The volunteers of Aryabhatta Foundation organised a 24 km-long Padayatra from the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Nagar to the district headquarters town, Chhatrapur, on Monday to create an awareness on environment and plastic menace.
The rally commenced with Ramdhun and Bapu's dearest bhajan “Vaishnava Janato.” The volunteers carried placards on climate change and mitigation, water conservation, polythene menace, etc, to spread the message to protect the environment. They conducted roadside meetings, appraised the public as to how to keep the environment clean, green and eco-friendly, and distributed leaflets.
The volunteers approached the residents door- to- door and requested the BeMC authorities to restore and renovate all the existing ponds located in and round Brahmapur city.Later, they handed out a memorandum addressed to the CM to the Additional District Magistrate.
Chairman of the Foundation and known environmentalist Sudhir Kumar Raut, Shyama Sundar Khadanga, Susant Mohanty, Sukanta Gouda, Er Swetalina Panda, Bhimaraju Patro, K Ghanashyama and Prasanna Swain among others joined.