Residents urged to participate in Clean Kurnool campaign

Kurnool: CB Harinath Reddy, Commissioner of the Kurnool Municipal Corporation (KMC), made an appeal to city residents to extend cooperation with the civic officials for improving sanitation so that the city may get better ranking in the Swachh Survekshan survey to be taken up by the Central government in 2018.

The survey will be conducted from January 4 to March 14, 2018. Around 4,014 cities across the country are going to compete for the Swachh ranking contest in 2018, he added.

The civic chief held a review meeting with corporation officials at KMC conference hall here on Wednesday. Later, addressing the media, he said that they took up several developmental activities within the city limits to transform it into a clean and green city.

He called for people’s participation in making the city as ‘Clean Kurnool’ so that it will get recognition at the national level. He requested the people to use e-toilets, community toilets and public toilets in the city and make it as Open Defecation Free (ODF).

He stated every household and business establishments should segregate garbage as wet and dry and keep the surroundings clean by not throwing the waste on to the streets.

The segregated waste should be handed over to the sanitary staff of the corporation, he said. Reddy warned against usage of plastic as civic body had already banned it.

All teachers of the government and private schools and colleges should enlighten the students about the importance of Swachh Survekshan survey and sanitation, he added. He told them to download the ‘Puraseva’ app where all municipal services are available.