Mangaluru: The 6th week’s drive of Ramakrishna Mission Swachata Abhiyan was flagged off on 10th December 2017 at 7.30 am by Sri Vinayraj, MCC Corporator & Sri Sunil Shetty, President of Jeppu Bunts’ Association in the presence of Swami Jitakamanandaji at Jyoti Circle & Balmatta Main Road. Sri Vinayraj addressed the gathering and appreciated the initiative.

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Sri Shivakumar & several others were present on the occasion and joined the Swamiji with broom to clean the area. More than 200 volunteers actively participated in the drive.

Cleanliness Drive: All the 200 volunteers were divided into 6 groups. Members of Jeppu Bunts’ Association cleaned the area from KMC hospital to Collectors Gate along with the footpaths & road dividers. Students of St. Aloysius College under the guidance of Lecturer Smt. Premalatha Shetty cleaned both sides of the road from Jyoti circle to Light House hill.

Sri Vittaldas Prabhu & Sri Shubhoday Alva led a group of volunteers each in cleaning the roads leading from Jyoti Circle to Hampankatta area along with the adjoining places.

Big heaps of sand in the Balmatta road were removed with the help of JCB and the place was levelled creating space for parking of vehicles. More than 3 tippers of sand, stones and dirt were cleared from the location.

Beautification: A triangular area near Jyoti circle was filled up with filth & dirt. Members of Hindu Warriors removed this heap and have done a minor repair of the road. The steps used by the pedestrians were worn out and needed repair.

Using labourers, these steps have been repaired. Sri BHV Prasad, GGM of MRPL actively volunteered in this drive. Another group of volunteers painted the bus shelter and the railings by the side of the road. Sri Sujith Pratap and others cleaned the footpath and the bus shelter in the Jyoti area and painted the railings giving them a face lift.

Awareness Drive: A team of volunteers visited shops and urged the shopkeepers to keep their surroundings clean. While the cleanliness drive was on, a person threw garbage in the cleaned area and the volunteers got the place cleaned by him. More than 200 illegal flex banners & buntings were removed from the light poles in the road dividers.

Sri Souraj led the group of volunteers. Students of St. Aloysius college visited nearly 200 households in the area and distributed awareness literature and urged them to keep their surroundings clean.

Drive went on from 7.30 am till 10 am. Nearly 20 members of Yuvashakti Yuvaka Sangha of Kayarthadka village participated in the drive. All the volunteers were provided tiffin in the premises of Balmatta Women’s College. Sri Dilraj Alva & Sri Umanath Kotekar coordinated the 6th week’s cleanliness drive.

Swacch Puttur Phase 2: Second phase of Swacch Puttur, guided by Ramakrishna Mission, was flagged off by Town municipal member Sri Rajesh Bannur & Sri Pulu Ishwara Bhat. Smt. Johar Nissar & many others were present. Sri Krishna Upadhyaya welcomed the gathering. Sri Shyam Sudarshan Bhat & G Krishna coordinated the programme. Cleanliness drive was carried out in mini Vidhana Soudha area.

MRPL is supporting these drives through sponsorships. We have attached few snaps of the drive along with this report. We kindly request you to publish the report along with photos and participate in our humble initiative of Swacch Bharath Abhiyan.