Beach clean-up drive organised in city

The city’s long stretch of beaches witnessed clean-up drives organised by various agencies as part of the observance of the International Coastal Clean-up Day on Saturday.

The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation organised a mega clean-up drive across the several beaches. Mayor Arya Rajendran inaugurated the drive on the Vettukad beach in the presence of Health Standing Committee Chairperson Gayathri Babu.

As many as 300 sanitation workers of the civic body and 500 volunteers from the Volunteer for India movement participated in the drive that was organised as part of the State government’s ongoing Malinya Muktham Nava Keralam waste management campaign.