The 6th edition of the Chennai Coastal Cleanup was one of the largest events organized in CTC’s entire history. Numerous like-minded souls with a shared passion for the environment and a vision for a green future worked tirelessly behind the scenes for 2 months to make it a big success. In this email I wish to recognize a few of our key contributors. Apologies upfront if I missed out anyone among these hundreds of volunteers:
Personalities from Mission CCC/6
Siva – One of CTC’s most selfless and tireless volunteers behind the scenes, driving force in our green team. Siva took care of a myriad of things day & night in CCC
Vinod Sundar – Main coordinator for registrations, working with corporates and participating groups, event mailers, involved in numerous aspects of the event
Nambi – driving force behind our youth awareness programs in schools through drawing competitions
Sinthu - took full responsibility for CCC’s awareness programs . Member of the flash mob, writing articles, etc.
Abirami – organized awareness programs in schools through drawing competitions, coordinated with Chennai Corporation for Marina wall paintings
Manoj – creative Davinci who created beautiful artworks, videos, mug designs, posters as part of our ongoing awareness
#NoPlasticChallenge – the awareness campaign which went viral on the social media. Original idea came from Lakshmi Narayanan and was further refined/enhanced/executed by Vinod Sankaran Rathnam Vinoth also roped in our radio partner.
Thilak - Media & Permissions
Ra.Aravind – coordinated with 10 regional NGOs and 9 cities across South India who joined forces alongside mission CCC under the India Clean Sweep umbrella campaign
Designers – Rajiv, Yazar, Shaik Hameed created numerous impactful designs, posters, banners which help us in carrying our message to the public
Kannan from ePageMaker provided his office space as a frequently visited venue for our ongoing planning meetings and practice for the flash mob teams
Deepak & Gupta – helped us in getting permission for the Flash Mob in Express Avenue Mall
Murugesan – provided lot of support, sponsorship, permissions
Aarthi – individually took interest in creating posters and printing them
Chithra – ever active & energetic girl with lots of enthusiasm & cheering others, active member of flash mob and contributor to other initiatives
Sudhir Sambandam - choreographer for Flash mob
Shyam Sundar – video recordings, arranging audio system for flash mob
Arun Krishnamurthy, Skits/Street play. Ex-Googler, founder of Environmentalist Foundation of India who is trying to restore numerous lakes around the city.
Bharathi scouts - MIME show
Mani Kandan - Approaching kabadiwala for recycling of plastics
Bala/Ram - Plastic Quiz, poster design to educate us on the impact of plastics
Masu - CTC Mugs, the paper cup terminator
Ela - CTC Stainless steel bottles, eliminator of the single use plastic bottles
Eswari, Ram - Apartment complexes segregation & recycling
Dawood - CCC/Corporates/Apartments waste mgmt – founder of from Earth Recycler
Sandhya Sourirajan – active CCC blogger. Her posts were shared on various new sites and blogs
Kannan, Dakshniamuurthi, Aswhin, Mathew, Parthasarathy, Radhika - presenters of various workshops on green sustainable practices
Manikandan – t-shirts
Ganesh Gags – editing of promotional videos
Neelambari – creation of promotional videos
Aravind Krishamootrhy – refreshments and lots of other supporting activities
Poonkathirvelan Boopalan – transportation
Hema & Sundari - Event day coordination
Photography – Noel / Nivya
Karthik and team – first aid support through Alert !
Krishna – Yellow bags, plastic monsters
Karmu, paint box - wall painting at Marina and Thirunvanmyur.Fabulous job.
Manoj kumar – nearly single handedly segregated the inventory materials that was distributed to all zone leads on Saturday
Praveen Kumar – garbage collection and transportation. Stayed back till corporation lorries returned back to recycle site
Chennai Corporation – for providing necessary permissions & lorries for trasporations. Chennai Police for permisions & Nisha Thota from Clean Chennai for Coordinating with CTC.
Flash mob team - Abhishek, Ankita, arjun krishnan, arun karthik, Ashok kumar, ashwanth, Bhavya, chellababu, Deepak, dharm, Dinesh, Divya, Eswari, guru, gururaj, Hari, kaamaa, kaavya, Kamal kumar, karthik, karthikeyan, kathir, krishna, krithish babu, kumaresh Vinoth, Nikita, Peter Felix, Poorani, Praveen kumar, Praveen Kumar Sethu Madhavan, Praveen Perumal, Priya, raagavsai, Rishita, Santosh, Saranya, Shanu Divya, Siva, Sonia, Sudhakar, Sudharsana, Sudhir, Suganya, Suresh babu, swati, Vanathi, vighnesh, Vijay, Vinodh Balasubramaniam, Vinoth Langudurai, Vishnu Dayal, Vishnu Sharmam VithyaV, vizznu, yazar, balaji
All our zone leads who coordinated 5500 volunteers during Sunday’s beach and lake cleanup: Durai, Gokul, Venky, Swetha, Arul Lakshman, Kavith Janardhanan, Sulai , Prabhu Delhi Babu, Ganesh Kumar, Pratap, Ashok Rajendran, Jack, Vijayakumar Selvam, Gayathri, virapandy, Mahesh Kumar, Sheik Hameed, M.Balameenakshisundaram, Ganesh, Chitra, Karthik, Vinoth Sankaran, Velmurugan, Chellababu, aPrasanna Ravindran, Girish Chandran, G Arun Prasad, Sreenath Vasu, Satheesh, Sathishsayee, Ganesh, Muthu Kumaran, Aravind Srudhi, Satheesh, Elanchezhiyan, Harikumar S, Dakshinamurthy, Satheesh, Abdul, Vikram, Sanjeev Ramki, Muthamizhan, Sathish, Nambi, Ananth RamBaskar, deepak, mohanakrishnan, Praveen, Silambarasan, Vadivel, Arunajadesh, Yazar, Prabhakaran , Aarthi Rangarajan, Dinesh Kumar R, Srikrishna T V, Praveen, Arabind, Shyam, Ruthra, Magesh, Vibin, Manikandan, hemant vijayraj, Manikandan, Balaji Gunasekaran, Sheik Sameer, Anil Sharma, Vibrant Velachery team - Ram / Sudip, Kannan T K, Rajasekhar Reddy, R.Pramod Chakravarthy, Rutira, Titus, Mano, Shamini, Lakshminarayanan, Thanigaivel M, Anitha, Muthu Kumar Balagurusamy, Rutira, Karthik, Manikandaprabu, Ram, Gautham Chelladurai, Kathi, Muthukumar, Ravi Kumar, Vignesh, thomas, yuvaraj, Sundar, Karthik Thangavel, Ravi Kiran Reddy, Pugaz, RK, Karthik, Pramod Harith, Nakkeeran, Chitra Sharma, Krishnakumar, Ravi Kiran Reddy, Gowtham, Manojkumar P, Bala Paz, Shantha Laxmi, S. Siva Subramanian, Ravi Kiran Reddy, Yasmin (Namma beach namma Chennai), Murali Rangarajan, Vinodbala, Ravi Kiran Reddy, EFI,Thangasami Sivanu, Pallavi, Reeki Mishra, Vinoth Kumar, Sairam J, Aravind Krishnamoorthy, Dilleeshwara
Regional partners - Environmental Foundation of India, RAAC, MC3Trust, Anbum Aramum, Great Hyderabad Adventure Club, Nellai Nature Club, Sacred Heart Intl School, Maram Madurai, Natives of Thanjavur, MEECONS
Sponsors – Federal bank / Isha Homes / Olympia Tech / Green cafe / ACT / Ramco / GAVS / Saint Gobin / Cognizant/ Big FM / Thadani / ISKON
Partners – EFI / Earth Recycler / Uber / News 7
Pondicherry
CTC’s Pondy chapter rocked for the 2nd continuous year in organizing numerous awareness initiatives as part of the Pondicherry Coastal Cleanup:
Sathish, Manikandan, Kannan & Dheebika: Presentation to the School & College Students
Kalai, Arun, Santhosh: Video Screening at Beach Road
Siva, Geetha & Raji: Walkathon & Cycle Rally
Kannan, Ilampirai & Santhosh: Flashmob & Cultural Events
Manimozhi, Vasanth & Prasad: Writeups & Posters
Puthuvai Saravanan, Venkat Siva & Padmanaban: Mime acting
Nikhil, Dharani & Madhavan: Photography
Arun JP, Ramanujam, Dharani, Sathish & Manikandan: Permissions
Brinda, Manimozhi & Kannan: Participants confirmation & Call Coordination
Participating Companies
| ABCO Advisory Services India Pvt Ltd | Innowave Healthcare | SARDAR VALLABHAI PATEL SPORTS ACADEMY |
| Adityaa Agro | Little Flowers School and Avvai Home | Seashore Town Plot Owners and Residents Association |
| Ameex Technologies | Isha Homes India Private Limited | SharePoint Frontier |
| ANCESTORS EDUCATION (P) LTD | J.K FENNER INDIA LIMITED | Shell's colleagues |
| AROBOT Chennai | Jade payments | sohes |
| Art of Living | Jeevitham | SPAAAK |
| Aspire Systems Limited | K2B Solutions | St. Mary's Educational Trust |
| Atmel R&D India Pvt Ltd | K7 Computing pvt ltd | Students |
| AWARE | Karky Research Organization | SUBHAS Scout Group |
| Barclays Shared Services | kidobotikz | Sundram Fasteners Limited |
| Bharathi Scout Group | L & T Infotech | Symrise Private Limited |
| Bhumi | Land mark Constructions | Synergy Maritime Private Limited |
| Care and welfare | Lenox | Tambram thunderbolt running group |
| Caterpillar - ATS, India | LET US CLEAN CHENNAI | Tata Consultancy Services |
| Chennai Astronomy Club | Lions Club of Chennai Triplicane | Techdew UX Design & Consulting Firm |
| Chennai Runners Marina Minnals | Lister Metropolis | Techfront friends forum |
| Chennai Volunteers | MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA LTD MRV | The Anthem of the Phoenix |
| Chromepet Cheetahs | Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India Ltd | The Crew |
| CMA CGM Shared Service Centre India Pvt.Ltd | Mobius knowledge services | The Megha Foundation-Saranalaya children |
| CNSI | Momentive Performance Materials (India) Pvt Ltd | Thiruvalluvar Gurugulam School |
| Cognizant | My Master, Chrompet | Thomson Reuters |
| CPS Global School | Namma Beach Namma Chennai | Thozhan |
| CSC India Pvt Ltd | NiN Society | UST Global |
| Dell Business Process Solution India Pvt Ltd | Nokia Networks | Verizon |
| DEVI ACADEMY SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL | OFFICERS TRAINING ACADEMY | Vernalis |
| Dr.Gupta's Dental Specialties Centre | p.s.senior secondary school | Vibrant Vellachery |
| Ernst & Young Foundation | Panayur Friends Group | Virtusa Software Services |
| Federal Bank Ltd | Paperman | Visual BI Solutions |
| Freshdesk | Pasumai | Visumbu Org |
| Frost & Sullivan | Patel Scouts & Guides | VRV |
| GAVS Technologies Pvt. Ltd | PerkinElmer Healtcare | WABCO India Limited |
| Give Smiles | Ponnovi Creatives | WCCG |
| GLD MOVEMENT | Prokarma Softech Pvt Ltd, DLF | wipro technologies |
| Heat and Control (South Asia) Pvt Ltd. | Quadrant 4 Software Solutions(p) Ltd | Xpitax Solution Pvt ltd |
| HLL Biotech Limited | Rapid Response | Yaavaarkum |
| HTC Global Services Inc | Royal Bank of Scotland | YOUTH FOR SEVA |
| Hyatt Regency Chennai | RR Donnelley | Aam Aadmi Party - TNtt |
| ICON Clinical Research | Saggezza India Pvt Ltd | |
| iNautix Technologies India Private Ltd | Saint Gobain Research India |
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