Clean-up drive at city beaches

To encourage and educate people keep coastal areas and beaches clean, the service personnel of the Indian Coast Guard along with their families, NGOs and students launched a coastal clean-up drive at Juhu and Girgaum Chowpatty beaches in Mumbai today.

To encourage and educate people keep coastal areas and beaches clean, the service personnel of the Indian Coast Guard along with their families, NGOs and students launched a coastal clean-up drive at Juhu and Girgaum Chowpatty beaches in Mumbai on Saturday.

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The clean-up was undertaken as part of the International Coast Clean-up 2012. Other beaches along the Maharashtra coastline including those in in Ratnagiri and Murud Janjira also saw similar activities.

As a part of the drive, volunteers cleared the debris and removed non-biodegradable material such as plastic, rubber, glass and metal from along the coastline.