Mangaluru: Ramakrishna Mission carries out Swacchata Abhiyan at Valencia-Gorigudda locality

Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 18 Mar: Ramakrishna Mission carried out Swacchata Abhiyan in Valencia Gorigudda area on Sunday, March 17 from 7.30am to 10.30am.

 

The Shramadan was jointly flagged off at 7.30 am near Valencia church by Fr James D’Souza and Anil Lobo, chairman of MCC Bank.

 

Speaking on the occasion, Fr James said, ‘The nature around us is a gift from God to us, hence its our bounden duty to protect it at all cost. Already we are ruining this beautiful nature. We should stop it and promote such activities as this Abhiyan so that we can pass on nature to our future generation. I congratulate Ramakrishna Mission for its sustained initiatives in this regard and urge everyone to join their hands in making it successful.’

 

 

Anil Lobo said, ‘Cleanliness should become a part of our daily habit. As we clean our body daily with due care so should we keep our surroundings clean. The feeling that this house, city, environment belongs to me will greatly help in the success of this Abhiyan.’

 

Fr Arun Lobo, Fr Joswin Praveen, Kudroli Ganesh, Patrick D’Souza, Manohar Shetty, Lizzy Pinto, Radhakrishna Padil, Prof Francis Crasta and others were present on this occasion.

Shramadan: Members of Team Swacch Yekkur cleaned the area in front of Gorigudda crematorium. Heaps of sand and stones were removed using JCB and tipper. Drains were overfilling with garbage and they were removed and thoroughly cleaned. By keeping pots with flower plants the entire spot has been given a facelift. Students of Nitte Physiotherapy College under the leadership of Dr Dhanesh Kumar cleaned the road adjoining Valencia church and the footpaths. Sandip Kodical and others removed the heaps of garbage lying beside Valencia circle. The spot was levelled and pots of flower plants were kept to dissuade public from littering in the spot. The stone slabs lying in the road obstructing the passers-by and vehicular movement in the IV Cross Road in Gorigudda were cleared. Senior volunteers cleaned the Gorigudda road. Dilraj Alva guided the volunteers.

 

Door to Door visit: Volunteers visited several houses from door to door in Sooterpet, Gorigudda & Valencia area reaching out to about 300 households urging them to keep their area clean. Aniruddh Nayak, Suresh Shetty and others guided the volunteers. Each household was urged to manage their waste and help in the Abhiyan by keeping their areas free from littering.

Renovation of direction boards: Several direction boards in Mangalore have faded letters and are not serving the purpose. Under the Swacchata Abhiyan initiative such boards are being repainted with beautiful fonts helping the public. Today the boards in Valencia right 2nd cross, Gorigudda right II Cross, Gorigudda right IV Cross were repainted. The work of fixing new seats in service bus stand at State Bank which was started a few weeks ago was resumed this week too. A few seats were fixed and painted thus benefitting the passengers waiting for the buses. Uday K P, Lokesh Kottara and many other volunteers joined in this.

Swacch Soch Seminars: Seven Swacch Soch seminars were organised in the last week in several colleges. Seminars were organised at SDM Inst. Of Technology, Ujire, Nitte Physiotherapy College at Deralakatte, University evening College at Hampankatta, SDM IIT college at Venur, Government First Grade College at Punjalkatte, Carmel Degree College at Bantwal, Government B Ed College, Mangaluru. Shreelatha U A, Prof Sheshappa Amin, Nivedita Kamath, Saritha Shetty, Captian Gopinath Rao were resource persons. Ranjan Bellarpady guided the team. Till date, 48 Swacch Soch Seminars have been organised.

 

MRPL and Nitte institutions are sponsoring these drives.