tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60783083168139081632011-11-28T05:59:22.016+05:30Delhi is what it is if we see it from the point of view of cleanliness. Enter any locality and you find garbage strewn around, un-repaired roads and broken footpaths everywhere. Who is responsible? Have we ever demanded from politicians to do something on this issue ?VINOD VARSHNEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16941677007576546899noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6078308316813908163.post-91139327507850717532010-07-06T12:37:00.003+05:302010-07-07T08:00:54.389+05:30

Delhi Needs Cleaner Politicians By Vinod Varshney Delhi needs to be cleaned of dirty politicians and sycophant media. This can be understood in the context of Bharat Bandh organized yesterday. “Bharat Band” was a political necessity for opposition parties and a matter of faith in democratic system for people of India. Definitely it was much needed in view of the arrogance of the Congress

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DDA made to kneel before LawWritten by Vinod Varshney This fortnight-old havoc on road is unbelievable but true. The debris shown here is a soul-wrenching comment on those who have made religion a corrupt business. The huge pile of debris on the main road of Mayur Vihar Phase II, in East Delhi is created by Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and is not prepared to clear it. So DDA itself is

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No Cleanliness onJanmashtami Writes Vinod VarshneyImpressions of last night remains …fragrance of music from electronic gadgets, lights mingling cheerfully with children’s enthusiasm … Krishna Leela (Deeds of Lord) depicted in thousands of creative ways with modern plastic toys… in lanes, parks, halls and homes, thousands of playful cultural enactments though less crowd due to swine flu scare.

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Clean the Mentality FirstAs Commonwealth Games draw nearer, there is worry all round among concerned officials and leaders about Delhi’s looks. Those who have travelled abroad say that it is one of the dirtiest cities owing to its hopeless garbage collection system.The real problem is the unclean mentality here, which pervades wider than the garbage one finds strewn around on streets of Delhi,

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Indian Voters For Cleaner Delhi Writes Vinod VarshneyFinally the voters of India have accomplished a cleansing job. They have thrown some of the political garbage in the dumpster. But one is not sure what political ragpickers will do of it now. May be they still find some of the garbage as saleable commodity like polythene bags which are picked up for sale and recycled. Anyhow I hope that Delhi

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Cleaner Delhi depends on who is the new PMWrites Vinod VarshneyWill Delhi be any cleaner in coming years? Much would depend on what type of government comes at the centre – stable or shaky. It will also depend on who becomes the Prime Minister and what would be the new initiative for quality governance, one area where Man Mohan Singh failed.If governance is cleaner then of course Delhi would be

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Corporatization of Garbage ?Writes VINOD VARSHNEYThe ongoing practice can make anyone depressed in Delhi. Unorganized private hands do the dirtiest part of garbage collection. This is done by aprroximately 150,000 independent ragpickers in Delhi. The way they do it, is a shame on modern city like Delhi. I have shown this in a couple blogs earlier by way of pictures. It is risky for their health

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Daughters of Cleaner DelhiWrites Vinod VarshneyDelhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights took swift action recently when two children died in Delhi schools. What about those who are daughters of men and women who make Delhi cleaner ? Shanno, an 11-year-old girl of class II died in a hospital after she was allegedly punished by her teacher of MCD Primary School on April 17. Aakriti (17), an

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SIN OF DELHIWho cares for climate change? Tons of leaves are burnt in Delhi every day. Writes VINOD VARSHNEYLeaves are high valued waste which can easily be converted into manure, yet it is not done. Today there are modified worms to make compost quickly, yet it is not done. Scavengers on streets and gardeners in parks make a heap of leaves and burn it like a pyre. Municipal Corporation of Delhi

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The Garbage Segregation Delhi Style !Writes VINOD VARSHNEYSegregation is a key to efficient disposal of garbage. Those who generate it are supposed to do it in their homes. But Delhi has a different style. While passing by I happened to see a garbage dump in Naib Sarai area of Delhi. Such scenes are normal in Delhi, yet it does not trouble anybody's conscience. You can get an idea of what I am

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Eyesore Delhi can dream ofzero garbage in 5 yearsGo anywhere a little inside, Delhi roads are littered with stinking garbage. But the city has a dream. Will it ever be fulfilled ?Writes VINOD VARSHNEYDelhi, the City of Garbage can expect in next five years to become a zero garbage city. Sounds unbelievable to NGOs and Resident Welfare Associations, but municipal officials insist that new

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Corporate Course at IGNOU IGNOU is on the spree to start fancy courses, which can mint money for this university. The latest in the series is the one year course on Corporate Education, Training and Consultancy. The Coordinator Prof R R Nair tells what this course is about and how it is the need of the hour to Surabhi Yadav, a member of my team. Please listen by clicking on the black arrow below

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INDIA IS G rrr eat !!Writes VINOD VARSHNEYIf one takes a tour of Delhi and ventures to go to its inner areas away from main roads, the city shocks. It can be labeled as City of Garbage. Why this remains so? Who are the people responsible for this? Why citizens of Delhi tolerate all this? These are the questions which bother everybody, yet no solution in sight. I live trans-Yamuna at Indraprastha

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City of Grbage That is Delhi Capital city Delhi has been rendered a city of garbage. What it would look like if street boys like 19 year Ali does not clean up a little bit every night before MCD truck comes to mechnically lift these bins and empty them. When every body goes to sleep this boy comes out and pick up papers, plastic and card board from the garbage bins. It takes him three hours to

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A few days ago I entered IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) campus and found a couple of interesting sights. These tell a story normally remain unobserved in a daily humdrum of life. I wish to shares my impressions of the campus through a couple of pictures I shot.

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Unique Way of Scavenging Roads of DelhiThat is the unique way of scavenging streets of Delhi. Scavenger would collect meticulously all garbage at one place. With this his or her job is over. Who would collect it and transport it to landfill site? It is, of course, the job of someone else. But, there is hardly any co-ordination between these two jobs. Thus the garbage collected on road remains on

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There is a way-out to make Delhi clean. Delhi government started a Bhagidaari Scheme in several sectors. The same with a different model should be tried out here. In this model in each loacality volunteers can be enrolled to monitor on line the cleaning schedule. The involvement of citizens be ensured only for monitoring and not for getting the work actually done. Vounteers can be trained with

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Will Delhi ever be clean? Commonwealth Games have facilitated local government to have big budget to spend on fancy projects in order to make it look like Singapore. A lot many expansion projects are going on. Metro is being paraded as one big success. But I doubt even by the time of the Games, the cleanliness in the city would even marginally be improved. I don't talk of wider important roads.

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