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who receive a daily wage of Rs. 350 for daily including door-to-door waste collection in
cleaning activities at designated locations. Vadinar and the surrounding 14 villages.
The accumulated waste is collected and The GP oversees the administration and
handed over to the municipality every supervises these activities, while Nayara
fortnight for proper disposal. Energy employs 15 individuals for the
sanitation work for a daily wage of Rs.
Dandi Village, Jalalpor Block, Navsari 360 each. As many as 3 mini-trucks and
District: With a 2 km stretch of coastline, 13 e-rickshaws have been dedicated to
Dandi Beach is a tourist spot but has a managing both solid and liquid wastes in
significant amount of waste dumped by the cluster. On a daily basis, the collected
visitors. The panchayat employs one person solid waste is segregated and the recyclable
for a daily wage of Rs. 250 to clean the site. waste is handed over to local scrap dealers,
Beach cleaning activities are carried out while the non-recyclable waste is disposed
as per the requirements of the panchayat, of appropriately.
particularly during events such as the
Somnath, Veraval Block, Gir Somnath
Ganpati Visarjan (immersion) ceremony.
District: To maintain the cleanliness of the
The collected waste is handed over to
long coastline near the Somnath Temple and
the municipality for processing and safe
Veraval City, the District administration of
disposal.
Gir Somnath District organizes cleanliness
Madhavpur Village, Porbandar District: drives under the NSS, involving senior
The Madhavpur beach is renowned not only citizens, youth volunteers, and various
departmental staff of the District. The
in Gujarat but also throughout India. The GP
cleaning work is carried out through the joint
ensures the cleanliness of the beach on a
efforts of the Veraval Patan Municipality and
regular basis by employing 18–20 sanitation
the Somnath Temple Trust. Daily cleaning
workers who receive a daily wage of
activities involve segregating the collected
Rs. 350 each.
waste and disposing of non-recyclable
Vadinar Village, Khambhadiya Block, waste at the designated dumping site of
Devbhoomi Dwarka District: Nayara Energy the municipality every fortnight for further
and the GP jointly carry out sanitation work processing.

utcome

As a result of the campaign, many coastal States
have initiated measures to clean their beaches

on a regular basis and therefore protect the
environment.

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