My Wari, Swacch Wari' Continues to Inspire Community Action in Its Ninth Year

A team of over 1400 volunteers, NGOs and Gram panchayats, Nagar Parishads teamed up to collect dry waste over a period of five days from 9th July  to 13th July 2026. The cleanliness drive was a part of ‘My Wari, Swach Wari’ movement initiated by ‘Adar Poonawalla Clean City Initiative’(APCCI) to help clean Palkhi route covering a total 140 km of roads from Pune city till Saswad and Yawat. This is the tenth year of the initiative.

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, Kadamwak Wasti, Dive Kalewadi, Zhendewadi Yavat along with Saswad and , Fursungi nagar parishads and Khadki and Pune Cantonments  and volunteers from these  areas and villages along with Pune Municipal Corporation who have been a valuable part of the campaign. 24 volunteer groups and 25 institutions including NGOs, Companies and Schools actively participated.

This year APCCI installed 50 green nets at various places to enable volunteers to collect and segregate waste without any hassles. Also, more than 167 garbage pickup vehicles and machines were pressed into service. The dry waste, which was collected separately, which included plastic bottles, paper cups etc. The volunteers were provided with material for cleaning including plogging bags.

The activity was led under the guidance of Mr. Krishnan Komadur, CEO APCCI, Mr. Malhar Karwande, COO APCCI, Mr. Aashish Marathe APCCI and Mr. Sathya Natarajan, Lead Volunteer, APCCI. All managers and supervisors actively participated in the initiative to make it a success.