Mangaluru: Ramakrishna Mission carries out 34th Swacch Abhiyan at Kunjathbail

Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 11 Jan 2016: Ramakrishna Mission, here carried out 34th Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan at Kunjathbail and Marakada locality here on Sunday January 10 from 7.30am to 10.30am.

 

A small stage programme was organized at the Marakada Government School on the theme, Swacch Kunjathbail for Swacch Mangaluru.

 

Swami JItakamananda, president, Ramakrishan mutt, Mangaluru presided the meeting and highlighted the significance of cleanliness and its awareness in the public.

 

Local corporators, Harinath and Mohammad jointly flagged-off the 34th Swacch Mangaluru drive in the presence of Swami and other eminent men.

 

 

K Radhakrishna, former principal, Government  First Grade College (GFGC), Car Street here, Tara Rao, Vittaldas Prabhu, students of SVS College, Bantwal under the leadership of Bharathi Bhat, lecturer, volunteers from Nivedita Balaga, students from GFGC, Car Street and other participated in the drive. Professor Mahesh K B, Satish Bhat, Sujith Pratap, Dr Satish Rao, Ramkumar Bekal, Suresh Shetty, Dilraj Alva and several other eminent persons were present.

 

Students of Government School and Noble School at Marakada too took an active part in the Abhiyan. About 400 volunteers participated in the Abhiyan.

 

Volunteers under the leadership of Swami andi Vasanth Kumar Perla of AIR cleaned Kunjathbail bus stand. Posters stuck on the walls of the bus shelters were removed and the walls were repainted giving a fresh new look.

 

The roads, foot paths and the road dividers in the area were thoroughly cleaned by the volunteers off the weeds. Compound walls were also cleaned.

 

Large vacant land in the premises of Marakada Government School was neglected for years together and the heavily grown weeds and long grass formed a nice shelter for serpents and other animals thus threatening the students of the school. On request from the school development board the area was fully cleared and cleaned using grass cutting machine, earthmovers and dumper trucks.

 

Volunteers distributed handbills on Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan to about 1,000 households to generate awareness among the locals in the area.

 

MRPL, principal patron of the event sponsored the drive.