mangalore today
name
name
name
Friday, March 29
Genesis Engineersnamename

 

Concluding celebrations at RK Mission with Kudroli Ganesh clean magic show tomorrow

Concluding celebrations at RK Mission with Kudroli Ganesh clean magic show tomorrow


Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, July 27, 2018: Citizens of Mangaluru and DK are aware and appreciative of the 41 week super effort which concluded on July 22, Sunday, an awareness and determination for the future is a visible good result. The formal public concluding ceremony of Phase 4 of ‘Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan’ will be held at Ramakrishna Mutt Auditorium in Mangaluru at 4 pm on July 28, said Swami Jitakamananda, Ramakrishna Mutt Mangaluru president.

 

RK Mission

 

RK Mission


Addressing media at Ramakrishna Mutt July 26,  Thursday, he said that Swami Divyananda, secretary of Ramakrishna Mission Saradapith, Belur Mutt, will preside over the programme. Nitte Education Trust Chairman N Vinay Hegde, MRPL Director (Finance) A K Sahoo and Mangaluru South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath will be guests of honour.

Swacchata Abhiyan volunteers Chandrakant Kulkarni and Bhavya Rani will be felicitated. Students who have performed well in the Swacchata Darshana exams will be awarded on the occasion. The stage programme will be followed by a special magic show on cleanliness by Kudroli Ganesh troupe at 7 pm.

200 volunteers :  Swacch Bharat Campaign coordinator Dilraj Alva said that about 200 volunteers have taken part in the fourth phase of the cleanliness drive, starting last November.

“The participants included professionals, social activists, entrepreneurs and students. ‘Shramadaan’ was conducted on every Sunday between 7 am and 10 am in various parts of the city. The ‘Shramadaan’ included cleaning the roads, dividers and drains, renovation and restoration of parks, restoration of direction boards, and name plates, restoration and erection of new bus shelters, removal of unauthorized banners, buntings and posters, beautification of compound walls and painting of art works,” he added.

Daily awareness campaign coordinator Umanath Kotekar said that the volunteers have visited about 100 houses everyday, spreading awareness on cleanliness, segregation of waste and overall waste management. About 170 programmes have been conducted and 20,000 houses have been visited under this initiative by nearly 40 groups of volunteers. Boibins and bags have been distributed for preparation of compost and storage of dry waste respectively.

Swacchata Senanis  :  Swacch Manas campaign coordinator Ranjan B said that the programmes have been conducted in nearly 108 schools in Mangaluru, Bantwal and Puttur taluks.

“About 10,757 students from these schools were selected as Swacchata Senanis. About 500 programmes have been conducted in these schools under the concept, Swacchata Chintana, Swacchata Spardha, Swacchata Diwas, Swacchata Manthana and Swacchata Darshana. Training sessions were conducted once a month. Five students from each school were selected as Swacch Ambassadors and were given training in a workshop in Ramakrishna Mutt,” he said.

“Pots are being provided to interested people at a subsidized price of Rs 500 as against Rs 2000, by Ramakrishna Mutt, towards encouraging composting and segregation of waste,” Ranjan added.

Swami Ekagamyananda, Ramakrishna Mission Swacchata Abhiyana convener, said that in order to expand the scope and domain of the Swacchata Abhiyan, the Ramakrishna Mission took up Swaccha Grama drive in 100 villages in Mangaluru and Bantwal taluks, in association with local gram panchayats.

About 6,000 volunteers have actively participated in the drives.

Clean drinking water units have been installed in 30 villages. Efforts are also being made to repair and restore dilapidated toilets and construction of toilets.

Black spots in city eliminated :  Ramakrishna Mission’s Swatchata Abhiyan Phase IV, besides the cleaning on every Sunday and the daily awareness programme, was successful in eliminating at least 40 black spots where garbage was being dumped regularly, said programme convener Swami Ekagamyanandaji.

Volunteers cleaned such locations, beautified them and in some cases, fenced them besides creating awareness about cleanliness among the people who used to throw garbage. Daily vigil too was being maintained for a few days at such spots, he said.

For further information contact Swami Ekagamyanandaji at 9448353162


Write Comment | E-Mail | Facebook | Twitter | Print
Error:NULL
Write your Comments on this Article
Your Name
Native Place / Place of Residence
Your E-mail
Your Comment
You have characters left.
Security Validation
Enter the characters in the image above