The Hindu 13.11.2013
Small-screen stars take up garbage cleaning
After students and councillors, it was the turn of television stars to pitch in for the weekly K.R. Market cleaning drive.
On
Monday, small screen actors wielded brooms and set about cleaning the
market, but not before urging traders to dispose of waste only at
designated places. According to a press release, nearly 35 television
stars, including Ramesh Pandit, Sunil Puranik, Ratnamala, Pushpa,
Anuradha, Sparsha, Hamsaraj, Narayanaswamy and Gururaj, participated.
President
of the Television Stars’ Association Sanjiv Tagadooru reminisced about
his childhood when he would accompany his family to the market for
shopping.
“We used to come here to shop and return
happy. However, these days, the situation has changed. We must restore
the market to its earlier glory,” he said and urged the traders at the
market to join hands with the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike in
maintaining the market and its surroundings clean. Mayor B.S.
Sathyanarayana pointed out that the market clean-up drive had been taken
up for the seventh consecutive Monday.
He claimed several programmes for the market’s development were in the anvil, including a separate garbage collection package.