Indian Coast Guard organises cleanup drive in Visakhapatnam

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Young volunteers taking portion  successful  a formation  cleanup thrust  organised by the Indian Coast Guard astatine  RK Beach successful  Visakhapatnam connected  September 20, 2025. File

Young volunteers taking portion successful a formation cleanup thrust organised by the Indian Coast Guard astatine RK Beach successful Visakhapatnam connected September 20, 2025. File | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak

The headquarters, Indian Coast Guard District 6 (Andhra Pradesh), Visakhapatnam, organised an planetary coastal cleanup (ICC) thrust astatine RK Beach, successful Visakhapatnam, connected Saturday (September 20, 2025), arsenic portion of the biology consciousness run successful transportation with Prime Minister’s ‘Swatchhata Hi Sewa’.

This year’s ICC was organised connected the taxable “Turning the tide connected water trash.” The ICC time is celebrated nether the aegis of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP).

Visakhapatnam MP M. Sribharat participated successful the lawsuit arsenic main impermanent portion territory Collector MN Harendhira Prasad was impermanent of honour.

Volunteers from assorted agencies specified arsenic CISF, NCC, Adani Group, HPCL, IOCL, schools and colleges on with ICG unit and their families participated successful the event.

Approximately 600 kg of recyclable integrative and astir 700 kg of different adust discarded were collected from the formation during the Cleanup Drive, according to Deputy Inspector General Rajesh Mittal, Commander Coast Guard District HQ-6.

Published - September 20, 2025 12:58 p.m. IST

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