Week 14 of 40 Shramadan ’Swacchata Abhiyan’
Mangalore Today News Network
Mangaluru, Feb 05, 2018: Ramakrishna Mission continuing it’s consistent service for ’ Swacchata Abhiyan drive’ carried out 14 th Week’s Shramadhan in the Morgan’s gate and Mahakali Padpu area on February 4, Sunday.
The Drive was flagged off jointly by Sri K S Upadhyaya, Head of Raga Taranga and Sri Seetharam A. Sri K V Prasad, Sri V N Bhat, Sri Suresh Shetty and several others present on the occasion.
Cleanliness Drive: About 250 volunteers were divided into 6 groups and they undertook cleaning up and sprucing up work around the Mahakalipadpu railway gate. The students of St Aloysius College under the guidance of Professor Dr. Ishwara Bhat cleaned the area from Railway crossing to Morgan’s Gate main road including adjoining drains. Another group of students under the guidance of Prof. Sheshappa Amin cleaned the area from Mahakalipadpu to Highway. Volunteers of Swacch Mangaluru cleared the surroundings of railway track by cutting the over grown and dried weeds and grass and removed plastic bottles and 2 tippers of garbage. Dinesh Karkera and Vittaldas Prabhu led the group of volunteers and removed loads of sand from the road helping in the speedy movement of traffic. Employees of Antony Waste Management volunteered in the drive.
Erection of Road dividers: Daily more than 50 trains pass through Mahakali Padpu railway line and closure of gate as many times poses major problems to vehicles. This results in traffic jams, and rush during the peak hours. After a pre survey by the volunteers of Swacch Mangaluru after consulting localites, it was decided to erect road dividers by drilling about 20 iron rods on the road. Sri Dilraj Alva, Sri Sandeep Kodikal, Shubhoday Alva, Sujith Pratap, Akshith Attavara and other local volunteers actively participated in the drive. Awareness programme will be undertaken to enlighten the localites and regular commuters about traffic rules in this region. Cleanliness of bus shelter: The bus shelter near Jeppinamogaru highway was thoroughly cleaned. Sri Mukesh Alva, Sri Anand Adyar and several other volunteers removed illegal posters put up on the bus shelter walls and cleaned it. Bus shelter was given a face lift by re-painting.
Daily awareness: Since last 3 months’ volunteers of Swacch Mangaluru are visiting hundred households/shops every day. In the month of January about 20 teams of volunteers undertook awareness campaigning by visiting door to door distributing handbills. Sri Umanath Kotekar coordinated the drive. MRPL sponsored this drive.
A media release has been received from the organizers.
NB Contact – Swami Ekagamyanandaji, Convener, Ramakrishna Mission Swacchata Abhiyan at 9448353162 for more details,