College students join beach clean-up after Ganpati immersions

morning to ensure that Girgaum Chowpatty was free of litter after Anant Chaturdashi.
Students from SIES, SIWS, Lala Lajpatrai, Nagindas Khandvala, Sophia, Hinduja and Siddharth colleges joined in the drive, undertaken by Times Green Ganesha, a joint initiative of The Times of India and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board. The Rotaract Club of Jai Hind College, EMDI Institute and KC College’s Nature and Environment Committee pitched in too. Shaina NC of I Love Mumbai Foundation, who participated too, said, “I urge citizens to use eco-friendly idols and immerse them in artificial ponds.”

This year, the BMC invited chief minister Devendra Fadnavis as a part of its clean-up drive under the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan. Fadnavis spent time with the volunteers and motivated them, while BMC chief Ajoy Mehta and state education minister Vinod Tawde told them to keep up the good work.