For 53 weeks amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Mumbai’s Dawoodi Bohra community, which takes pride in its social initiatives, has been educating people in Marol about protecting the environment. The efforts have borne fruit now, as locals decided to put what they learnt to use this Ganesh Chaturthi.

Dr Murtaza Kothawala, who has been an integral part of the project with the community and who is a Marol resident himself, says it was a beautiful outcome for the campaign. He explains, “We went to a new area called Sai Baba Nagar in Marol to raise awareness about keeping the area clean with a zero-waste approach. Luckily, we met some committee members of the Sai Baba Nagar temple, who called the society members and we had three meetings with them about protecting the environment.”