They are the soldiers of Swacch Bharat Abhyaan, wearing green T-Shirts and all charged-up to swing into action. Over 50 members of this team started their stir against untidiness on Sunday, 6am. The area they chose to clean was from Shanimahatma Temple to Govt Bus Depot on both sides of the double road. The joint effort of Chintamani Municipality and the citizen group vigorously worked to sweep away all the garbage, unwanted rocks, weeds, debris, etc. and made way for the pedestrians on the side-walk. The nearby shop owners were made to pick-up the trash their businesses had generated and were dumped into the municipal garbage vehicles. At 10:30 am when they finished their cleaning activity for the day they had cleared over 25 tractor loads of trash. A perfect example of extraordinary work the partnership of governance(municipality)-citizen groups could do.
Mr Krishna Reddy, the initiator of this activity, vehemently said "This is not an individual effort. We started this cleaning activity from the Hanuman Temple in Kannampalli with a group of morning walking friends. Every first Sunday of the month is dedicated for this activity. Now the strength of volunteers have grown to nearly 100. Bigger the better. With more scribes involving and spreading awareness "Swacch Chintamani" is not a distant dream."
Mr Babu, the municipal health inspector, said that the municipality wants to spread this kind of activity to all wards of Chintamani. And the municipality would be more than willing to support in this regard.
Their next activity is on Sunday the1st February at 6 am starting from KSRTC Bus Depot towards Raghavendra Mutt. Please do join in!
