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More than 500 volunteers, in a move to conserve Dahisar river, conducted a massive cleaning operation on Sunday morning at the river. It was overwhelming,” said Mr Agarwal. The 12 km river, which originates from Tulsi Lake of SGNP and meets the Arabian Sea through Manori creek, has a total catchments area of 3,488 hectares. Interestingly, people from different parts of the state came together to be a part of the initiative to clean the river. Now at least people are refraining from throwing garbage into it and have started looking at it as a river and not a nullah,” said Mr Agarwal. “People travelled from Nashik, Pune and New Bombay to take part in the drive.More than 500 volunteers, in a move to conserve Dahisar river, conducted a massive cleaning operation on Sunday morning at the river.30 am during which the volunteers mainly removed the plastic waste, garbage, and religious waste thrown by the residents into the river.

The effort was to create awareness among the people who are responsible for the state of the river, cleaning the stretches which are polluted and make alternate arrangements for the polluters who are habituated with the arrangement,” said Mr Khare.30 am to 9. Working under the banner of River March, the cleaning drive not only managed to gather support of the locals to stop them from polluting the river but also AIR-COOLED DOUBLE PUMP CHILLER Factory removed 3,000 kg of plastic waste from the six-kilometre stretch. Ganesh Khare, one of the volunteers from River March, said that the major concern for the river is that the river is being polluted by five sources of contamination across its the six-kilometre bank. At the same time, a online petition launched to gather support has been marked to the chief minister, BMC commissioner, Prime Minister and Union environment minister to inform them about the increasing support of the residents for the cause. While the group has managed to gather the support of thousands in their previous three events that focused on educating and spreading awareness, the fourth segment of the movement was focused on an action plan.