to service the radical of Division 14, who made maine triumph with a bulk of 1,918 votes during the past election. Earlier, I had planted Tulsi saplings astatine unauthorised dumping sites to discourage radical from littering. This determination was appreciated by erstwhile municipal commissioner Surya Teja, who directed officials to bash the aforesaid successful each divisions.”
He further said, “It is the work of each national to support the situation clean, forestall h2o stagnation astatine unfastened places and to guarantee that determination are nary integrative containers, aged tyres, oregon discarded coconut shells connected rooftops oregon unfastened areas.”

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