Youngsters come together to clean Delhi

Young Delhiites hanging out in a crowded market on a Sunday is a common sight. But the West Patel Nagar market in the capital saw the unusual sight of youngsters in their vibrant attire cleaning the market with brooms in their hands and masks on their faces.

Numerous other crowded markets were also cleaned by the volunteers of the Art of Living NGO. Each drive lasted for around two hours with the timings varying between 9.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.

'This is a follow up of the Yamuna campaign and our main motive is the 'Clean Delhi-NCR Drive' which will take place Sep 6-12,' Rajeev Dhall, Art of Living's area coordinator for central Delhi, told IANS.
The initiative was started with the 'Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna', a campaign to clean up the Yamuna river in March this year by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of Art of Living. Hundreds of NGOs, organisations and corporates were part of the initiative.
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A do for a cleaner Delhi!

It’s our city, and the state of the river that is its lifeline, the Yamuna, is also our responsibility. To create awareness and mobilise support for this cause, Art of Living launched its citizen awareness campaign titled ‘Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna’ on March 16 at Purana Qila, which saw the presence of thousands of citizens, leaders and stakeholders.

This is a social initiative by His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual and humanitarian leader and founder, Art of Living, that aims to create awareness and ownership among citizens for the Yamuna. His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and the Art of Living have been spearheading a week-long cleanliness drive of the eight Yamuna ghats, where thousands of Art of Living volunteers, along with supporting organisations and others, have cleaned the ghats, waded into the waters, removed debris and waste and planted trees on the ghats to beautify them. Read More from Times of India

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Volunteers collect truckloads of garbage from Yamuna

More than 3,000 schoolchildren, college students and volunteers of the Art of Living (AOL) Foundation plunged into cleaning the Yamuna amid scorching heat Tuesday, collecting truckloads of garbage that choke the river and its banks here.

The residents of Yamuna Bazaar ghat in north Delhi provided boats and lifeguards to help the volunteers who brought back garbage from the river.

'Besides schoolchildren and college students, locals also participated in the cleaning. We collected five truckloads of garbage from this ghat,' Purshottam Mathur, a project coordinator, told IANS.

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Guruji starts 8-day campaign to clean Yamuna

New Delhi, Mar 16 (PTI) Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar tonight launched an eight-day programme to clean Yamuna and create awareness among people to restore the river's past glory.


At a function here, Ravi Shankar said people should join hands and make others aware about making water of the river clean, pure and drinkable.


"Earlier rivers used to pure us, but today we have reached a stage where we have to clean the rivers. Only the government and a single agency can't make it happen. We have to make it by joining hands," he told a gathering of bureaucrats, artists, politicians and dignitaries at the Purana Quila here. Read More from PTI News

“The responsibility for cleaning up the Yamuna lies with us – the people she nurtures,” Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said.

“This movement is a call to remind us what this river has given to generations before us, and to allow her to nourish generations after us. It is a platform for our individual voices that will become a collective echo and an unstoppable force,” the founder of the Art of Living movement told reporters at the launch of the campaign here.

“I know thousands of crores have been spent over the years but the condition of the Yamuna has not improved…Let us go and clean the banks of the Yamuna from tomorrow (Wednesday),” he added. Read More from Sindh Today