Beach Festival arrangements in full swing

Kakinada: District Collector Kartikeya Mishra has ordered district officials to set working agendas for the various departments in lieu of the beach festival that begins on December 19.

He conducted a special review meeting on the arrangements of the festival with all the district officials at the Collectorate on Saturday evening.

Joint Collector Mallikarjuna explained the arrangements made so far and reported to have sent invites to important personalities across the state. The JC further said that they undertook a campaign in all the important towns and cities of AP and at all the main junctions in the district with hoardings and posters about the beach festival.

The JC also said that they had completed arrangements for supply of the drinking water facilities, lavatory facilities, stalls, parking facilities at the NTR beach. He further informed that they had prepared plans for VVIP Green Channel Route, Traffic Route and barricading.

Speaking on the occasion, Collector Mishra said that they would start the campaign on ODF (Open Defecation-Free). He further said that a newly constructed guesthouse would be launched on the second day of the beach festival.

Mishra ordered the officials to establish separate galleries for the VVIPs, VIPs and for the Media at the dais. He further informed that in the wake of the beach festival, they were going to conduct Rangavalli and Mehandi competitions.Rajahmundry Sub-Collector Saikanth Varma, JC2 Radha Krishna Murthy, Assistant Collector Anand, Tourism ED Bhima Sankar Rao and Whizcraft representatives participated.