Vasco's Gujarati body to take up ‘plastic free' mission

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VASCO

The members of the group have decided to make about 1,000 cotton bags to be distributed free of cost to various people of Vasco visiting market area through a programme in association with the Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC).
"The bags are ready and are being printed with ‘Mission plastic free Vasco' and will be distributed soon," informed SVGS president Dipak Shah.
Shah, SVGS vice-president Jagdish Bhanushali, secretary Suresh Patel and others addressed the media at a hotel on Saturday.
Shah said about 2 months ago, the Samaj members had visited a Kannada school with 70 students and found out that the students faced difficulty in getting water and the Samaj had donated steel water bottles to 70 students and vacuum flasks to 10 teachers of the school. "The Samaj carried out electrical repairs in the school," said Shah.
The Samaj, which has already spent about Rs 50,000, will organise a musical evening ‘Golden Melodies' at Ravindra Bhavan on November 12, a fund raiser for various social activities under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Swaccha Bharat Abhiyan.
The Samaj plans to distribute books to the students of Kannada school and the students will create awareness about plastic menace.
"This will be our first fund raising event and the proceeds from this event will be utilised for other projects. This will be a continuous process and we have started with a small school as a big school would be difficult to start with. However, we will distribute stationery and books to underprivileged schools of other schools."
Vice-president Bhanushali said he is a trustee of a Goushala at Siquerim and recently they operated a cow with the help of a vet from Belagavi and it was revealed that the cow had 60 kgs plastic in the stomach.