Students & citizens do their bit for Mumbai
Mumbai: Thousands of citizens, on Thursday, joined the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in massive clean-up operation across the citys many beaches, creeks and lakes.
We especially got a huge response from school and college children. The BMC vehicles visited different neighbourhoods in the morning to collect the offerings from volunteers, said a senior civic official.
Yesha Gala, a student of SVKM UPG College of Management at Vile Parle, said his institution had tied up with an NGO, United Way of Mumbai, and around 150 volunteers cleaned up a 3 km stretch at Juhu Beach.
More than 700 citizens from the Times Green Ganesha Teama joint initiative by The Times of India, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and Tata Housing Development Corporation Limitedtook part in the cleanup operations at Juhu Beach and Girgaum Chowpatty.
Citizens working with BMC officials were a common sight on Thursday. Students of Nagindas Khandwala College in Malad were also part of the initiative.
Another thousand students from the Children Movement for Civic Awareness (CMCA) took on Powai Lake. The students are learning about the harmful effects of plastic and plaster of Paris. They have also pledged to create awareness in their neighbourhoods and do their bit for the environment, said Vinodini Lulla, the chief co-ordinator of CMCA, Mumbai.
* SWEEPING CHANGES: Citizens lend a hand to the clean-up drive
* SWEEPING CHANGES: Citizens lend a hand to the clean-up drive