Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 30: “Clean Ban Ganga” campaign, under 8th edition of Save The Trikuta Mountains organized by International Volunteer Foundation in collaboration with Delhi Public School Katra was flagged off today.
The campaign was flagged off by Advocate Ankur Sharma, who was the chief guest on the occasion.
The rally of 80 students and volunteers started from Katra to Ban Ganga wherein they raised slogans on environment protection, interacted with pilgrims, locals, shopkeepers, distributed pamphlets, displayed placards and spread the message of Clean Katra, Clean Ban Ganga.
At the main ghat, the volunteers plunged into the Ban Ganga for its cleanliness and collected non bio degradable waste about 400 kilograms.
While interacting with the students volunteers, Advocate Ankur said they are the young ambassadors of this Clean Ban Ganga campaign.
Kiran Kumar Sharma, Founder Save The Trikuta Mountains said that every year more than one crore pilgrims visit Katra for darshan of Mata Vaishno Devi at Bhavan. On the way, pilgrims often spread garbage on the track and throw plastic waste in the deep gorges of the mountains which is posing threat to the ecology of the holy Trikuta mountains and so awareness campaigns need to be organized at regular interval of time to ensure the cleanliness on the track and all around the beautiful Holy Trikuta mountains, which is an abode of Mata Vaishno Devi.
“It is the responsibility of every citizen of India to keep their surroundings and public places neat and clean, use dustbins, make compost of their kitchen waste and make habit of reduce, reuse and recycle of non bio degradable products”, he added.
Vandana Sharma, Officiating Principal, DPS, Ganesh Singh, Dheeraj Mahajan, Member IVF, Jatin Kohli, Prateek and Deepika, Teacher, DPS were also present on the occasion.
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