Every year during the Tamil month of “Panguni”, (March-April) a 10 days festival is performed by Kapaleeswarar Temple, situated in Mylapore, Chennai, in which various spiritual & cultural will take place. Rath Festival and procession of 63 Nayanmaars are part of the event, in which lakhs of people participate. Needless to mention, a huge amount of garbage gets piled up after the event.
As part of the initiative to keep the environment clean, Chennai Math together with Sri Ramakrishna Mission Students Home, took up the mammoth task of cleaning the 4 Mada Streets of Kapaleeswarar temple on Monday 21st March 2016. About 400 students from Students Home and 60 volunteers of Math took part in this noble cause, which began at 10 pm and completed around 3 am on the night of 22nd March 2016.
Math also distributed butter milk and cool drinks to nearly 10000 people during the festival.
