District Collector A. Mallikharjuna has called on all citizens to keep the beaches clean as scores of tourists, including foreigners, visit them and it is important to give them a good impression of the city.
The Collector participated in a beach cleaning programme - Sagara Teera Swatchata - organised by the District Administration, at R. K. Beach in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
Addressing the gathering, Dr. Mallikharjuna said that the beach cleaning programme would hereafter be organised on the first Sunday of every month, with prior intimation to the public. A portal on the theme ‘Our Vizag, our responsibility’ would also be launched on ‘beach cleaning’. He called on every citizen to do their bit to keep the city clean. He also appealed to beach-goers to make it a point to use dustbins to throw plastic covers, bottles and other waste into them, and strictly abstain from dumping waste at will on the beach.
