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As galore arsenic 336 encroachments were removed crossed each zones wrong the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) limits arsenic portion of ‘Operation Lungs 2.0’ present connected Saturday (December 13, 2025).
Chief City Planner A. Prabhakar Rao, successful a merchandise connected Saturday, said that the encroachments connected roads and astatine junctions were removed crossed each zones to guarantee harmless pedestrian question connected footpaths and to facilitate creaseless vehicular postulation without obstructions astatine roads and junctions, thereby ensuring roadworthy safety.
He added that GVMC has undertaken a peculiar thrust to continuously region encroachments successful the nationalist involvement and that Operation Lungs is besides focused connected protecting vacant lands and authorities properties from encroachments crossed the city.
He further informed that during the play Public Grievance Redressal System (PGRS) programmes conducted each Monday astatine GVMC, a bulk of complaints received from the nationalist pertain to roadworthy and footpath encroachments and improper parking of vehicles on roadsides, starring to postulation congestion and inconvenience to commuters. In presumption of the request for contiguous enactment to resoluteness nationalist grievances, encroachments astatine large roads and junctions crossed the 8 zones of GVMC were identified and removed promptly with the practice of the police, the CCP said.
