The Special Chief Secretary of Municipal Administration and Urban Development Aravind Kumar lauded the inspiring encouragement of minister KTR on behalf of the elected local body representatives for guiding the urban local bodies to secure top notch at the national level.
The senior IAS official in a tweet thanked the minister for giving a direction to attain the goal at the national level. The tweet mentioned that state could achieve top two slot and hoped the constant guidance of the minister would enable the state forge ahead in the coming years.
It may be recalled that Telangana got 16 swachch Sarvekshan awards at the national level on the eve of Azaadi@75 and it stood second in the award winning states next to Maharashtra state which got 19 awards.
Five urban local bodies in the under 15 thousand population category including sustainable, fastest moving cities . Boothpur, Chandur, Chityal, Koththapalli and Neredcharla ULBs got the awards in the fifteen thousand below population list. Koththapalli, ghatkesar,Gajwel and Badangpet municipalities won the awards under cleanest city categories.
Secunderabad Contonment urban local body won the best city in citizen feed back category. Urban local bodies Husnabad, Kompalli, Adibatla and Vemulawada in the fifteen to twenty five thousand population category , Turkayamjal, Korutla and Siricilla in the 25 to fifteen thousand population category won awards in the Azaadi @75.
