Mangaluru: City based not-for-profit organisation Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation has been conferred with the prestigious ‘India Youth Fund Award’ by UN-Habitat, Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation. The award was granted for APD’s Smart Swaccha Mangaluru (SSM) project for SWM during the Young Social Innovators Conclave 2016 held in Mumbai on November 15.

APD Foundation’s founder Abdullah A. Rehman received the award certificate from Padmini Somani, Director, Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation. The award also includes funding of the awarded project of up to Rs. 8 Lakhs.

Mangaluru’s APD Foundation was one among seven recipients to be selected for the award out of the 550 applicants from across the country. The other recipients are: Awaaj Jan Kalyan Samhiti, Bhopal, MicroX Foundation, Delhi, Green Cross India, Trivandrum, Born2Win Social Welfare Trust, Chennai, Shaishav Gujarat and Friends Union for Energizing Lives, Pune in different categories.

SSM is a programme to achieve segregation at source through targeted campaigns, workshops and training programmes. It is executed side by side with APD’s current IEC campaign which is conducted along with Antony Waste Handling Cell Pvt. Ltd.