Visakhapatnam: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has decided to leverage the programme run by United Nation Development Programme (UNDP), in association with the Government of India, to take up Covid-19 prevention and control measures in the city.
GVMC will conduct decentralised activities at the ward level involving ward corporators, secretariats, the community and other stakeholders under the initiative. GVMC mayor G Hari Venkata Kumari has requested corporators to get involved with the programme which may help them deal with the present or future emergencies.
Civic body officials say that the activities will include: preparation of staff communication plan, capacity building among ward secretariat staff and health workers, and institutional strengthening. Standard operating procedures for the city operations centre and the smart city mission would be reviewed and revised and hygiene initiatives will be taken up at the community level. Community resilience will be a priority and awareness would be created through information, education and communication (IEC) activities.