Mangaluru: Ramakrishna Mission 2nd Phase of Swacch Mangaluru inaugurated

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Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 4 Oct 2015: Second Phase of Swacch Mangaluru by Ramakrishna Mission was inaugurated by Swami Muktidananda, trustee, Ramakrishna mutt and Mission, Ashram, Mysuru during a function held at Karangalpady, here on Sunday October 4 at 7.30am.
 
Kumar H, managing director of MRPL flagged off the 21st Cleanliness Drive.

Swami Veereshananda Saraswati, president of Ramakrishna Vivekananda Ashram, Tumakuru, MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik, Manjunath Bhandary, chairman of Sahyadri Group of Institutions, Dr Jeevaraj Sorake, Prakash Salian, Premananda Shetty and other eminent men were present on the occasion.
 
On this occasion, Dilraj Alva submitted the 20 weeks’ Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan report and video presentation of the 20 weeks’ drives to MRPL.
 
Renovation of Auto Stand at Karangalpady

On this occasion, Auto stand at Karangalpady was renovated, cleaned and beautified with new roof and stand of corrugated sheets. It has also boards containing the messages of awareness on Swacch Mangaluru. This renovated auto stand was inaugurated by cutting ribbon by Kumar, managing director of MRPL.
 
Renovation of pedestal around banyan tree
 
The existing pedestal around the big banyan tree at Karangalpady here was dilapidated and pedestrians always were ashamed of the pathetic condition of the place. Volunteers of Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan noticed this and since 3-4 days started repairing and renovating the pedestal and today the work was completed which was lauded by one and all of the locality.
 
About 400 volunteers
About 400 volunteers, devotees and well-wishers of the Ashram took part in the 21st Drive. The volunteers were from different institutes - Sahyadri Engineering College, Nitte Group of Colleges, Government First Grade College, Car Street, here and employees of MRPL etc. these were constituted into 8 groups who took up the cleaning work.

 

 

Seminar on Swacch Bharath
 
This programme was followed by a seminar on Swacch Bharath from 10.00am to 2.00pm. It was inaugurated by Swami Muktidananda, president of Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysuru. Kumar H, managing director of MRPL, Mangaluru was the chief guest.

Swami Veereshanand Saraswati, Professor Nandan Prabhu and Professor Raghotham Rao interacted with the delegates on various dimensions of Swacch Bharath.