A city-based lawyer, who was lauded today by Narendra Modi for cleanliness work he has done at the Versova beach here, thanked the Prime Minister saying his words will act as a morale booster.
A city-based lawyer, who was lauded today by Narendra Modi for cleanliness work he has done at the Versova beach here, thanked the Prime Minister saying his words will act as a morale booster.
Afroz Shah, a 36-year-old lawyer at the Bombay High Court, was praised by Modi during the radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' for the cleanliness work done by him and his team to transform the Versova beach.
"A few days ago, you must have heard that the Versova beach in Mumbai, which was infamous for its filth has now transformed into a clean and beautiful beach. People toiled for about 80-90 weeks, unceasingly and turned Versova beach around by extracting thousand of tonnes of waste materials and today Versova beach is clean and beautiful," Modi had said.
"This campaign was owned by Versova Residence volunteer or VRV. A gentleman called Afroz Shah started this mission from October, 2015 whole heartedly with all his might, slowly people started joining his bandwagon and turned into a people s movement.
"For this outstanding work, United Nations Environment Programme or UNEP awarded Champion of the Earth Award to Afroz Shah, and thus he has become the first Indian to achieve this distinction. I congratulate Afroz Shah, and felicitate this people's movement. The manner in which he gathered the people of the area into a peoples collective and gave it the shape of a people s movement in itself an inspiring example," Modi had said.
An elated Shah told
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