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Chandrababu Naidu reviews urban beautification plan
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu reviewed the action plan of Urban Greening and Beautification Corporation (UGBC) at Secretariat in Velagapudi on Friday. The officials gave a presentation on the activities taken up by UGBC.
Amaravati: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu reviewed the action plan of Urban Greening and Beautification Corporation (UGBC) at Secretariat in Velagapudi on Friday. The officials gave a presentation on the activities taken up by UGBC.
The UGBC aims to create greenery and beautify open places, canal bunds, river front areas, tank bunds, either side of roads, on road dividers, government office premises and other public places. It is providing services to CRDA, municipal corporations and municipalities, temples, TTD, water resources department, universities, hospitals, national highways, urban development authorities, Visakhapatnam Port Trust.
The UGBC officials informed the Chief Minister that it has taken up beautification projects at 145 parks, 26 river front areas, 352 roads, road divider places, traffic islands, 23 temples, 11 universities, 12 hospitals, 8 national highways and plantation of saplings at 68 places and 5 hill areas. In total. it has taken up about 650 beautification works across the state, they said.
The UGBC envisages for integrated beautification in urban areas, drawing designs for planting of saplings and it has also prepared a master plan for developing greenery at Avilala tank in Tirupati and in Tirumala hill shrine, the officials said.
They informed the CM that UGBC has developed a mobile app in the name of “Go Green”, which is meant for giving information on horticulture products and its services.
While asking the UGBC to develop the app fully CM said that the user should get complete information once he downloads it. The officials said that the UGBC has provided outdoor fitness centres and sports equipment at 20 parks in the state as a
pilot project.
