Governors, chief ministers, film artists and celebrities along with voluntary organisations joined the countrywide drive
New Delhi: Coastal cleanup and sea beach cleaning took place across all the sea beaches along 7,500 km long coastline of India with lakhs of volunteers participating to commemorate “International Coastal Clean Up Day” that is observed all over the world on the third Saturday of every September.
While governors, chief ministers, film artists and celebrities along with voluntary organisations joined the countrywide drive, at Juhu beach, Mumbai, Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Governor of Maharashtra in beach clean-up activities along with thousands of volunteers from all walks of life. BJP MP Poonam Mahajan and several celebrities as well as NGOs also joined the campaign. A especially composed video song sung by leading playback singers of Bollywood was also played on the occasion.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh said, in India, the longest and largest beach cleaning campaign in the world lasting 75 days culminated with governors, chief ministers, union ministers, MPs, MLAs, celebrities including from film and sports world, civil society groups joining the campaign with overwhelming enthusiasm at important beaches in the country.
Singh said, the International Coastal CleanUp Day this year coincides with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday celebrated as “Sewa Divas”, which has doubled the spirit of volunteers and they have surpassed the target to remove 1,500 ton of single use plastic garbage from the sea coasts through clean-up drive across the country. The Minister informed that over one lakh volunteers have registered on Eco Mitram App alone.
Governor of Goa PS Sreedharan Pillai, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, and Shripad Yesso Naik, Union Minister of State for Tourism, took part in the beach cleaning campaign in South and North Goa with thousands of young volunteers forming a huge human chain.
Governor of Telangana, Tamilisai Soundararajan took the youth brigade to cleaning mission at Puducherry beach. Governor of Mizoram K Hari Babu led the campaign in Vizag beach in Andhra Pradesh, while L Murugan, Union MoS, Information and Broadcasting joined the event at Chennai. Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala joined the clean-up operation at Jafrabad, Amreli.
