Maharashtra’s BJP state secretary, Sanjay
Pandey and his NGO Nanaji Deshmukh Pratishthan launched Clean your own street. He
was supported by Afroz Shah, Randeep Hooda & Tanisha Mukherjee.
Today Maharashtra’s BJP state secretary and
the Chairman of Nanaji Deshmukh Pratishthan have initiated a unique drive,
‘Clean your own street’.
More than 100 volunteers took to cleaning
Versova beach and the streets of Versova.
Along with the volunteers, The NGO had engaged 2 JCB’s and 2 dumpers to help
cleaning the beach in an efficient manner. After the cleanup, the collected
trash was taken to Deonar dumping ground. Volunteers were working along with
the officials and cleaners of the BMC, a well known activist and Champion of
beach cleaning; Afroz Shah, Canada based International NGO; Khalsa aid, actor
Randeep Hooda and hundreds of school children.
Sanjay Pandey’s NGO is very active in water
conservation programs across Maharashtra. He said that an ecosystem is the
interaction between a community of living organisms and their environment, in
order to safeguard one we have to protect another. It is unfortunate that
beaches are filled with plastic waste. Marine animals are dying because of
plastic waste and one of the main reasons of climate change. Our beaches are
the bridge between our world and the ocean.It is necessary to keep our beaches
clean if we hope to keep our oceans clean. Beaches are fragile environments. By
keeping this environment trash free we help protect and preserve marine life.
Each individual can better the ocean's ecosystem by playing their part in
keeping the beaches clean. The easiest way to do this is to simply pick up the
trash and throw it in a dustbin.
After the beach clean up, Volunteers moved
to the streets of versova and helped BMC officials in cleaning the streets.
When asked, Sanjay said that keeping our
streets, sidewalks, and green spaces safe and clean for everyone to enjoy is
our priority and duty. Clean your own street is a drive where we are appealing
to people to not litter streets, to use dustbins even to throw a needle, use
doggie litter bags to pick up dog poop.
Animal waste can breed bacteria that is harmful to living things in our
creeks and oceans. They also cause illnesses to people who swim in the waters.
Help us bag the waste before it is carried down into the storm drain and out
onto our beaches and ocean.
The NGO will be doing street plays for the
awareness of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Like we have community or colony security
guards, similarly every colony should have their own street cleaners also along
with BMC cleaners. There should be volunteers from the societies to clean their
own street. All the research shows that behaviour changes based on environmental
changes, and by keeping a block clean, we will get people to view their
environment differently and treat it accordingly.
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