Lawyer. UNEP - Champion of Earth.Indian Of the Year CNN News18, GQ - Men of the year 2019 .CNN hero - 2019, Mother Teresa Memorial Award for social justice 2022
Week 127 .
Fantastic news for Mumbai .
We got back Olive Ridley Sea Turtle after 20 years. Historic moment
Nested and Hatched at our beach. We facilitate their journey to ocean.
Constant cleaning helps marine species.
Marine conservation centre needed at
@versovabeach
Harassed for 2 hours by Tilak nagar police
Taken to the police station
Let off by saying please leave
Suspending all my activities to help the poorest of the poor
Sorry migrants - the system doesn't allow me to work for you
Broken heart. Broken soul
I cry and I am in pain
Week 160.
The miraculous journey to clean the beach and to get circular economy in our lives is depicted beautifully in this video - 3 years timeline.
All of us work together -Citizens, MCGM, Plastic producers, Elected representatives. Spellbound results.
Hence I move on.
Week 153.
#MyCleanIndia
#cleanseas
Last night , 35,000 citizens at the beach celebrating Ganesh Visarjan.
We - Citizens and BMC - worked all night for 9 hours.
At 3 .00 am , we leave the beach -as it was - before the arrival of Citizens.
Hard work to protect ourselves
My mom.
At 80 with diabetes and thyroid- she fought and won against Covid19.
Now fighting against Mucormycosis ( a deadly fungal infection ) with smile and twinkle in her eyes.
Women of grit and strength.
Stories of Inspiration to fight and live on.
Love you mom.
My country has given me everything.
We demand no rights from my country.
We want to give our efforts and our sweat to this beautiful nation - 31 million kgs of garbage removed from mother nature.
I know no other way to love my motherland.
Give back to this beautiful india.
This is our passion for past 5 years .
We did it for the voiceless marine species .
35 million kgs of plastic - off from the marine habitat .
We know - no other way - but to roll up our sleeves and do what has to be done .
Love ocean .
Week 191 .
Marine species do not
- Wear clothes
- brush their teeth
- drink milk or tea or eat biscuits
- shampoo
So no
- detergent powder
- tooth paste
- milk pouches
- shampoo sachets
Why Humans are forcing them to adopt our habits.
Versova beach cleanup - today.
Diesel - our four legged canine friend
cleaned the beach with us.
Any plastic on the beach invited his ire - he would run and pluck the plastic out.
A true volunteer - we lost him last night.
And as fate has it - where he cleaned - he found his resting place - on the beach.
Cleaning public toilets is our way to show our love for our mother land .
Helps reduce open defecation .
Helps local community to engage in worthwhile activity for nation building and loving mother nature.
Triggers waste management habits.
Our bit for today for our country.
A request made by female colleague on the whatsapp.
Request like this must be mandatorily granted.
A women's right to self perception about her menstrual cycles- is her right and her right alone .
Respect the rights of female colleagues .
#Covid19
Dogs - on the street - are the worst sufferers during this tough times.
Never had a dog as a companion but today I stepped out to feed them .They are hungry and lonely.
After being in self isolation - I stepped out to pick the dog feed.
Some fed now. Some later.
Week 115 - Marine Litter chronicle.
Our dear
@SrBachchan
gifted us a Jungli excavator and tractor by
@escortsgroup
Today the engines were fired by him. Love and love and love for holding our hands tight. Sir , you are a torch of light in this fight to
#BeatPollution
.
Dear
@narendramodi
,
Bapu's dream of Clean India is "Our life".
Bapu stood for it for life.
We stand for it for life.
I became friends with our Prime minister on garbage pickup.
Thank you Modiji for your invaluable leadership to connect with nature.
@ErikSolheim
My friend Afroz and his team have been diligently working towards cleanliness for a long time.
We are proud of your efforts and hope you will continue to play a vital role in fulfilling Bapu's dream of a Clean India.
@AfrozShah1
Early Morning today from my house .
The ocean and the rains dancing in harmony .
These sights are some of the best pleasure's of life .
Nature blesses us .
Take the blessing with gratitude and love .
Don't ruin and pollute mother nature .
My Mom.
She fought Covid19 .
She fought Black Fungus though she lost her left eye .
She is 82.
I am a lucky child that i serve her in these difficult times.
She smiles all day - like a warrior - even after losing her eye . She is a tough woman .
Blessed I am. Love you mom .
Week 261.
#InternationalCoastalCleanup
#Day
A whale , A Shark , A turtle , A dolphin needs to be left alone - free from Plastic Pollution in their habitat.
Our bit for our country.
Our bit for our ocean.
Ground action.
30,000 kgs of plastic removed from the ocean today.
Today's purchase of daily /monthly requirements of food stuff at local store - Grains , pulses , milk , bread and masala - without packaging.
Circular economy is about reduction of garbage.
Dump "Take , Make , Use, Throw " culture.
Simple and doable - to love mother nature.
Week 293 .
Sunday well spent.
Service to mother nature.
Service to my India .
8000 kgs of plastic pollution cleared from the eco senstive mangroves .
Love you mangroves .
Week 259.
Beach cleaning is :
1.Protecting the marine species from plastic pollution killing them.
2.Plastic not going in to deep ocean - and fattening the ocean gyres.
3.Clean and learn.Reduce single use plastic at home and garbage.
4.Then a clean beach.
Our bit.
Week 292.
Deep inside remote fragile mangroves - cleaning.
12,000 kgs of plastic pollution removed.
No place on this planet is free from plastic pollution.
And we continue this habit - produce, consume , use and throw.
Our bit for today.
Love my India - by doing.
Week 184 .
Sagar kutir - versova beach - Open defecation (OD) rampant.
54 Toilets - messy , dirty with bottles ,single use plastic and muck.
We started cleaning it in Nov 2016.
Now,
- 70% reduction in OD.
- 8 local volunteer boys clean it everyday twice.
- mindset change.
Week 165 .
Freeing
@RiverMithi
from plastic debris and water hyacinth.
Then training people living on the banks to adopt
#Circulareconomy
- reduce waste and then monetize.
Only way we know to love and hug River Mithi.
Another beautiful Sunday dedicated to our country.
When you see ur mother - 80 year old- in such state of mind and pose - after fighting black fungus (mucormycosis) - My heart jumps with joy .
My mom at her animated best - recovering from deadly black fungus.
Love you mom . Women of strength and grit . Lots to learn from you.
Week 286 .
Beach cleanup - 16000 kg plastic leave the beach.
Mangrove cleanup - 12,000kg plastic removed from the roots of the ocean.
Ocean cleanup by boats - 5000 kg floating plastic removed from the ocean.
Our bit - We ,
@adidas
India,
@NorwayMFA
,
@norwayinindia
@mybmc
Week 152 .
#BeatPlasticPollution
.
Our celebrations of festival is unique and lovely .
We Work hard for 5 hrs in the night and 2 hrs in the morning .
That's the bare minimum we do to show our love for mother nature .
Week 138 .
#BeatPlasticPollution
.
Mangroves cleanup is such satisfying journey.
Styrofoam , multilayer packaging , debris , glass - dumped by all of us and creating havoc in this fragile ecosystem.
We need to care about mangroves and not abuse it .
Are we listening ??
Week 220.
Meeting with State of Maharashtra's- youngest , dynamic leader and our environment minister and my dear friend
@AUThackeray
We are blessed to have a passionate nature lover as a minister.
Lots discussed and lots of deliverables and ground work to be done.
Week 248
#Safaikarmachari
#Alonetime
#MumbaiRains
- Ocean pukes plastic pollution
Heavy rains and heavy cleaning with
@mybmc
and my dear friend
@RandeepHooda
- with social distancing and rules
4 tractor load of single use plastic litter and garbage out of the ocean.
Our bit
Public transport is such a vital link in reducing global warming.
Travelling in local train now - is so much comfortable , so much sustainable and so much fun .
Lovely ride .
Week 109 cleanup.Volunteers abused by goons for picking up garbage.Administrative lethargy,non clearance of picked up garbage and abuses is what we are largest beach cleanup is suspended.Tried my best and I failed.Forgive me my ocean and my country.
Week 488 .
Every day - Our boats go out in the ocean - to fish for plastic pollution and marine debris .
Every month - we fish out 500 kgs of used shoes and sandals - floating in the ocean .
All 500 kg of shoes will be sent for recycling .
Our bit .
Dal khichdi - cooked. Tasty and delicious .
Ready for packing and despatch for 25 to 30 people on the streets / migrant workers .
My bit for today .
Maye the pain ease for people on the streets and migrant workers .
Tough times .
This happens everyday in Mumbai.
3 boats in action for 8 hrs - 6 days a week .
Ocean being cleaned .
On an average 10, 000 kg of plastic pollution plucked out every day .
Bless Our volunteers and
@adidas
India .
Week 196.
Open defecation - a huge problem at versova beach.
Clean toilets and "sense of belonging" mitigates it.
Our local volunteer boys - cleaning and maintaining 52 toilets for past 3 years.
Todays pic of the toilet speaks for itself.
Clean toilet is a basic of life.
Week 316.
Clean Public toilets are integral parts of community based waste management and inspires locals to handle waste properly.
Our bit for the country by cleaning public toilets.
Clean toilets are part of the chain to
#BeatPlasticPollution
and adopt
#circulareconomy
Week 202 .
Young and old steping out to
#BeatPlasticPollution
and to adopt
#circulareconomy
this week by ::
1. Cleaning 2 beaches - Versova and Malad.
2. Training Citizens at 2 location - at the Banks of River Mithi and Borivili national park.
Out bit for mother nature .
Thank you CNN for making me a hero
I may thank you for being generous by bestowing on me what I don't deserve .It is my bit for our ocean
I would love to call myself a hero when the hapless marine species feel safe from our habits of plastic pollution.
Week 324.
Our post litter work - off the coasts of Mumbai .
This week.
48000 kgs of marine debris plucked out from ocean .
1.7 lakh plastic pieces sent for recycling.
Our bit for mother nature.
We know - no other way of loving my country India - than this .
Week 316.
Companies -producing plastic- watch this.
Citizens - littering plastic - watch this.
Government agencies - making laws and policies- watch this.
Picking up plastic from ocean and sending it for recycling is back breaking work.
Our bit for my India and the planet.
Week 167.
Rihansh is 4 years old. He is anxious and worried about marine species, ocean and our future.
He comes out every week for past 1 year to clean the beach.
He calls me Beach Kaka (Uncle).
New young leaders.
Can we make more of them !!!
Week 357 .
Our bit on Sunday.
16,000 kg plastic pollution plucked from the ocean .
Some of this plastic pollutant - change color - from marine litter to value .
Less plastic in ocean .
Less carbon footprint.
Oct 2015 to Nov 2017 - Beach cleaning by bare hands.
Dec 2017 - Angel
@SrBachchan
gifts 2 machines - a tractor and a jungli excavator.
Dec 2017 to Aug 2020 -18 million kg of garbage removed by use of these machines.
Millions of marine species saved from death.
Thank you sir.
Week 355.
Clean public toilets -are part of the ecosystem-of an efficient waste management system and circular economy.
Involvement of locals - to maintain their own toilets clean - accelerates development of a fine system hurling towards - reducing garbage.
Our Supreme duty.
Fresh Vegetable purchase for 40 families - 200 people.
All without - any single use plastic.
Throw and use culture out.
Garbage free life.
My country India gives such an easy way for us to adopt circular economy .
#BeatPlasticPollution
#circulareconomy
#WednesdayWisdom
Week 190 .
River Mithi rejuvenation at full blast today .
@AUThackeray
- the dynamic leader puts his might behind it .
@iramdaskadam
- the environment minister working hard at the ground for liquid waste management .
Thank you
@ivmahadeshwar
- for holding citizens hand .
Week 321.
Happy Birthday My India.
Our Independence day celebration by cleaning India.
Our freedom fighters sacrificed their lives for this independence and we do our bit by following them.
Our rights and Our duties.
12,000 kgs plastic pollution plucked from mother nature.
Week 138 .
#BeatPlasticPollution
.
Heavy rains in Mumbai . And heavy work continues in this incessant rains.
Teaching people to monetize plastic and make them litter free . Zero garbage.
Wonderful to see this spirit of deprived section of the society to work for the nature .
#CycloneNisarga
.
Now - The Arabian sea from my window .
Ocean swollen but calm . Unusually calm .
Is it the lull before the storm ? .
#MumbaiStaySafe
.
Week 189 .
#BeatPlasticPollution
.
3 activities done this week :
1. Cleaning at Dana Paani beach .
2. Cleaning at River Mithi .
3. Training citizens at River Mithi to adopt
#Circulareconomy
.
We do our bit for this week our planet .
Walk the talk is so needed now .
Week 374.
7 years of hard work and continuing.
80 million kgs of marine debris plucked out from the ocean.
More than 2,00,000 citizens trained for reducing garbage.
We know no other way to love ocean than this.
Our sweat and toil got the ocean.
Happy World Oceans day.
The journey at versova started 3 years ago.
We - MCGM & thousands of volunteers worked hard to connect to nature.
The video below speaks aloud.
Personally the time has come to do more for my planet by working at full blast with citizens from another area afresh . I start .
This happens in the Borivili forest in Mumbai everyday.
43 Pada, 25,000 citizen,16 volunteers in action.
1. 24680 kgs of plastic pollution removed after landing in the forest.
2.Before landing in the forest 5278 kgs - ie 7,60,783 plastic pieces were collected and recycled.
Week 182 .
#BeatPlasticPollution
River Mithi rejuvenation is about the river and the citizens living on its bank.
Cleaning , training up people -living on the banks - on waste management and
#Circulareconomy
is the key.
No rejuvenation of the river is possible without it.
Week 164 .
Teaching Circular Economy and garbage segregation to citizens living on the banks of
@RiverMithi
is so fulfilling and deep.
One house at a time.
That much less solid waste in the Mithi River.
Little baby steps- every week for our motherland and our mother nature.
Week 357
River Mithi rejuvenation-this week
Removed 867 kgs of plastic ie 4,33,500 pieces of plastic from the river.
27213 single use plastic pieces ,3322 milk pouches and 884 Pet bottles stopped from entering the river.
Toilet cleaned-36.
Our bit for my India and my planet
My 82 year old mother - blessing in my life and today morning -my moms breakfast with me
11 year old pramod - whom I have brought in my house from the streets . He stays with me - and today morning I take his home work.
Early morning - blessing of the highest order
Pleasure zone.
Plucking plastic from the belly of the ocean .
Our catch - every day .
Thousands of kgs of plastic removed and sent for recycling.
Love for mother nature and mother India.
Love by doing .
@PoojaB1972
Week 385.
Hard work for the country and ocean.
We few do it - wear gloves and holding hands.
If we all do it - billions of hands working for few hours - we will change the planet .
Our bit.
Week 360.
2 Beach cleanup.
1 River Mithi rejuvenation-2 km.
Ocean cleanup- 5 boats.
2 km mangrove cleanup.
800 household buying in bulk - zero garbage homes.
1.2 lakh kg of plastic removed from mother nature.
5 lakh pieces of plastic stopped from entering mother nature.
Extremely long day.On the highway for past 9 hrs
Feeding - juice ,water , biscuits - and ferrying migrants for 70 kms
Millions on the highway - trying to reach home to their loved ones
Heat and exhaustion is their diet and life.
May the pain ease for the poorest of the poor.
A rare fungal infection called Mucormycosis is on the loose on covid recovered/suffering patient.
My mom got this after recovering from covid 7 months back.
She was operated - lost her left eye and is batting for life.
We are being tested to the hilt.
May the pain ease .
Week 349.
Today - Ocean cleanup in remote islands of Mumbai coast.
This month - we plucked out 3,93,400 kg of plastic pollution from ocean.
Some washed and sent for recycle.
This is our service and love for mother nature.
Our love for my India .