Liberation from Garbage

A group of volunteers across the city are taking a small but definitive step in cleaning up the city. Join us, they say, and make a difference!

Dear Bangaloreans,

THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY, LET US LIBERATE OURSELVES FROM GARBAGE!

Reclaim Bengaluru is a pan Bengaluru campaign which is an attempt to get Bangaloreans to come out and clean the streets of Bengaluru on the 15th of August, 2009, Independence Day. You can register for this by signing up on the web page www.cbengaluru.com.

List of zones for the Clean Bengaluru Campaign:
  • JP Nagar 7th, 8th Phase, RBI Layout, Gaurav Nagar, Novodhaya Nagar, Kothanur, Surabhi Nagar, Nayak Layout – Call Manjunath 9036221288
  • JP Nagar 1st, 2nd Phase, Sarakki – Call Aniruddha 9036571713
  • Srinivasnagar, Hanumanthnagar, Gandhi Bazaar – Call Nishchita 9844465275
  • Padmanabhnagar – Call Sandhya 9886814692
  • Uttarahalli – Call Lavanya 9743768311
  • Girinagar, Hoskerehalli, Kathriguppe – Call Yashwanth 9902525641
  • Jayanagar 3rd, 4th, 5th and 9th Blocks – Call Avinash 9964054995
  • Jayanagar 1st, 2nd Block and South End Circle – Call Shruthi 9945747587
  • Jayanagar 6th, 7th, 8th Block and K. R. Road – Call Sneha 9036840595
  • HSR Layout, Sarjapur Outer Ring Road upto Marathahalli – Call Joyer 9481785297
  • BTM layout – Call Vivek 9742738496
  • Indiranagar: Call Sudeep 9538350543
  • Marathahalli: Call Pradyumna 9964405548
  • Koramangala 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Block: Coordinator: Aniruddha 9036571713
  • Basavanagudi: Coordinator: Pradeep 9886042333
  • Bilekahalli, Arekere, Devarachikanahalli: Vikshut 9945429131
  • Malleshwaram – call Shreya 9945189335
  • Electronic City – Call Kevin 998691325
  • Yelahanka – Call Chandrashekar 9900249495

The vision of Clean Bengaluru is to get people on to a common platform and do something constructive for their city. With this, you get to know what is happening in your city, what work is being done by various organizations, exchange ideas with one another and what you can do as an individual. Also, BBMP is going to be playing a big part in this campaign. It is an opportunity for the people to connect to BBMP such that it becomes a starting point for more work to be done in the future.

On the 15th of August, arm yourself with broom, dustpan, gloves and a biodegradable plastic bag (trash bag) and step out of your house, your apartment building, your school or your office and collect all the scattered trash around it. Keep the collected trash neatly in the plastic bag, tie it properly, and leave it outside your house/school/office or at the street corner. BBMP has committed to ensure the collected trash is cleared.

Once we have finished the work, we will update the clean Bangalore coordinators with details of volunteers, number of bags of trash collected, street or area which we have cleaned up.

We, the volunteers from Youth for Seva have partnered with the Clean Bengaluru campaign.

Please call the coordinator closest to you and join us tomorrow in this small step to make our city clean.  Your coordinator will identify the areas requiring the most cleaning up and inform you of the meeting point and time on 15th August from where the cleaning up will start.

The act of cleaning up one day is merely symbolic. It is obviously not possible for us to clean up all the garbage on the streets or the drains which are the places where most of the garbage lie. Rather, it’s an attempt to show people how powerful they can be through their actions and the possibilities that lie ahead.

It is our city. Let us, as Bangaloreans, show that we care!

More info at:  www.cbengaluru.net or call 9916102848.

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