Hill is being flattened to make way for a golf course in the area; NGO NatConnect Foundation informed authorities about quarrying activity at the spot in May 2022
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The Mumbai Ploggers community combines fitness with clean-up drives
MUMBAI: In October last year, a jogger who stepped out of the confines of the lockdown to go trekking in the Kharghar Hills found herself fuming. Instead of views of flowers, butterflies and waterfalls along the climb, she found her eyes resting on cups, wrappers, beer bottles and even mattresses left behind by people increasingly flocking the wide open expanse. Frustrated with the amount of litter mottling the otherwise pristine terrain, Rashmi Singh, 23, found resolution in plogging a mashup of the words ‘jogging’ and ‘plocka upp’, Swedish for ‘pick up’ a Scandinavian fitness craze where people pick up litter while jogging or brisk walking as a way to save the climate and get into shape.