The largest ever trek to clean-up Tada Falls, organised on Sunday by Chennai Trekking Club and Sri City (P) Ltd witnessed over 400 volunteers, including children from Chennai-based Sunshine Academy Matric Higher Secondary School. These children collected over 600 kgs of garbage including 200 kgs of empty alcohol bottles and waste left behind by visitors. The collected garbage included massive piles of non bio-degradable plastic, including plastic water bottles and packets. The ‘Save Tada Falls’ mission lasted over six hours where the volunteers trekked over 3 kms of rugged, rocky terrain to collect the debris left behind by visitors.
Sri City is India’s first integrated Business City with a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), a Domestic Tariff Zone (DTZ) and a Free Trade & Warehousing Zone. Chennai Trekkers Club is a voluntary organisation of trekking and nature enthusiasts with over 4000 volunteers. The volunteers, including school children, cleaned a stretch of around 7 kilometres and collected trash from Tada Falls. The collected garbage was taken to Sri City’s state-of-the-art solid waste management system where it was segregated into degradable and non-degradable groups and was treated accordingly further.
Commenting on the occasion, Ravindra Sanna Reddy, Managing Director, Sri City, said “With intense levels of urbanisation, it is sad to note that the environment is being ignored on many accounts.
We are happy to be a part of the ‘Save Tada Falls’ mission along with Chennai Trekking Club in an attempt to restore the original beauty and scenic splendour of Tada Falls. We are very happy to see so many active volunteers who joined us in this cause.” He also added, “We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the Forest Department and the locals for helping us make this event a success.”
Peter Vangeit, Founder, Chennai Trekking Club (CTC), said, “India is blessed with such rich natural beauty. As part of CTC, we have seen the decline of Tada Falls in the last five years due to mindless pollution and vandalism. Our objective is to give a facelift to Tada Falls and place it on the map as a trekker’s paradise again. This event is also aimed at creating awareness among the visitors that they too have a responsibility towards nature by keeping the environs free from pollution and the urgent need to stop all anti-social activities that take place in the region that scare away families and nature enthusiasts.” Shankar of Bio-tec had provided bio-degradable bags for collection of garbage.
Sri City is an emerging world-class Business City located 55-kms from Chennai. It has the distinction of being the largest private sector multi-product Special Economic Zone (SEZ) with a Domestic Tariff Zone (DTZ) in South India built in functional partnership with the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
Well-demarcated industrial zones within the SEZ and DTZ include automotive, engineering, logistics andwarehousing, aerospace, electronics, biotech/pharma and IT/BPO, renewable energy and other eco-friendly industries.
Residential areas, commercial hubs, world-class healthcare, educational institutions, recreation centres and all necessary amenities will support the industrial zones at Sri City making it a truly integrated development for business and lifestyle. For more, visit: www.sricity.in