Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh has managed to bring down the prevalence of child underweight and mortality rates, it still needs to improve its performance in prevalence of Anaemia among women and increase in deaths due to diarrhoea ...

In a bid to combat air pollution, the Indian Navy has been taking several steps like planting trees, using electric scooters and carts and conducting awareness camps ...

On March 4, Tirupati got 105 customised 'i-Praise - The Intelligent Scooter' to promote electric mobility, zero emission travel, and curbing the problem of air pollution in the city ...

The Chandrababu Naidu-led government announced its new electric mobility policy with its aims to have one lakh slow and fast EV charging stations installed throughout the state in addition to ten lakh EVs by 2024 ...

To tackle the issue of open urination, Municipal Corporation of Tirupati has imposed a fine of Rs. 100 against the practice ...

As per the Narsapuram municipal chairperson Pasupuleti Ratnamala, the sanitation service levels in the town were far below the prescribed norms prior to the Swachh Bharat Mission ...

A four-member committee comprising representatives of the Central Pollution Control Board, additional principal chief conservator of forests, the State Pollution Control Board and the district magistrate, has been asked by the National Green Tribunal to conduct an inspection near the Polavaram dam in Andhra Pradesh and submit a report after a plea alleged that muck was being dumped illegally at the site ...

After plastic was banned in Tirupati town on October 1, a plastic ban will now be implemented in the Tirupati Balaji temple from November 1 onwards ...

After construction of over 2 lakh toilets in urban areas and 37.76 toilets in rural areas, the Swachh Andhra Corporation races to become India’s first ODF plus state by January 26, 2019 ...

Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation uses around 200 tonnes of wet waste to produce 30-40 tonnes of compost daily ...

The plan for an ODF plus Andhra Pradesh was launched by the Department Of Panchayati Raj and Rural Development and a deadline of January 2019 has been set for achieving ODF plus status ...

Hyderabad’s civic body estimates that composting by bulk generators will result in up to 900 metric tonnes of less waste generated in the city daily ...