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Special drive: NSS Volunteers cleaning new port beach in Tuticorin on Saturday. MADURAI/TIRUCHI: The Indian Coast Guard launched a massive cleaning campaign on Saturday along the Nagapattinam, Ramanathapuram and Tuticorin coast in association with South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme to create awareness of the importance of clean seas and coast. Members of various organisations and fishermen families actively participated in the campaign. The day was observed as International Coastal Clean-up Day. About 500 volunteers from Tuticorin Corporation, the Naval and Army wings of NCC, Central Industrial Security Force, National Service Scheme, Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Trust, Art of Living, Marine Police, Ganapathy Ram Trust and students from St. Mary’s, VOC and Kamaraj colleges, SPIC Higher Secondary School and Tuticorin Port Trust Higher Secondary School conducted the cleaning operation for about four hours. The volunteers cleared derbies and non bio-degradable materials. In Rameswaram, the campaign was inaugurated by Commandant K. Janardhanan, Commanding Officer, Coast Guard. V. Naganathan, Eco Development Officer, Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Trust (GOMBRT), took part. About 100 Coast Guard personnel, 1000 volunteers of GOMBRT, Coastal Security Group, Tamil Nadu Rural Reconstruction Movement and eco development committees cleared about six tonnes of marine garbage from Olaikuda to Agnitheertham. Cleaning of the 188-km-long coastline was taken up in Nagapattinam district. Nearly 500 fishermen families and local people removed the waste from the shore. M. Jayaraman, Collector, launched the campaign at Akkaraipettai and Keechankuppam. The clean-up drive was taken up simultaneously in all coastal areas. Nearly one tonne of waste materials found on the beach was collected and sent to the garbage dumping yard by municipal authorities. Ashwin M. Kotnis, Superintendent of Police, launched the cleaning campaign of the new Nagapattinam beach on Friday to mark the 150 years of service of the Police Department. More than 300 school and college girls, NSS volunteers and members of voluntary organisations took part.
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