{"id":50646,"date":"2021-08-25T06:43:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T06:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=50646"},"modified":"2021-08-25T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T06:43:28","slug":"andhra-pradesh-became-first-state-with-three-water-plus-certified-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/andhra-pradesh-became-first-state-with-three-water-plus-certified-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh became first state with three \u2018water plus\u2019 certified cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has recognised three municipal corporations in Andhra Pradesh with &#8216;Water Plus&#8217; certification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With this, Andhra Pradesh has become the first state to be recognized with more than one &#8216;Water Plus&#8217; certified municipal corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tirupati Municipal corporation, Vijayawada Municipal corporation, and Greater Vishakhapatnam Municipal corporation (GVMC) were certified as &#8216;Water Plus&#8217; under the Swachh Bharat Mission and Swachh Survekshan Assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the existing protocols prescribed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, the Water plus certification is the next step after receiving Open Defecation Free (ODF\/ODF+ \/ODF++) status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has recognised three municipal corporations in Andhra Pradesh with &#8216;Water Plus&#8217; certification. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 With this, Andhra Pradesh has become the first state to be recognized with more than one &#8216;Water Plus&#8217; certified municipal corporation. Tirupati Municipal corporation, Vijayawada Municipal corporation, and Greater Vishakhapatnam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":50647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[94],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-50646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-august-2021","tag-andhra-pradesh-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50648,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50646\/revisions\/50648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50646"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=50646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}