Bittu Tabahi clears 585 kg waste in 4 hours from Yamuna in Delhi cleanup drive
Surendra Singh Choudhary, known as Bittu Tabahi, has started a three-day Yamuna clean-up drive in Delhi. The campaign comes after his work garnered global attention, online praise and a job offer.
After cleaning a river in Madhya Pradesh and a forest in Karnataka, Surendra Singh Choudhary, famously known as Bittu Tabahi, has brought his cleanup mission to Delhi’s Yamuna River. On the first day of the three-day drive, Bittu and a group of volunteers removed 585 kg of waste from the riverbank.
Bittu, who shot to prominence for his cleanup drives, began the Yamuna campaign on September 20, observed as World Cleanup Day. Videos from the drive show him and volunteers working along the riverbank, collecting plastic, flowers, garlands and other waste left behind.
The cleanup took around four and a half hours, Bittu said. He shared the tally on Instagram, writing, “September 20, World Cleanup Day. Four and a half hours of cleaning on the banks of the Yamuna, and together removed 585 kg of garbage.”
The effort also brought some residents to the cleanup site. Bittu said people from the surrounding area joined the volunteers and helped clear the stretch.
“Flowers, garlands, worship items, plastic were all scattered on the pier. The people around also came, helped, and the whole shore was cleared. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who came,” he wrote.
He also acknowledged a person named Philip Morris for supporting his work and said Gurugram’s Khedki Daula would be his next stop.
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The Instagram video has gone viral, with thousands of users liking the post. Many also praised Bittu for continuing to take his cleanup efforts to new places.
After cleaning the immensely polluted Ajnar River in Madhya Pradesh, Bittu and his team of 100 people cleaned the Turahalli Forest, located around 20 km from Bengaluru off Kanakapura Road as well.
His work has attracted attention from prominent figures too. Industrialist Anand Mahindra shared his river-cleaning efforts on X, giving the campaign another boost online.
With the Yamuna drive set to continue for two more days, Bittu’s latest campaign is now bringing his hands-on approach to one of the capital’s most prominent and polluted waterways.
The Delhi drive comes at a time when Bittu’s cleanup work has taken on a much larger profile. His efforts to restore the Ajnar River earned him international attention and even a job offer from Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of Dutch environmental organisation The Ocean Cleanup.
Bittu Tabahi has previously spoken about wanting to travel across different parts of India and encouraged people to take cleanliness more seriously. The Yamuna campaign is the latest leg of that journey.