Port Blair, Sept. 18: A cleanliness drive was conducted at Bambooflat Jetty by PRI members of Gram Panchayats Shorepoint, Bambooflat 1, Bambooflat 2 and Hopetown. Miss V. K. Mariyam Bibi, ZPM, Bambooflat and Pradhans of various Gram Panchayats requested the shopkeepers, fish sellers, vendors to inform the people to not litter the waste in open places as dustbins are provided everywhere and it is collected by the panchayat sanitation workers daily.

The PRIs also cleaned the seashore in spite of the rainy weather. They collected plastics, glass bottles, clothes and wood in huge quantity and sent it to the waste processing clusters for further disposal. The motive of shramdhan is to create awareness among people about cleanliness, to protect ourselves from diseases and also to provide a good impression to the tourists visiting to our Islands.