Vijayawada gets four stars in ‘climate smart cities’ rating
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The metropolis achieved a four-star rating in the ‘Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF) 2.0’ by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
It was among the many 9 cities in the nation that got four-star rating and no metropolis was given a five-star rating, mentioned Vijayawada Municipal Corporation Commissioner V. Prasanna Venkatesh.
Mr. Venkatesh mentioned that Vijayawada was the one non-smart metropolis that obtained the four stars. It was an ideal achievement for the town as respective departments might get insights from the City Performance Report (CPR) by way of the CSCAF evaluation and provoke mandatory environmental practices.
CSCAF nodal officer and Additional Commissioner U. Sarada Devi mentioned the CSCAF 2.0 consisted of 5 themes – vitality and inexperienced buildings, city planning, inexperienced cowl and biodiversity, mobility and air high quality and water and waste administration.
The metropolis obtained 5 stars in waste administration, four in city planning and water administration and three in vitality and inexperienced constructing and mobility and air high quality. The metropolis scored 1,880 out of two,800 factors in the evaluation.
Ms. Devi mentioned that the end result was because of collaborative initiatives taken up with NIUA, UN-Habitat, UNDP, AIILSG and others.
City coordinator and concrete planner from UN-Habitat Imran Basha mentioned that ULBs (city native our bodies) might leverage CSCAF suggestions to reinforce climate-oriented initiatives, mechanisms and undertake a roadmap to implement local weather actions.
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