School girls of Kolkata undertake a clean-up mission for Rabindra Sarobar

Kolkata school girls want to participate in the Bengal Rowing Club Students' Rowing Championship to be held next month and the venue would be the Rabindra Sarobar. That body of water is, right now, in dire straits due to pollution from rotten flowers, shoes, polystyrene plates, liquor bottles, remains of immersed idols and countless polythene bags.
Therefore the students of Modern High School for Girls, along with members of The Bengal Rowing Club (BRC) and NGO Engage India Foundation, have undertaken the task of removing the unwanted pollution in order to make it safe for rowing.
They had done it on March 15 and March 22 and now on April 5.
This has been reported in www.telegraphindia.com dated 6 April 2015.

Other schools like the St. Xavier's, La Martiniere for boys and girls and St. James' have also expressed their willingness to join the drive in the next few weeks. The custodian of the Lake is Calcutta Improvement Trust (CIT) and, as Rajesh Agarwal, convener and regatta secretary of the upcoming championship has indicated, the CIT should take over regular maintenance of the lake.
It seems as per officials of the CIT, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board submits a monthly report on the quality of the Lake water every month and nothing wrong has been found with the quality of water. This has been confirmed by Firhad Hakim, the state minister urban development, under whose department CIT functions. He has said that CIT has not received any complaint regarding the quality of the Lake water and, hence, there is no plan to treat the water.

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