Mangaluru: Ramakrishna Mission carries out 5th Swacchata Abhiyan in city
Bellevision Media Network
Mangaluru, 04 Dec 2017: Ramakrishna Mission carried out fifth week of Swachata Abhiyan, here, on Sunday, December 3 morning.
Mangalore Senior Citizens Council secretary chartered accountant Nagaraj Sharma flagged off the drive in the presence of Swami Jitakamananda, in frontt of Subramanya Sadan, Karangalpady, here, on Sunday at 7.30am after Vedic chanting.
Subramanya Sabha president M R Vasudev and Srikant Rao, others were present.
More than 150 volunteers took an active part in the drive that lasted for nearly 4 hours starting from 7.30am. Cleanliness drive was started in the road opposite Subramanya Sabha and was carried out at Kodialguthu junction and Bejai Church roadsides. Suraj and team of volunteers cleaned the drains and removed 4 loads of dirt and garbage accumulated on the roadsides. Sand and stones strewn on the road which was posing problem to motorists were removed. Professor Sheshappa Amin, Ramkumar Bekal led the team of volunteers in the cleanliness drive. The local corporator Prakash Salian actively participated in the drive. Dilraj Alva and Umanath Kotekar coordinated the drive.
Distribution of Awareness literature
Volunteers visited several homes, door to door, distributing Awareness handbills and urged the locals to keep their surroundings clean. Students of S M Kushe School under the guidance of Prathim Kumar along with members of Nivedita Balaga visited hundreds of houses creating awareness.
Renovation of Name boards
About 5 name boards in the Kodialguthu road were faded and were not visible posing problem to newcomers and pedestrians. Volunteers of the Abhiyan cleaned the boards and repainted them.
Daily Awareness Campaign
Ramakrishna Mission is carrying out Daily awareness Campaign for nearly 2 hours every day. Daily minimum of 100 households and shops are visited by the volunteers. All the shopkeepers and households are urged to keep their surroundings clean and cooperate in Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan. Till date, nearly 2500 households have been visited by 24 teams for the last 24 days. Ramakrishna Mission targets to reach out to 30 thousand households in the 4th phase of the Abhiyan.
Swacch Manas Abhiyan
Swacch Manas Abhiyans are being carried out in nearly 100 schools in and around Mangalore by a team of trained resource persons. Ranjan Bellarpady is coordinating the initiative. About 100 Swacchata Awareness talks were organized in 100 schools in the November month. Swacchata Spardha will be carried out in December month in those 100 schools. Nearly 10000 students have been registered as Swacchata Senanis.
MRPL is supporting these drives through sponsorships.