Thousands of volunteers pitch in to clean Yamuna
Clad in yellow body suits and masks and armed with spades, thousands of students, executives and even government officials on Saturday descended onto the banks of river Yamuna here and managed to remove truckloads of muck in a small start to the massive exercise required to clean up the clinically dead river.
The effort started at around 9 a.m. and went on till about 1 p.m. at Kudsia ghat near ITO in the heart of the national capital.
"We have managed to mobilise a lot of people today. In all about 3,000 people were here and six to seven truck loads of filth and muck was taken out of the riverbed along a 200 metre stretch," environmentalist Vimlendu Jha said.
Text: IANS
Images: AP
Image: Schoolchildren participate in a drive to clean the polluted River Yamuna in New Delhi, on December 5, 2009.
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