TAJ CITY JOINS CLEANLINESS DRIVE

Agra October 2 (IANS)

 

Government offices, railway employees, students and scores of voluntary organisations today joined the national cleanliness drive and took the pledge to keep their environment clean.

 

At the Agra Cantt railway station the divisional railway manager Vijay Sehgal, Commissioner Finance Railway Board Rashmi Kapoor and the local BJP  Lok Sabha member Ram Shankar Katheria swept the platforms and removed garbage.

 

The divisional commissioner and the district offcials led groups to clean up the offices and the environment. Commissioner Pradeep Bhatnagar stressed the need for cleanliness and simplicity while addressing departmental heads.

 

The foreign students joined the locals at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan to clean up the campus. Dr Chandra Kant Tripathi led the groups to clean up the building and the class rooms.

 

A voluntary group India Rising cleaned up the neglected Gandhi Memorial on the Yamuna Bank. More than 40 activists led by Sudershan Dua and Anand Rai spruced up the area and gave a fresh coat of paint to the dilapidated building.

 

Shop Keepers in the Sadar Bazar area came out on the road with broom sticks and cleaned up the road early today.

 

In Vrindavan, Friends of Vrindavan cleaned the entire area around the railway station, while political party workers cleaned Yamuna ghats in Mathura.