Adar Poonawalla Clean City Initiative

Various NGOs and around 1200 volunteers from Gram Panchayats participated to collect dry waste  Pune, 27 June 2025: A team of over 1200 volunteers, NGOs and Gram panchayats teamed up to collect 130 tons of dry waste over a period of four days from 20 June to 24 June 2025. The cleanliness drive was a part of ‘ MyWari, Swach Wari ’ movement initiated by ‘ Adar Poonawalla Clean CityInitiative ’(APCCI) to help clean Palkhi route covering a total 140 km of roads from Pune city till Saswad and Yawat. The cleanliness drive is conducted every year where the roads are cleaned within few hours of Palkhi procession by Adar Poonawalla Clean City, Gram panchayats of Loni Kalbhor, Kunjirwadi, Sortapwadi, Uruli Kanchan, Wadki, Saswad, Dive Kalewadi, Zhendewadi, Yavat and volunteers from these villages along with Pune Municipal Corporation who have been a valuable part of the campaign.   This year APCCI installed 65 green nets at various places to enable volunteers to collect and segregate ...