A.P. Chief Minister reviews beach cleaning activities in Visakhapatnam

Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu participated in the “Swarna Andhra–Swachh Andhra” programme at RK Beach in Visakhapatnam on Saturday (September 19, 2026) and inspected the ongoing efforts to keep the coastline clean and free of plastic waste.

He reviewed the beach cleaning activities and examined the system being used to digitally weigh the waste collected from the sea surface. On this occasion, he handed out incentives to fishermen engaged in collecting plastic waste as part of the coastal cleanliness initiative.

He interacted with sanitation workers, fishermen, and scuba divers, inquiring about the process of removing plastic waste and discarded fishing nets that had accumulated on the seabed. He learned from the divers about the methods being adopted to identify and remove waste from the sea floor.