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Vijayawada, which was awarded the ‘Super Swachh City’ tag successful the Swachh Survekshan, 2024, has been designated arsenic a mentor metropolis for 5 smaller ones successful Andhra Pradesh nether the ‘Swachh City Jodi’ inaugural of the Central government.
The 5 mentee cities are Narsapur, Samarlakota, Akividu, Chintalapudi, and Gollaprolu. In accordance with the instructions of Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) Commissioner Dhyanachandra H.M., a gathering was held connected Saturday to formalise a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) among these cities nether the initiative.
A video league was held nether the supervision of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, during which the MoU was signed by each the paired mentor and mentee cities.
The ‘Swachh City Jodi 2025’ inaugural pairs high‑performing cities (mentor cities) with lower‑ranking ones (mentee cities) for 100 days to jointly instrumentality steps toward improved cleanliness and sanitation.
Cities that performed good successful Swachh Survekshan 2024 are recognised arsenic the mentor cities and paired with those with little rankings to usher them. Vijayawada, which performed good successful the yearly surveys, volition usher and enactment these 5 cities successful achieving improvements successful cleanliness.
Speaking aft the speech of MoUs, Additional Commissioner (Projects), VMC, D. Chandrashekhar pointed retired that Vijayawada and the 5 spouse cities would enactment for 100 days to execute the goals.
Their contiguous information would beryllium assessed first, and past guidance would beryllium provided connected each indispensable measures to go amended performing cities.
VMC Chief Medical Officer of Health K. Arjuna Rao, Assistant Medical Health Officer Babu Srinivas and Commissioners of the 5 cities M. Anjayya, A. Srividya, G. Krishnamohan, A. Rambabu, and Gollaprolu’s Assistant Engineer Mohammad Aleesha were contiguous connected the occasion.
