India, July 23 -- Stepping up efforts to encourage the citizens' participation in the Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC's) 'cleanliness mission', Pune municipal commissioner Naval Kishore Ram has attended at least three separate events over the past few days, consistently urging citizens, community leaders, and organisations to work actively with the civic body to maintain a clean and robust Pune.

At one such event scheduled on Monday, the municipal commissioner held a meeting with Ganesh mandal representatives, citizens, and activists, wherein he encouraged the mandals to go beyond festive celebrations and actively participate in sanitation initiatives during Ganeshotsav. "Apart from organising celebrations, the mandal volunteers should...