The Gopalpur Swatchh Bharat Abhiyan Manch organised a plastic-free India rally on the Gandhi Jayanti carrying forward the mission of plastic-free India from Gopalpur Bazar to Junia Bazar under Bahanaga block in Baleswar district on Wednesday.
Thousands of school and college students, members from WSHG groups, PSMS Groups, WMS Groups and Sarapanch and PS Member of four gram panchayats took part in the rally shouting slogans and holding placards and banners.
Bahanga Tehsildar Debajani Bhuyan garlanding the photograph of Mahatma Gandhi flagged off the rally in which the participants urged people paper bags instead of plastic bags.
Among others, Sarpanch Jogesh Pati, Sitakanta Tripathy, Ramakanta Mishra, Barendra Sethi, Biswambar Das and Harish Kumar Jena were present.
The Saraswati Sishu Mandir, Jageswarpada also organised a rally under leadership of Headmaster Pandit Sudarsan Mahaik.