Mangaluru: Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu acknowledges voluntary cleanliness campaign of Ramakrishna

Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 16 Feb 2016: Ramakrishna Mission here carried out their 40th Swacch mangaluru Abhiyan in the Mangaladevi area on Sunday February 14 from 7.30am to 10.00am.

 

A small stage programme was also organized at the venue. Swami Srikantananda, president of Ramakrishna mutt, Pune and Prabhakar Bhat Kalladka, convener of Sri Rama Vidya Kendra, Kalladka were the chief guests.

 

Swami Jitakamananda, president of Ramakrishna mutt, here welcomed the guests. MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik briefed about the 40 weeks’ Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan. Swami Srikantanandaji recited a poem he had written on Swacch Bharath and lauded the efforts of Ramakrishna Mission in this regard and equated keeping our motherland clean with the worship of the Lord. Sri Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat appreciated the initiative taken by Ramakrishna Mission in this regard and applauded the sustained and dedicated efforts of the volunteers in making it successful.

 

 

The drive was flagged-off by Swami Srikantananda and Prabhakar Bhat Kalladka followed by the stage programme in the presence of Swami Jitakamanand, MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik, M R Vasudev, Satish Rao, Prasad of MRPL, Suresh Shetty and others.

 

About 800 volunteers were divided into 11 groups and were given information and sent to different areas for cleaning:

 

1.     Employees from MCF under their director Prabhakar Rao cleaned the area from Marnamikatta to Nandigudda.

2.     Employees of HDFC Bank under Prashanth Uparangala cleaned the area from Cascia High school to Marnamikatta

3.     Volunteers from Hindu Warriors Whatsapp Group under the leadership of Shivu Puttur Near Marnamikatta Railway Bridge

4.     Members of Kalki Manava Seva Samiti under Ganesh Bangera and Manohar Prabhu cleaned the Mangalanagar area.

5.     Students from Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management under the leadership of Srilatha, lecturer cleaned the Mangaladevi Road.

6.     Members of I T Dealers association cleaned the area from Mangaladevi Temple towards Ramakrishna Math.

7.     Members of Nivedita Balaga under the guidance of Vijayalakshmi cleaned the Mangaladevi Temple area.

8.     Members of Bhagini Samaj under the guidance of Vajra Rao cleaned the Jeppu area.

9.     Members of Stree Shakti Group under the leadership of Rathna Alva cleaned the Jeppu Market area.

10.  Members of Art of Living under the leadership of Sadashiv Kamath cleaned the Mangaladevi Car Street.

11.  Students from Government First Grade College, Car Street under the leadership of Sheshappa Amin, lecturer and Mahesh K B collected the heaps of garbage from all these areas and loaded them in the truck for segregation and disposal.

 

Dilraj Alva, Sujith Pratap, Vittaldas Prabhu, Premananda Shetty, Harish Achar, Ramkumar Bekal, Shubhoday Alva, Umanath Kotekar and several other eminent persons were present.

 

After the cleanliness drive all the volunteers had their breakfast in Ramakrishna mutt. Later, in the Thanks giving ceremony about 40 institutional representatives who joined in the Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan were recognized and presented with memento as token of respect by union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu.

 

With this the first phase of 40 Abhiyans drew to an end. In the second phase about 400 cleanliness drives will be planned and executed in different parts of the city.

 

Volunteers also distributed handbills on Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan to generate awareness among the locals in the area.

 

MRPL, principal patron of the event sponsored the drive.