Sarva Dharma Swacch Grama Abhiyan Marks 71st Independence Day in Kuntalnagar
Udupi: As many as 200 volunteers from several communities and organizations gathered for the ”Cleanliness Drive” on the occasion of India’s 71st Independence Day Celebrations. This was organized to create awareness about the need of maintaining a clean and green environment. It was not just awareness but people got into action for about 3 hours.
The faithful of St Antony Church, Kuntalnagar; Sarvajanika Ganeshotsava Samithi, Dendoorkatte; Manipura Gram Panchayat; Jumma Masjid, Manipura; Sarvadharma Sauharda Samithi, Kuntalnagar; CSI Chruch, Manipura; Rotary Club, Manipura; Navodaya Mitra Mandali, Manipura; Dharmasthala Grameena Abhivridhi Sangha and Narayanaguru Mitra Mandali took part in this unique Abhiyaan.
Fr Denis D’Sa parish priest of Kunthalnagar administered the oath “Nava Bharatha Sankalpa”: to make the local gram panchayat plastic free, waste free, hunger free, corruption free, terror free, communal free and to make this place a community of love and respect for all faiths, people, culture and language. All those present took the oath.
Addressing the gathering Fr Denis said that when our hearts, minds and environment are clean then certainly it will lead to a clean and hatred free society. Heart and mind are the sources of all good or evil. Let’s first keep them clean, everything else will fall in line by itself. He also said that God and our ancestors have given us this mother earth, our common home (Bharath Matha) and we have an obligation to hand it over to the next generation as it has been handed over to us, clean, green and pollution free. Let us resolve to do so, right now, he added.
The Abhiyan started from Dendoorkatte to Manipura; Dendoorkatte to Kuntalnagar and Dendoorkatte to Kalmanje. The route itself was inter-religious and passed through the Panchayat Office, temple, Church, CSI Church, Masjid and the Rotary Club.
Geetha Rama – Manipura Panchayat President; Sakarama Shetty, President, Sarvajanika Ganeshotsava Samithi, Moofer Hamid, President Jumma Masjid; Joseph Kunder, member CSI; Advocate Krishnaraj Acharya; Gururaj Bhat; Ida Gibba D’Souza, Mohammed Shareef; Asha Shekar; Annappa Poojary, Raghu Poojary, Chandrashekar Salian, Rotary President, Vincent D’Souza, Vice President, Kuntalnagar Church and 200 volunteers from all communities were present.
The beauty of this programme was that the volunteers were from all communities and all worked with one mind and heart.
