Mangaluru: Ramakrishna Mission carries out 22nd Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan

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Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 12 Oct 2015: Ramakrishna Mission carried out 22nd Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan from Jyoti Circle – Balmatta – Collector’s Gate area on Sunday October 11 from 7.30am to 10.30am.
 
 
The local corporator A C Vinayraj and Professor Ramanath B, principal of Government Women’s College, Balmatta, here flagged-off the drive in the presence of Swami Jitakamanandai and MLC Captain Ganesh Karnik here on Sunday morning.

 

 

More than 450 volunteers, devotees and well-wishers of the Ramakrishna Mission, NSS students and Indian Red Cross Society members, students of Government Women’s College, Balmatta, students of Government First Grade College, Car Street, here, a few students of Sahyadri Engineering College participated in the drive.

 
Several posters that were stuck to the compound walls of the Government Women’s College and entrance gate were removed and the walls were painted giving a new look. The grills of the college gate were also painted thus giving it a facelift.
 
The construction remnants and materials that were dumped since long near the Collector’s Gate and the Balmatta College were removed with the help of the earthmovers and the ground was leveled, thus giving space for public utility.
 
The sign board on the Arya Samaja road which was worn out was repainted and given a facelift.
 
Volunteers also distributed the Swacch Mangaluru Awareness pamphlets among the residents and public of the Balmatta and Collector’s Gate area.

 

 
This Abhiyan was preceded by Swacch Manas programme held at Ramakrishna mutt here on Saturday October 10 evening. Swami Jitakamanandai, president of the mutt addressed about 80 students assembled about the different dimensions of Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan after briefing them about the Ashram, its activities and its role in the Swacch Bharath Abhiyan.
 
Mahesh K B, Sheshappa, Professor Vinita Rai, Shashikala, Professor Radhakrishna, Shubhoday Alva, Umanath Kotekar, Suresh Shetty and other eminent people participated in the drive.  
 
MRPL, principal patron of the event sponsored the drive.