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Focus on maintenance of basic needs: Civic chief
Municipal Commissioner M Harinarayanan asked the officials to mainly focus on the maintenance of basic needs, including sanitation, water supply and street lighting.
​Visakhapatnam: Municipal Commissioner M Harinarayanan asked the officials to mainly focus on the maintenance of basic needs, including sanitation, water supply and street lighting.
Harinarayanan who paid a field visit to the zone-1 areas on Tuesday irked over the choked drains and poor street lighting at Swatantranagar area and directed the officials concerned to initiate immediate steps to rectify the problem.
Zonal Commissioner Satyaveni and Assistant Director of Horticulture M Damodar were asked to prepare an action plan for the development of Swatantranagar Park.
The Civic Chief was also annoyed at the official apathy for not having attending to the desilting of drains to contain water logs during rains and asked Satyaveni to submit a plan for clearing all the 60 drains and 17 major geddas in the zone.
He also enquired the residents whether they have applied for the Prime Minister Awas Yojana or not.
Responding to the residents’ plea that the Central Lighting System was kept pending for long, Harinarayanan said that proposals were sent to the EPDCL.
