Overview
- Mayor-designate Sharmila Pimpalolkar led the campaign from Ashtavinayak Chowk with a cleanliness pledge, with on-site reports noting a 7:30 am start despite an official 7:00 am schedule.
- Work covered Kopri village, Kanhaiya Nagar, Siddharth Nagar, Bara Bangla and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Chowk under the Naupada–Kopri ward.
- Around 700 sanitation workers were deployed with jetting machines, water tankers, JCBs, construction-and-demolition waste vehicles and 10-tonne compactors, and roads were washed using treated sewage-plant water.
- Residents joined corporators and senior civic officials, and more than 50 students from multiple schools participated to promote waste segregation and cleanliness.
- Parallel reporting highlighted Aarey Milk Colony tribal hamlets renewing appeals for regular garbage collection to protect the surrounding forest and wildlife.