Are you clicking your best selfies, be it with a pout, a celebrity or an ice-bucket for posting on your social networking sites. Then I would say drop the idea as I'm giving you the latest one, which can get you hundreds of likes, comments and appreciation. And if you are lucky enough (for exceptional cases), may be you get an appreciation from our honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi itself. All you need to do is, get a "Jhadoo"(broom), walk into the streets, start brooming and click pictures. And there you go.
Really sorry to say, but this is the latest definition of "Swachhta" in India. If anyone thinks that I am an anarchist or anti-Modi, then they are being judgemental. But like several other Indians, I too have some expectations and complaints too, from our new government and our visionary PM NaMo. And when it comes to his "Swachha Bharat Campaign", I think he needs to add much more to it than just asking some celebs to pose with a 'jhadoo' and posting pictures on social networking sites.
Our honourable PM is very often heard giving examples of countries like Australia and the U.S.A. on cleanliness. but one humble question for Mr. Modi,"Do the citizens of these countries clean their localities?" Well, I don't think so. Isn't it the Municipal Corporations job? Why are we supposed to do that? We are paying taxes after all.
Actually there are several loopholes in this project, especially in its execution. He is asking the citizens to clean their locality. OK. For an instance what even if we do it. If he asks us not to litter, we won't. If he asks us not to spit, we won't. if he asks us to clean our society and not dump the garbage here and there, we won't. Oops! If we don't dump the garbage here and there, then where should we dump it because except a very few localities (which usually fall under the category of posh areas), you will hardly find a dustbin in any. And the irony is, even when the people of an area get a dustbin spending from their pocket, no one comes to collect the garbage and dump it to the dumping grounds.
So, in order to clean India and make its environment healthy and hygienic, we need to have a proper plan regarding the collection and dumping of the garbage. And with a proper plan what required the most is, it's proper execution. The citizens job is to help the system in keeping the country clean by not littering, not spitting, not peeing and not dumping the garbage wherever they feel like.
But, there is a lot is to be done by the government. Strict rules need to be formulated. Fines need to be imposed on those who break the rules. Dustbins need to be provided in every locality. A strict vigil should be there on the Municipal Corporation as it is the biggest defaulter.
So, I request our government not to leave the responsibility of cleaning the country on the citizens alone and do something meaningful in the direction than just posing for the camera.
Really sorry to say, but this is the latest definition of "Swachhta" in India. If anyone thinks that I am an anarchist or anti-Modi, then they are being judgemental. But like several other Indians, I too have some expectations and complaints too, from our new government and our visionary PM NaMo. And when it comes to his "Swachha Bharat Campaign", I think he needs to add much more to it than just asking some celebs to pose with a 'jhadoo' and posting pictures on social networking sites.
Actually there are several loopholes in this project, especially in its execution. He is asking the citizens to clean their locality. OK. For an instance what even if we do it. If he asks us not to litter, we won't. If he asks us not to spit, we won't. if he asks us to clean our society and not dump the garbage here and there, we won't. Oops! If we don't dump the garbage here and there, then where should we dump it because except a very few localities (which usually fall under the category of posh areas), you will hardly find a dustbin in any. And the irony is, even when the people of an area get a dustbin spending from their pocket, no one comes to collect the garbage and dump it to the dumping grounds.
So, in order to clean India and make its environment healthy and hygienic, we need to have a proper plan regarding the collection and dumping of the garbage. And with a proper plan what required the most is, it's proper execution. The citizens job is to help the system in keeping the country clean by not littering, not spitting, not peeing and not dumping the garbage wherever they feel like.
But, there is a lot is to be done by the government. Strict rules need to be formulated. Fines need to be imposed on those who break the rules. Dustbins need to be provided in every locality. A strict vigil should be there on the Municipal Corporation as it is the biggest defaulter.
So, I request our government not to leave the responsibility of cleaning the country on the citizens alone and do something meaningful in the direction than just posing for the camera.
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