Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Swachhta Abhiyaan by Horticulture Division at PU


Swachhta Abhiyaan by Horticulture Division at PU
National Tele24 News
Chandigarh
   Horticulture Division of Panjab University has taken up an initiative to drive more and more people for ‘Swachhta Abhiyaan’. It is sensitizing residents and visitors alike by extending tie-ups and collaborations. Today the division collaborated with Social Substance from PU and about seventy workers/volunteers including kids cleaned the area of Students’ Centre at PU.  Er. Anil Thakur, Divisional Engineer of the Division, again led the team and about twenty trollys of garbage were collected from Students’ Centre. In an uphill task about one thousand plants were given required treatment and face of the place was uplifted. The drive continued for four hours and a hearty laugh symbolic to make the issues look trivial was shared among all as motivational ceremony. Er. Thakur told the correspondent that there are thousands of plants in the area and their regular upkeep is duty of all. Er. Aman Singla led the execution of waste collection. He appreciated the zeal of workers for this pious drive. 
Dr. MC Sidhu from Botany said people should open up and extend reach for guidance from experts for such initiative in context of misconceptions about pruning of trees, a much need maintenance routine.  Dr. Arun Bansal documented the whole process and felicitated the out-reach activities.  He brought along his two little kids who were in full spirit and cleaned a portion with self made broom. While Dr. Rajesh from physics was extremely happy with outcome Shri Navtej Singh Ji pointed out that such drives are much needed and frequency can be increased if common people join the movement. Er. Grover, PU, Mr. Akshay, Social Substance and many more marked their attendance.


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