The International Coastal and Waterfront Clean-up Day was observed by the Eastern Naval Command on Saturday.
A large scale clean up drive was held all along the prominent beaches and water fronts of the city. The Naval community at Visakhapatnam represented by over 2,500 personnel comprising officers, men, women and children from various units of ENC undertook the cleanup drive.
The event covered the Ramakrishna, Rushikonda and Kalinga beaches, and waterfronts along the Tenneti Park, Double Bridge and inside the Naval Dockyard up to the Hindustan Shipyard Limited.
Pat for VUDA
Flagged off from near the Kursura museum on the Ramakrishna beach, the Clean Beach Drive was graced by Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba, Chief of Staff, ENC.
Other Flag Officers, senior Officers, families and students from the Navy Children School and the Kendriya Vidyalayas were also present on the occasion.
With this, ENC aims to complement the efforts of VUDA in making Visakhapatnam a clean city, an ENC spokesman said.
With a tagline ‘Nurture Nature for our Future', the drive was also intended inculcate amongst the general populace, the necessity to keep the beaches clean and to safeguard our environment.
Indian Coast Guard and Visakhapatnam unit of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages joined hands with Ocean Conservancy to undertake a massive cleanup at Rishikonda beach.
About 1,000 volunteers participated in the drive. DIG Indian Coast Guard M.A.a Thalha, Coca-Cola unit factory manager Ameer Hussain, General Sales Manager B. Vishu Vardhan Reddy and others spoke.