Due to the official ICC tie-up, 'volunteer' is the keyword for participating and this year 98 students from std IX and X answered the call. Radhika Rajwade, director of Centre Point School said, "We started this last year and limited it so far to the Wardhaman branch. But the response has been tremendous and in fact this year students were the ones who pestered their principal Sumathi Venugopalan to hold the lake clean-up drive."
As per ICC standards students have been provided with caps, gloves and garbage bags. They are also given masks and gumboots if required to step in shallow water.
Suranjana Roy, a std IX student said, "We are extremely happy to be part of something which will ultimately benefit the community as a whole. It is important to create awareness about cleaning up and saving our natural water bodies."
Once the clean-up started, students were shocked to see how Telangkhedi lake was being abused by people. Aditya Gupta, a std X student said, "Eateries at the promenade throw their leftovers here at night and it has polluted this beautiful lake." Preet Jham, a std IX student said, "We are having a tough time in collecting all the garbage as the people have thrown them in small pits. The slushy mud makes it extremely tough for us to clean up."
As students kept pulling out garbage, heaps of food wrappers, plastic bags, cigarette stubs, tire tubes, ropes, beverage cans, plastic cups, wrappers, glasses, empty liquor bottles etc kept piling up. Ishika Agrawal, std X student said, "It takes just seconds to throw garbage and hours to clean it." For her classmate Ansh Harijawani it was a shock to see Ganesha idols on the lake's bank. "The idols are worshipped by the devotees and then disposed off heartlessly. What is the sense in all those days of sincere devotion?"
According to ICC parameters students had to list garbage in different categories like general waste, fishing gears, dead or injured animals, packaging materials, and personal hygiene. The data will then be submitted to ICC.
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