Lake cleaning campaign 9th January 2012
Satisfied with the plastic ban campaign the MVSR URMI team headed forward with the same spirits to the next peculiar activity. With the sense of responsibility to our environment and the feeling that we owe our part in maintaining the same, the team took up the spades and went on to the field. Prior to which there has been a meeting with the GPJ( Gram panchayat jillelguda) regarding the help and permissions required to clean the lake in the same locality which is observed to be over dumped with plastic bags and non decomposable garbage.
The local people have been facing a lot of problems due to this. The URMI team appealed the GPJ secretary to provide us with a good number of workers. The idea was that they are the ones who are supposed to maintain the healthy condition of the lake which due to inevitable reasons was not the case. And so our team made it a point that they take their responsibility more seriously and henceforth the motive is sustained. On the day of the activity the members of URMI MVSR in their apt outfits reached the arena and laid their part very efficiently in cleaning the lake to a satisfactory level. The workers and the team members were supplied with face masks and gloves. There happens to be a temple on the lake bed where in people from the nearby areas come and offer their prayers along with their household garbage. The team played its vital role in enlightening the locals about the ill effects and consequences of the same. The plastic bags and accessories were sent to the respective dump yards in the vehicles provided by the GPJ and the remaining decomposable garbage was piled up and disposed. As a part of awareness and caution banners and ply boards with an URMI logo were put up on the beds. There was a sense of gratitude and happiness observed among the locals. Fortunately our event also got the media coverage and the news was published in EENADU and ANDHRAJYOTI daily newspapers dated 10/1/12. |
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