Khushi Shah – Mumbai Uncensored, 24th April 2022
Mumbai, the city as we all know a home to beaches, seven of them. What we don’t know is it also has three of the dirtiest beaches. A report in 2019 showing Chowpatty beach as one of the most polluted all over India. 2020 the year of the pandemic, we saw reports on how the beaches looked cleaner than they ever did in the past, helping us to narrow down the obvious problem, us. We citizens were unable to pollute the city’s coastline during the lockdown marking the usually littered beach more or less pristine.
This year, on Earth day 2022 was celebrated all over Mumbai’s beaches, mangrove locations and river points through massive beach clean ups on 23rd and 24th of April by students and families. On 22 April 2022, earth day we say the Canadian consulate as well who came and clean the ‘Carter Road mangroves, Bandra.’
Project Mumbai who has been playing the role of a catalyst ensuring social transformation through initiatives of scale. Jallosh, a Project Mumbai initiative started in 2019 enables the cleaning of waterbodies across Mumbai. In the year 2019 8.
tonnes of trash was collected along River Mithi stretches where 5000 citizens came together and cleaned up nearly 20 tonnes of trash. Despite of the Covid-19 situation in the year 2020 the ‘Jallosh – Clean Coasts’ initiative was carried out but at a smaller scale.It also finds itself in the ‘Limca Book of Records-edition 2020’ as one of the largest public-private people led initiatives across India for such a cause.
Jallosh-Clean Coasts has been the beginning and part of Project Mumbai’s Citizens for Sustainability initiative under the tag line, ‘Mumbai ke liye, Kuch bhi Karega.’
This year the clean up along with Carter Road was held in sixteen different locations all over mumbai where the collected plastic waste that had been ruthlessly tangled in the mangroves, choking the life out of these plants were clean. Citizens patiently untangled the plastic, collected it and was then all sent for recycling.
REDUCE, RECYCLE AND RE-LEARN. Should be a motto everyone should follow. Besides removing garbage and plastics from our eco-systems to beat this garbage pollution we need to re- learn our way of living through a minimalist approach.
