Mass cleaning programme conducted on HC Bench premises

A mass cleaning programme was conducted on Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, following instructions from Administrative Judge Justice S.S. Sundar. Participants included judges, advocates, registry officials, CISF jawans, Forest Dept. officials & sanitary workers. Safety equipment was provided & they swept dust & dry leaves, cleaned parking lot & banks of a ‘kanmoi’. Justice Sundar interacted with sanitary workers & spoke about main objective. Waste collected & disposed of, & over 30 saplings planted near banks of ‘kanmoi’. Periodical mass cleaning programmes conducted & a ‘Greenery & Ecology Committee’ constituted to maintain campus ecology.

In a bid to create awareness of a clean environment, a mass cleaning programme was conducted on Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court premises on Thursday.

The exercise was conducted following instructions from the Administrative Judge of the Bench Justice S.S. Sundar. High Court judges, advocates, High Court Registry officials, CISF jawans, Forest Department officials and sanitary workers from Madurai corporation participated in the exercise.

Safety equipment was provided to them. They swept the dust and dry leaves collected on the roads leading to the advocates’ chambers. They also cleaned the parking lot and the banks of a ‘kanmoi’ on the High Court premises.

Justice Sundar interacted with the sanitary workers who were deployed for the mass cleaning programme and spoke about the main objective of the exercise. The sanitary workers collected and disposed of the waste that included plastic water bottles and covers.

Earlier, the participants planted over 30 saplings near the banks of the ‘kanmoi.’ The Bar Associations of the High Court Bench donated the saplings. Periodical mass cleaning programmes are conducted on the High Court Bench premises. A ‘Greenery and Ecology Committee’ has been constituted to maintain the ecology of the campus.