Ramakrishna Mission’s Swacchata Abhiyan continues with much Vigour
Mangaluru: Ramakrishna Mission carried out 15th Week’s Swacchata Abhiyan drive in Falnir area on Sunday, the 11th February 2018. The Drive was flagged off jointly by Prof. K Raghothama Rao, Chairman, Manas Centre for Training, Bangalore & Dr Nandita Shenoy in the divine presence of Swami Sarvasthanandaji, Designate Head of Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre, United Kingdom & Swami Jitakamanandaji at Avery Junction at 7:30 am. Both the Swamijis addressed the 400 + volunteers assembled there and motivated them. Captain Ganesh Karnik, Mentor of the Abhiyan welcomed the volunteers. Mohammad Shameem, Masa Hiro, Dr Rajendra Prasad & several others were present on the occasion.
Cleanliness Drive: About 400 volunteers assembled were divided into 8 groups.
Members of Mangalore Ladies Beauty Association under the guidance of Babitha Shetty & Meena D’Souza cleaned the left side of the road and the adjoining drains from Avery junction to Milagres.
Students of Sahyadri College of Engineering under Smt. Sreelatha Ullal & Ankith Kumar cleaned Dr A S Coelho Road leading towards Jyothi circle.
NSS volunteers of St. Aloysius College under the guidance of Coordinator Premalatha & Arjun Prakash cleaned the Don Bosco road and removed the overgrown weeds and grass on the roadsides.
Citizens of Yekkur & members of Ayyappa Bhajana Mandira cleaned the area from Avery Junction to Attavara. Prashanth Yekkur, Jayaprakash Yekkur & many others took part.
Students of Kannada Sangha of St. Aloysius College under the guidance of Smt. Sudha Kumari & Arati Shanbhogue cleaned the right side of the road from Avery junction to Milagres and removed the plastic waste lying there since long.
Students of Govt. First Grade College, car Street under the guidance of Lecturer Mohaboob Sab cleaned the road leading towards Highland.
The students of Sahaya team of St. Aloysius College visited homes door to door in Falnir region distributing handbills on awareness and hygiene. They also appealed to the people to reduce, reuse and recycle and segregate garbage before disposal. Meenakumari, lecturer of the college guided the students.
Erection of Road divider: Swacch Mangaluru volunteers removed the barricades in Avery junction and the dirt & garbage lying under them. As the old barricades were occupying more space and were posing problems to vehicles, they were replaced with Iron rods with reflectors to serve the purpose. Sandeep Kodikal, Prakash Garodi, Vijay Shetty, Preetham and many others youths actively helped.
The bus shelter was given facelift: The bus shelter in Falnir region was dumped with garbage. People were hesitant to use the shelter. Today the shelter was thoroughly cleaned and beautified with new paint. Dirt and mud lying in front of the shelter were removed using JCB. Kodange Balakrishna Naik, Ramya P D, Priya Y S, Girish N G, Umar Farooq & several others helped the volunteers.
All volunteers were served tiffin in front of Motimahal. MRPL sponsored this drive.
Swacch Ambassadors: About 500 students from 100 schools have been selected as Swacch Ambassadors and they have been given the oath in the Ashrama on 9th February along with the necessary training. On 11th February, about 50 resource persons were given training and orientation to conduct a workshop on the workbook, Swacchata Manthana in 108 schools covering 10750 students in the month of February.
Swami Chidambarananda (Chief Convener)
Swami Ekagamyanandaji, Convener
Ramakrishna Mission Swacchata Abhiyan
Tel: 9448353162 for more details
shame on MCC
Where is MLA Lobo? How come he has ignored this campaign for 2 years?