GVMC wins $1 million Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge award

The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has been selected as one of the 24 global winners of the prestigious Bloomberg Philanthropies 2025–2026 Mayors Challenge, GVMC Commissioner, Ketan Garg announced in a release on Wednesday. With this achievement, Visakhapatnam will receive a $1 million grant along with technical and operational support, he stated.

Explaining the achievement, the Commissioner said that the ‘Vizag–Prajamukhi Urban Living Lab (V-PULL) a model of the GVMC earned the international recognition for its innovative civic participation initiative aimed at mitigating the impacts of floods, cyclones, and severe heatwave through collaborative solutions developed with citizens. The initiative is being implemented under the V-PULL framework, which emphasises a citizen-centric approach, climate resilience, and hyperlocal community engagement.