Good initiative of collecting wastage from Ganesh pandals by group of youths from Vadodara

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80 Youths of Kartavya Mandal everyday collects wastage from pandals and handover to corporation

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Aim to spread message to maintain cleanliness during Ganeshotsav and immersion of idols

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Team of 80 youths in Vadodara are running a good initiative of sending a message of clean Ganeshotsav celebration. Keeping pace with the Prime Minister call of Clean India Mission, these youths everyday visits Ganesh pandals in the city and collect flowers and other wastage from there and handover to the corporation. 

Kartavya Mandal from Manjalpur area of city is running this campaign for last seven years and this year too they engage with great enthusiasm. The volunteers consists of working people, students, businessmen visited everyday in Ganesh pandals of the city and collected flowers and other wastage which they called ‘Nirmalaya’ and later handover to the corporation. They use around 15 to 20 vehicles include, two wheelers, rickshaws and vans for collection.

“We started this initiative to spread message in people to maintain cleanliness inside the pandals during Ganeshotsav as well as during immersion of idols in water bodies. We often see flower garlands, flowers and other items dumped inside the pandals leads to mosquito menace and other problems. Our volunteers visits every pandals to collect flowers and wastage daily to help organizers maintain cleanliness inside the area. Moreover it also helps to maintain cleanliness in water bodies as flowers and other things leads to water pollution during and after immersion. We later called the corporation van to collect the wastage from our place. In the last three days our volunteers collected more than 300kgs of wastage from Ganesh pandals,” said Mukesh Rajput, founder of the trust.

The volunteers are running this service by their own expense using their own vehicles taking out time from studies and work. At present they visited the pandals in and nearby areas and collect wastage from pandals. They also show their readiness to visit other pandals too if anyone called them form any part of the city.