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Swacch Mangaluru Abhiyan
Swachh Mangaluru Abhiyan taken up by the Ramakrishna Mission is a success story that has turned out to be an inspirational event in the history of Mangaluru.
The Swacha Bharath Abhiyan was a clarion call given by our honourable Prime Minister Mr Narendera Modi on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti in the year 2014. On 26th September 2014, the Govt. of India sent a letter of appeal to the Ramakrishna Mission requesting active participation in the Abhiyan.
The headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission at Belur Math, West Bengal sent instructions to the Math to take up the campaign and inspire the devotees, the volunteers and the people of Mangaluru to take part in the cleanliness drive.
Ramakrishna Mission, Mangaluru decided to work towards making the Prime Minister’s dream come true and launched “Swacch Mangaluru for Swacch Bharath” Abhiyan on the 30th January 2015. The programme began with a rally of 2000 students, oath taking ceremony and honouring 100 Poura karmikas.
To create awareness among people regarding their civic sense, 50 teams of volunteers under the leadership of the monks cleaned up the city by organizing 500 shramadan projects. They renovated public facilities, built new bus and auto shelters, put up hundreds of signposts, and constructed small parks and footpaths, to begin with.
To create awareness among school children, ‘Swacch Manas’ programmes were organized in 100 schools in the city as a part of the Abhiyan. More than 500 events were planned for this purpose. 100 students from each school, a total number of 10,000 students were given special training about cleanliness. 70 resource persons visited these schools to train the children in the Abhiyan.
To create awareness among the college students, ‘Swacch Soch’ programmes were arranged in city colleges. Symposiums were organized in about 50 colleges of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district. Lectures, demonstrations, workshops and debates were conducted under the guidance of resource persons. District level and state level seminars were also organized for the students of colleges and universities.
More than 2000 cleanliness drive programmes were organized in 100 villages each from Dakshina Kannada district and Udupi district under Swacch Gram Abhiyan for rural areas. 100 volunteers from every village were nominated as the members of the Abhiyan. These members took up shramadan projects on one Sunday of every month in their respective villages.
Swacchata Jana Samparka Abhiyan events were organized every day at different residential layouts of the city. During each event, the volunteers organized awareness programmes with the slogan "Our garbage, our responsibility". ‘Swacch Bharat’ pamphlets were distributed to people to create awareness.
Magic shows for cleanliness were another innovative way of teaching people about cleanliness. 200 magic shows were organised by the famous magician Kudroli Ganesh and his team at various venues in the city.
In all the Swacch Mangalore Abhiyan programmes organized by the Ramakrishna Mission, people from all fields of society participated actively. The eminent persons of the society took up brooms in their hands to clean up the city along with the monks and the volunteers of the Math. Sri. Venkaiah Naidu, the Vice President of India, the Bollywood star Mr. Nana Patekar, Dr. B.R. Shetty of Abu Dhabi, Padma Bhushan Dr. B.M. Hegde, Nitte Vinaya Hegde, the Union Ministers Sri Dharmendra Pradhan and Sri Ramesh Jigajinagi, M.Ps and M.L.A.s, govt. officers, teachers, college students, school children, and people from every field of society have worked with the Math in the Swacch Mangalore Abhiyan.
More than 10,000 volunteers have toiled relentlessly in the Abhiyan. 13,000 students have worked as the ' Warriors of Cleanliness'. Nearly 20, 00,000 hours of human resource has been utilized in the Abhiyan. More than 2000 articles have been published by the media regarding the Swachh Mangaluru Abhiyan by the Ramakrishna Mission. The volunteers have visited more than 40,000 houses to create awareness among people regarding the disposal of wet and dry household garbage.
The concept of pot composting for wet waste management has been introduced by providing pot composters at a subsidy rate to more than 5000 households in Mangaluru. People are trained through demonstration classes to convert organic kitchen waste into natural manure.
Swachh Mangaluru Abhiyan taken up by the Ramakrishna Mission is a success story that has turned out to be an inspirational event in the history of Mangaluru.
Swacch Manas
“Swacch Manas” initiatives were conducted to awaken the sense of respect and concern for nature & surroundings among children. 250 schools were chosen in Dakshina Kannada Dist. Nearly 25000 students from these schools were earmarked Swacchata Senanis and several activities were arranged for these students through sixty resource persons who conducted nearly 600 Swacch Manas […]
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Swacch Soch
To create awareness among the college students, ‘Swacch Soch’, programmes were arranged in UG & PG colleges. Symposiums were organized in about 50 colleges reaching out to 15000 students of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. Lectures, demonstrations, workshops and debates were conducted under the guidance of resource persons. District level and state level seminars were […]
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Magic Shows on cleanliness
The most distinctive attempt however was a series of magic road shows called “Swacch Jadoo”, the magic shows for cleanliness, conducted at different places of the district by International renowned mega magician Kudroli Ganesh which aimed at attracting people to the concept of cleanliness through entertainment. These shows were greatly appreciated and thoroughly enjoyed by […]
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Swacch Mangaluru for Swacch Bharat Shramadans
Every Sunday morning from 7:00 am to 9:00 am hundreds of volunteers took up a cleanliness drive at various venues of the city. These ambassadors of cleanliness cleaned the streets, drains and public toilets. They renovated and painted bus shelters and erected signposts wherever necessary. They cleaned up roadside garbage dumping places and beautified them […]
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Swacch Gram Abhiyan for Rural areas
Clean Dakshina Kannada- Clean Udupi: More than 2000 cleanliness drive programmes were conducted in 200 villages of the districts. Swacch Gram programmes were organized in association with Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Zilla Panchayats. 100 volunteers from every village were nominated as members of the Abhiyan. They were provided with T-shirts with logos, gloves and other […]
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Swacchata Jagriti Jan Sampark Abhiyan
The cleanliness campaign becomes more effective when it is combined with the awareness programme. In this regard, the Ramakrishna Mission contacted more than 40,000 houses and organizations and carried out more than 1000 awareness projects throughout our district. These events were conducted every day in the evenings at various venues. During each event, which lasted […]
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Pot Composting
The concept of pot composting for wet waste management was introduced by providing pot composters at subsidized rates to 5000 households in Mangaluru. The training was offered to convert organic kitchen waste into natural manure. This resulted in managing nearly 5 tons of kitchen waste at source or houses. Process: Composting through Hermi Pot is […]
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Spirit of Volunteerism
More than 10,000 volunteers toiled relentlessly in the Abhiyan. 13,000 students worked as the ‘ Warriors of Cleanliness’. Nearly 20 lakh man-hours were utilized in the Abhiyan. The volunteers visited more than 40,000 houses to create awareness among people regarding the disposal of wet and dry household garbage. Swachh Mangaluru Abhiyan taken up by the […]
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