New Delhi, Oct 01 (ANI): Kalindi Kunj Ghat on the Yamuna River was cleaned as part of the Namami Gange project of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) on early Monday morning (Oct 1) in capital New Delhi. Director General of NMCG Rajiv Ranjan Mishra took part in the drive alongside his colleague Rozy Agarwal and hundreds of volunteers of NMCG, Swach Bharat Abhiyan, employees of HCL and Union Bank of India among others. The cleanliness drive focused on freeing the Yamuna Ghat of plastic and solid wastes and since Kalindi Kunj Ghat is not a cemented one, the process of cleaning it was a little difficult, said Rozy Agarwal, who is the Executive Director, Finance of NMCG. NMCG has been running various projects to clean River Ganga of all the waste by 2020. Steps have been taken by NMCG to modernize the Ghats and various projects have been taken up for regular cleaning of Ghats in Varanasi, Haridwar, Mathura, Vrindavan, Kanpur and Allahabad among others. The cleaning of the Kalindi Kunj Ghat is a part of such projects. Stressing on the need for such drives, the volunteers too urged the general public to take part in the mission and keep the rivers, which cater to the needs of millions of Indians, clean and healthy. Nandita Pathak, the Brand Ambassador for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan expressed her happiness at how these drives are influencing the general public to take up the cause to keep the rivers clean. NMCG holds several such drives to clean the ghats in Delhi and other parts of the country. Earlier in July as well, NMCG had cleaned the Kalindi Kunj Ghat as a part of the Namami Gange project in the run-up to the World Environment Day. At that time, more than 15 trucks full of waste collected from the ghat and the river was transported for proper disposal. More than 300 people had participated in the drive as per reports.
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