Pune (Voice News Service) : A team of over 650 volunteers, PMC , nine NGOs and seven Gram panchayats teamed up to collect a total of 50 tons of dry waste. The cleanliness drive was a part of ‘My Wari, Swach Wari’ movement initiated by ‘Adar Poonawalla Clean City Initiative’(APCCI) to help clean Palkhi route covering a total 125 km of roads from Pune city till Saswad and Yawat .
The cleanliness drive is conducted every year where the roads are cleaned within few hours of Palkhi procession by Adar Poonawalla Clean City, Pune Municipal Corporation, Gram panchayats of Loni Kalbhor, Kunjirwadi, Sortapwadi, Uruli Kanchan, Kadamwak Vasti, Wadki, Saswad and volunteers from these villages. But this year the team decided to go one step ahead to collect it separately and send it for scientific recycling.NGOs and institutions who have always been a valuable part of the drive include Runanubandh Foundation Saswad,ASR Services, Manjri, Pune ,Urulikanchan Gram Swachhata Abhiyan, Urulikanchan,Dreams Yuva Social Foundation, Kadamwakwasti, Jay Hind Group, Kadamwakwasti,Vidya Vikas College, Yavat,NSS, NCC team of Nazire College, Saswad,Clean Wari Sanghatana , Kunjirwadi,Paryavaran Sanrakshan Samiti, Kunjirwadi,Sudarshan Yuva Mandal, Urulikanchan,Mahatma Phule Krushi Vidyapeeth, Pune
PMC, ULBs and volunteer groups were working hard to plan this cleanliness drive for last fifteen days and over 650 local volunteers were mobilized for this task. APCCI provided training to all these volunteer groups and provided the collection bags, hand gloves and garbage pickup vehicles.
The dry waste collected separately included plastic bottles, paper cups etc. The drive was aided by 53 vehicles and 110 waste warriors deployed by APCCI for four days to support this movement. The volunteers were provided with material for cleaning including plogging bags .
APCCI COO Mr. Malhar Karwande, APCCI manager Mr Nilesh Ramekar and lead volunteer Mr. Satya Natarajan visited all the villages for coordination and mobilized the volunteers through whatsapp groups.
The movement was carried out under guidance of PMC Commissioner Mr. Vikram Kumar, Additional Commissioner Dr. Kunal Khemnar and APCCI CEO Mr. Krishnan Komandur.
