Mangaluru: Ramakrishna Mission carries out 7th week of cleanliness drive

Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 30 Jan 2017: Ramakrishna Mission, here carried out 7th week of 10 cleanliness drives of the 400 Abhiyans, in 10 different locations across the city on Sunday, January 29.

 

Car Street – The devotees of Gokarna mutt and residents of Venkataramana Towers carried out the cleanliness drive in Bhavanthi Street and Nandadeepa Street. Chandramathi Rao and Sudhakar Pai jointly flagged off the drive. The compound walls in Nandadeepa Road were cleaned along with the road and the adjoining drains. A P Acharya, Anil Nayak, Purushottam Shenoy and more than 60 members actively participated in the drive. MLC Captain Ganesh Karnik, mentor of Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan visited more than 6 places where the drives were carried out and motivated the volunteers.

Yemmekere – Members of Monkey Stand group took up the drive in Yemmekere area. Suvith flagged off the drive. The volunteers cleaned the Yemmekere main road and Mangaladevi temple roads. They removed the posters stuck on the walls. The students from Government First Grade College, Car Street participated in the drive. Dilraj Alva coordinated the volunteers.

 

 

Chilimbi – The Inmates of BCM Women’s Hostel took up the drive in Chilimbi locality. Chandrashekar Kadri flagged off the drive. The students cleaned the road leading from Chilimbi to Urwa Stores along with the road divider. They also cleaned both sides of the road and the bus shelter in that area. Subraya Nayak and Vittaldas Prabhu coordinated the team.

Mulihithlu – Members of Sri Amba Maheshwari Bhajana mandir carried out the drive in Mulihithlu area. Sri U Madhava & Sri Naveen Pujari flagged off the drive. They resumed the work of converting a garbage dumping place to a small garden in the tailery road. Taking help of masons they are also constructing small platform. Some volunteers under the guidance of Smt. Jayanthi Kamalaksha & Akhila paid door to door visit in the area and created awareness about garbage disposal.  

 

Babugudde – Members of Team Inspiration and Amrita Sanjeevini carried out the drive in Babugudde area. Madan flagged off the drive. One team cleaned the Nandigudda – Attavara Road and another took up cleanliness work on Babugudda - Attavara road. Sahil and others cleaned the bus shelter in the area and gave it facelift by painting and beautifying.  Madan himself actively involved in the drive was seen inspiring other volunteers in the team.

 

Pandeshwara – The employees of Sri Ram Transport Finance cleaned the area in front of Fire Station and the roads in front of BSNL Telephone Exchange. K V Sathyanarayana flagged off the drive. They removed the garbage lying by the side of the road with the help of tipper and cleared the adjoining drains.

 

Merlapadavu – The students of Srinivasa Institute of Technology & local residents took up the cleanliness drive in Merlapadavu. Professor Harshavardhan and local industrialist Jayaram flagged off the drive. Drive was carried out from 7.30am to 10.00am. Naveen Kottari, Sachin, Jagadish and more than 60 volunteers actively participated in the drive.

 

Kumpala – The members of Swacch Kotekar team along with the members of Navachetana Friends Club took up the drive in Kumpala area. Nagesh A and S S Nayak flagged off the drive in Kumapala Bypass Road. Rajesh Ucchil, President of Someshwara gram panchayat guided the volunteers in cleaning the area from bypass through the roads of Kumpala along with the adjoining drains. Mohan Pai Kumpala, B N Tailor, Balakrishna Poojary and several others – women and children actively participated in the drive.

 

Attavara – The members of Chakrapani temple committee and locals carried out the drive in Attavara area. Devadas Kottari and Rajesh Attavar flagged off the drive. The silt accumulated in the Chakrapani Temple Lake was cleared using the JCB. The area in front of Attavara KMC was also cleaned. Akshith coordinated the team.

 

Yekkur – Hindu Yuva Sene & nandadeepa Mahila Mandali members took up the cleanliness drive in Yekkur area. Sandeep Shetty and Tejaswini flagged off the drive. Yekkur 1st Road was cleaned. Thanuja, Vanitha, Renuka Shetty, Praveen Yekkur and others actively participated in the drive.

 

MRPL and Nitte Education Trust are patronizing this 3rd phase of Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan.