Ananda CitYzen Trust (ACT), the CSR arm of Fluentgrid limited is striving for a clean and healthier society, and to promote and recognize the culture of clean and healthy living at the society level, has launched Best Resident Welfare Associations (RWA) Awards in 2019 in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Federation of Resident Welfare Association (APFERWAS). In this context, the first RWA awards were distributed at Dr. YVS Murthy Auditorium, AU College of Engineering on 14th December 2019 at Vizag, Andhra Pradesh.

A total of 69 RWAs from across the city have participated in the competition, which lasted for eight months. The screening in two stages was done by APFERWAS and the final selection by an independent committee. From them, 19 RWAs have been shortlisted for the awards, which carry cash awards totaling Rs. 5 lakhs. Platinum (₹40,000), Gold (₹25,000), Silver (₹15,000) and Special Award (₹5,000 to ₹10,000) were distributed to the deserving winners. The RWAs have been judged on four parameters such as clean and green colony, segregation of household waste at source, rainwater harvesting, and awareness of residents.

The award ceremony was graced by dignitaries, Municipal Administration Minister Botsa Satyanarayana, Visakhapatnam MP M.V.V. Satyanarayana, Municipal Commissioner G. Srijana & Vani Gannamani, the Director of Ananda CitYzen Trust (ACT). Municipal Administration Minister Botsa Satyanarayana, Government of Andhra Pradesh was the guest of honour for this event and Mrs. Vanni Gannamani has felicitated the deserving winners with 2 Platinum, 6 Gold, 7 Silver and 4 Special Awards.

More information on the link below: The Hindu: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/walking-the-etalk-for-smart-neighbourhood/article6829096.ece

CitYzen is the CSR arm of Fluentgrid Limited, which strives to foster sustainable and resilient communities for a better society through people participation. Under the CitYzen banner, we recently launched Lets Green Vizag, a CSR program aimed at bringing back the green cover of Vizag -lost due to Hudhud cyclone- through the active involvement of citizen volunteers. Honorable CM Sri Nara Chandrababu Naidu recently launched our tree mapping application (http://onevizag.org/map/) that has been used to capture the species details, location, and photographic evidence of nearly 50,000 plants so far. It is the first time in India that so many trees have been geotagged in a city along with photographic evidence. We are in the process of taking the next steps necessary to monitor their wellbeing in a sustainable manner, in coordination with GVMC.