We are on the final lap of preparations for the Nandi Hills cleanup drive. Here are a few things that we wanted to convey
* Several volunteers called us to have the drive shifted to Sunday 24th August. This also came in as a request from the DC ’s office who wanted this to happen on a government holiday so that we could solicit better involvement from the government authorities. So please note that the drive has been postponed by one day. It’s now going to happen on the 24th August. If you have forwarded information about this campaign to other groups or mailing lists (hasiruUsiru for eg), please make sure that you update them with this new information.
* So far we’ve had amazing co-operation from the DC’s office, Forest Department, Youth services, Horticulture department and the other authorities. We are confident that the area will be declared plastic-free. More importantly, we are sure that we will be able to prevail upon them to enforce the rules strictly.
* A group of high court judges are very enthusiastic about joining us on this drive. This was another reason why we decided to shift it to Sunday. Also, we have joined hands with the advocates association of Bangalore, and together we plan to combine the cleanup drive with an afforestation effort. There is going to be a sapling planting event in the morning of the 24th too. The district forest office is blessing this effort.
* We have to start arranging for the transportation soon. We request all volunteers to mention their location in Bangalore in the spreadsheet so that we can accordingly decide the start points of the transport vehicles. Please note that we won’t be able to have too many start points, and that we might ask you to arrange your own commute to a common location.
* We have funds left for about 10 trash bins. However, we got to know from the horticulture department that this number is hardly enough for the 60 acres that is in their jurisdiction. If any of you have ideas/funds for the remaining 20 or so trash bins we’d love to hear from you as soon as possible.
That’s it for now. In the coming week, we’ll be getting in touch with each of the volunteers to co-ordinate the whole drive.
August 19, 2008 at 7:26 am |
How much does a trash bin cost? We can’t give you a figure for help unless we know that…
August 26, 2008 at 10:20 pm |
well a better report than wat de news papers had to say but abt the clean up surely a great work dont by the organizers was indeed a great step… but dont really know where i read the line but success to any process is the follow-up n not the start
my selfish motive hope the coming generations have the same or more place to enjoy as we have ……..
Good Luck