Coast Guard Headquarters, Karnataka, led the International Coastal Clean-up Day programme, on with students and volunteers, nether the taxable ‘Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar’, astatine Panambur Beach successful Mangaluru connected Saturday.
Hundreds of volunteers, including those from New Mangalore Port Authority, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL), lipid handling agencies, schools, colleges, municipal corporation, Coastal Security Police, Central Industrial Security Force, surf clubs, and section residents, participated successful the drive.
The concerted effort was aimed astatine addressing the pervasive issues of marine contamination and safeguard the delicate marine ecosystems.
Hundreds of volunteers collected a immense magnitude of trash during the International Beach Clean-up Day, organised by Coast Guard Headquarters, Karnataka, astatine Panambur Beach successful Mangaluru connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Fitness events, soil art, and consciousness taste programmes were besides conducted to marque it a wide movement. Panambur Beach, renowned for its earthy beauty, was chosen to item the value of keeping beaches clean.
MRPL Director (Refinery) Nandhakumar V. Pillai launched the event.
Coast Guard District Commander and Deputy Inspector-General Praveen Kumar Mishra emphasised connected inculcating the wont of disposing integrative discarded successful a due spot to forestall it from getting into the nutrient chain. He further elucidated the value of corporate enactment to combat the escalating contamination situation and highlighted its adverse effects connected the coastal areas crossed the globe.
The lawsuit continued with soil creation competition, h2o sports events, skit performance, histrion saplings plantation drive, and transverse acceptable challenge.
