The residents of Peeranwadi got a pleasant surprise on Tuesday morning as they saw college boys and girls going around with broomsticks and pans and clearing plastic and other waste from the roads.
Around 160 volunteers of National Service Scheme (NSS) got into action midway through their week-long National Integration Camp, which has been on since Sunday. They cleared plastic and other solid waste littered along the 2-km stretch of the Peeranwadi-Visvesvaraya Technology University road on the outskirts of the city under their ‘Plastic Cleaning Campaign’. The waste collected by the volunteers was transported to the garbage dumping yard in trucks.
Volunteers from 16 universities in Karnataka, Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Goa are participating in the camp, being organised jointly by the Department of Youth Empowerment and Sports, Rani Channamma University, Visvesvaraya Technological University, National Service Scheme and the Forest Department.
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Karisiddappa and Shivanand Mulimani, Vice-Chancellors of VTU and RCU respectively, symbolically participated while Deputy Conservator of Forests Basavaraj V. Patil actively participated till the volunteers completed their task for the day.