Visakhapatnam secured a significant world honour, successful a $1 million grant within the prestigious Bloomberg Philanthropies 2025–2026 Mayors Problem for its revolutionary local weather resilience initiative, Vizag–Prajamukhi City Residing Lab (V-PULL).
In response to a authorities assertion on Thursday, the award was introduced on Wednesday.
Visakhapatnam was chosen as one of many 24 world winners, rising from greater than 630 cities internationally that competed within the problem.
Visakhapatnam joined world cities like Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona, Toronto, Cape City, Budapest, Medellin and Belfast on International Local weather Innovation Platform.
V-PULL, a flagship mannequin of the Larger Visakhapatnam Municipal Company (GVMC), earned worldwide recognition for its civic participation framework aimed toward mitigating the impacts of floods, cyclones and extreme heatwaves by means of collaborative, citizen-driven options.
The initiative operates beneath a citizen-centric, climate-resilient and hyperlocal governance method.
Within the preliminary part of the competitors, GVMC was shortlisted among the many prime 50 finalists and acquired $50,000 in seed funding together with technical help.
“With this assist, the civic physique applied pilot interventions on the native stage. Structured ward-level group conferences have been carried out, hyperlocal sensing techniques have been examined and data-driven decision-making instruments have been launched,” the assertion stated.
Participatory local weather resilience and catastrophe preparedness measures helped set up an efficient suggestions mechanism between residents and municipal departments, strengthening bottom-up governance.
“Being chosen as a winner of the Bloomberg Philanthropies 2025–2026 Mayors Problem is a superb honour for GVMC. This recognition strengthens our perception that cities can lead transformative change when innovation is grounded in citizen participation and field-tested options,” GVMC Commissioner Ketan Garg stated.
“The $1 million grant will probably be utilised to strengthen the bottom-up governance method, improve catastrophe preparedness and increase these initiatives to extra wards throughout town,” he added.
The Mayors Problem was launched by Michael R. Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York Metropolis, to assist daring and artistic metropolis governments in fixing urgent city challenges.
With this recognition, Visakhapatnam now shares the worldwide platform with main worldwide cities, marking a big milestone in Visakhapatnam’s journey in direction of globally recognised climate-resilient city governance.
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