Ahmedabad : Nearly 20,000 Amdavadis have vowed to join the Sabarmati river clean-up drive, that begins on Wednesday, led by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. The project is one of the measures to be undertaken by the administration to mark World Environment Day.The volunteers – comprising social organisations, civic workers, corporates and NGOs – will pick up plastic and other waste from the polluted river.

The city’s mayor Bijal Patel and municipal commissioner Vijay Nehra said the drive will continue till 9 June. “After the river has been cleared of all the waste, only treated sewage water will be discharged into it,” said Patel on Tuesday. A total of 18 crore litres of treated sewage water is expected to be let into the river every day.