MUMBAI: Days after
olive ridley hatchlings
made their presence felt at
Versova beach
for the first time in two decades, the top brass of the
shipping ministry
paid a visit on Sunday morning. The officials joined in the plan for "an integrated clean-up".
Additional director general, shipping,
Amitabh Kumar swept the place along with around 500 volunteers. Several kilos of garbage was cleared from the sandy stretch near Versova jetty.
"We will have a quarterly affair with the clean-up and we will draw up plans for a coordinated approach to tackle both, land-based and ship-based littering," Kumar said.
UN Champion of the Earth Afroz Shah, a lawyer from Versova who began the campaign in October 2015 with just an elderly neighbour, had urged that there should be a "long-term integrated approach and environment protection cannot just be a day's event".
Swati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, w...
Read MoreSwati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, where she has been covering courts for over a decade. She is passionate about law and works towards enlightening people about their statutory, legal and fundamental rights. She makes it her job to decipher for the public the truth, be it in an intricate civil dispute or in a gruesome criminal case.
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