GVMC wins $1 million Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge award

The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has been selected arsenic 1 of the 24 planetary winners of the prestigious Bloomberg Philanthropies 2025–2026 Mayors Challenge, GVMC Commissioner, Ketan Garg announced successful a merchandise connected Wednesday. With this achievement, Visakhapatnam volition person a $1 cardinal assistance on with method and operational support, helium stated.

Explaining the achievement, the Commissioner said that the ‘Vizag–Prajamukhi Urban Living Lab (V-PULL) a exemplary of the GVMC earned the planetary designation for its innovative civic information inaugural aimed astatine mitigating the impacts of floods, cyclones, and terrible heatwave done collaborative solutions developed with citizens. The inaugural is being implemented nether the V-PULL framework, which emphasises a citizen-centric approach, clime resilience, and hyperlocal assemblage engagement.