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Cleanliness drive in SRA developed RR Colony in Gautam Nagar,Govandi

SRA developed RR Colony in Gautam Nagar, Govandi was nefarious  for reaching up to epitome of filth. It even took away life of a girl who fell down in garbage accumulated between two buildings and couldn’t survive. The crisis reached up to limit that one or the other member in every family was sick.




As soon as MESN intervened into the locality for public space development, we decided to clean all the open spaces. We requested Municipal Corporation to step in for this cause. Asst commissioner Kiran Dighaokar generously came forward to help us and he immediately commissioned task force to clean MMRDA Colony. It took two days, 80 cleaners and several JCB’s to clean and take away enormous amount of garbage. This activity gathered a lot of public attention and earned respect for open spaces.
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