Thanks to nature lovers, forest officials and the Vartak Nagar police, the Yeoor forest has been almost cleared of garbage. The forest is popular during the monsoon for outings and several visitors leave garbage behind, especially on gataari amavasya. But this year forest department (FD) officials and the Vartak Nagar police took strict action to ensure no one dirties the place, and succeeded.

Yeoor is an eco-sensitive area but several people indulge in noisy celebrations there, and litter the place with plastic and other garbage including empty alcohol bottles. Nature lovers have been holding drives to clean the place for five years. They spoke to forest officials and the police, who later joined them to help.