The Paradip Port Trust (PPT) organised a cleaning programme under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on Fridayon the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. PPT Chairman Rinkesh Roy offered floral tributes at the photograph of Mahatma Gandhi along with Deputy Chairman N Vaiyapuri, Paradip ladies’ Club president Subhalaxmi Roy and Heads of the PPT departments.
Thereafter, Chairman Roy flagged off a mass cleaning drive undertaken by the PPT in which PPT officers, employees, members of the Paradip ladies Club and Paradip Sakshyarata Samiti and Gopabandhu Kreeda Sansad, CISF personnel and local people participated with a great enthusiasm.
The stretch connecting the Employees’ Recreation Centre to the Gate No. 4 and the Paradip Bus-Stand was cleaned up in line with the clarion call given by the Prime Minister. This time the concept was “Clean Port, Green Port, My Dream Paradip Port”. The participants collected garbage along the road consisted of waste material, plastic bottles, polythene bags, etc. People from the locality were sensitised not to throw garbage and pollutants here and there.
The Paradip Municipality assisted the programme by providing vehicles, and dumpers for shifting of the garbage.
A seminar on Hand Washing & Hygiene was also organised by Chief Medical Officer Dr P Panda at the PPT Hospital under the aegis of the Paradip Sakshyarata Samiti.