The Chief Minister also interacted with school children who participated in the drive at Versova on Sunday afternoon.Chandrachud, a former Bombay high court judge, had mentioned how the initiative resumed after a hiccup with help from the office of the Maharashtra chief minister.Fadnavis and Aaditya joined the beach cleaning drive with activist Afroz Shah, who has won praise from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for the initiative. Shah, whose initiative to clean up the Versova beach was suspended after facing harassment from some anti-social elements resumed today.Beach parasols for saleVersova beach cleaning Fadnavis joins beach cleaning initiative with December 3, 2017Fadnavis congratulated Shah and the ‘entire team’ for relentlessly contributing towards the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.AUThackeray was present too.. Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday muddied their pants picking trash as the Versova beach cleanup campaign resumed after a brief gap.Supreme Court Justice D Y Chandrachud, while delivering a speech in Mumbai at the National Conference on Environment on Saturday, had spoken about a “young Afroz Shah and volunteers, including celebrities, ordinary citizens, slum-dwellers and politicians alike” who were transforming the beach in what the UN Environment has dubbed, the largest cleanup.CM congratulates this entire team for relentlessly contributing towards Abhiyan!CM interacted with school children. pic.Fadnavis congratulated activist Afroz Shah and the ‘entire team’ for relentlessly contributing towards the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.twitter.When the cleanup resumed at Versova beach on Saturday, hundreds of students from schools and colleges had lined up in their bright uniforms, to do their bit.Shah, whose initiative to clean up the Versova beach was suspended after facing harassment from some anti-social elements, had last month met the Maharashtra chief minister, who had assured him all help in the cleanliness campaign.

This is used on a regular basis to cart away enormous volumes of sand.The guidelines focus on standard environmental conditions for sand mining, which includes sustainable mining practices, monitoring the mining of mineral and its transportation, noise management, air pollution and dust management, management of visual impact, bio-diversity protection, management of erosion, waste management and pollution prevention.The highest number of illegal mining instances have been recorded in the state as per data by the ministry of environment, forest and climate change.The NGO, Awaaz Foundation wrote to the Konkan division office asking that illegal sand mining be stopped.The NGO also claimed that numerous bullock carts cross from Awas to Kihim beach and mine large quantities of sand illegally. “We will go through the matter and take action accordingly,” said Dr Jagdish Patil, divisional commissioner. “A permanent access road at low tide for bullock carts has been constructed from Awas to Kihim beach across the nullah, which is accessible at low tide. It recorded around 1,39,700 illegal  mining cases between 2013 and 2017. “We have received several complaints from all the districts except Sindhudurg and Mumbai region,” Jagdish Patil, Konkan Division Commissioner.After receiving complaints repeatedly in 2017, the local police had cracked down the illegal sand mafia at Kihim beach, however, the illegal practice has again surfaced in the area.State tops in illegal miningMaharashtra has highest number of cases of non-compliance of sustainable sand mining management guidelines, 2016. According to data submitted in the Lok Sabha on Friday, the ministry received seven major complaints regarding non-compliance last year, out of which six were from Maharashtra and one from Himachal Pradesh. Years of sand mining have taken a toll on the Kihim and Awas beaches in Raigad district. Instances of felling of trees at the site were also reported earlier. It shows that few villagers are in hand in glove with the sand mafia,” added Ms Abdulali. Mumbai: Non-profit organisation Awaaz Foundation has alleged that sand mining continues to be rampant at Kihim beach despite several complaints being made to the authorities.On Thursday, the NGO wrote to the Konkan Division Office asking that illegal sand mining at the beach be stopped. “The entire beach has already been seriously impacted by sand mining, which still continues at the creek that intersects Kihim and Awas beaches.Meanwhile, the Konkan divisional commissioner has maintained that immediate action would be taken. While the police had taken action earlier, miscreants keep emerging and destroying the beach further,” said Ms Abdulali. As a result of it, the level of sand in Kihim beach has dropped by over 10 to15 feet, claimed Sumaira Abdulali, founder of Awaaz Foundation. Awaaz Foundation claimed that around 15 bullock carts were spotted loading sand from the beach.According to Konkan division officials most of the cases arise in Raigad district, followed by Ratnagiri and Thane region.. Balcony umbrella Bullock carts at Kihim beach illegally carting sand from Kihim beach.

Tourists can walk through beautiful rain forests in various beaches around Havelock which are known for its soft powdery sand. A good humoured fisherman shows off his catch. The original inhabitants of the islands are six aboriginal tribes.Barefoot has the best divers and diving school in Havelock — tourists get one on one attention on the Elephant Beach when they do scuba diving. For seven years between 2007 to 2014, tourists, movie makers and photographers from around the world travelled to Havelock to swim with the 66-year-old Rajan.Radhanagar has been voted among the 10 best beaches in the world and there’s ample reason why. It was a public one — Radhanagar Beach, and hence I didn’t want to take a chance. It is just 1,255 km from Kolkata and 110 km from Chennai. As many as 32 species of mammals and 95 species of birds call the island home. Beach umbrella with mesh pocket The first streaks of the morning sun were forcing its way through the thick canopy of leaf and wood — an effect often seen, when bullets riddle a wall. Dozens of beaches that can give Seychelles or the Maldives a run for their money. Bright green gecغير مجاز مي باشد rustled through the brown dry leaves, which had fallen out of favour. He was adopted by the Barefoot Resort where he lived until his death in 2016. The water is warm — its colour oscillating between cobalt blue and turquoise, the waves not too ominous, the sand as white as it can get.The famous lighthouse of Elephant Beach. The largest animal on the island is the wild pig. The sea here too is a rich repository of life — 1,200 species of fish swimming at any given point of time.A wedding setting on the Radhanagar Beach with an Indian Navy warship anchored a few kilometres away.The day’s fresh catch left to dry on the beach by a local fisherman. Scientists say there are 12 different types of forests on the island and over 2,200 species of flowering plants, of which 200 are endemic.One had to be careful walking through the thick forest of gigantic sea Mohua trees as the light was far from being amply bright and the serpentine roots had laid an exhaustive network — almost resembling the complicated human neural anatomy. It was definitely going to get crowded, I thought.Around 572 islands together form the Andaman which is home to 85 species of endemic snails, 40 amphibians, 30 reptiles and thousands of species of insects.The remains of a printing press run by the British on Ross Island near Port Blair.The writer explores the hidden beauty of havelock Islands in this stunning photo-feature.The King coconut which comes in three distinct colours — orange, yellow and green is the favourite drink. Welcome to India’s best kept secret — the Havelock Islands of Andaman.Breakfasts are laid out in dense forests. Hardly any tourists anymore — always giving one a feeling that you own the beach.Radhanagar was also once the backyard of India’s most famous deep sea swimming elephant — Rajan.The place can easily make you feel like a billionaire.Havelock’s most enduring lone tree on the beach.The tusker swam to fame in the 2006 Hollywood movie The Fall. It boasts of a 2,000 km long coastline, 92 per cent of which has thick forest cover. One can snorkel and swim — get views of some of the world’s most colourful and active coral colonies.. Not one soul anywhere — only the sound of waves crashing on the shore and sometimes an occasional cry of an indigenous bird.King coconuts — found abundantly in Havelock are delicious.The island is covered by dense forests of elephant ear plants. As I walked through the forest to get to what was powdery white sand and peppermint blue water, it dawned on me how secluded, how private the whole experience was turning out to be.This is where Hollywood mega stars like Kate Winslet and billionaires like the prince of Dubai and اين نام مجاز نمي باشدn Tata come to holiday in private, to vegetate, far from public eye, not a soul to disturb them.Two minutes from my luxurious room at a resort — nestled in the midst of a thick rain forest was the beach. However only 38 of the islands are inhabited.