INDIA IS G rrr eat !!
Writes VINOD VARSHNEY
If 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 Extension. This colony came into existence some 20 years ago. Expectations were that the colony would be better than many as it was a planned one, based on new concept of cooperative group housing.
But even after twenty years the streets here remain littered with garbage. One can see everywhere much publicized Green and Blue plastic garbage bins in the area, but truly they themselves have become model pieces of garbage. Many of them have become ramshackled, others have melted at places by fire, scavengers lit for getting rid of burnable garbage.
Moist and bio-degradable garbage in these bin stinks. A truck, of course comes every morning with mechanized system to lift these plastic bins up in the air to empty. But before they come street boys toil overnight and scour the garbage to pick paper, plastic and card-board from bins to earn their livelihood. "How much do you earn", I asked.
“ Rs 80 per day by selling paper, plastic and cardboard collected here. It takes me three hours to do it”, tells Ali.
So, thousands get livelihood in the capital of India this way! Truly, thanks to our leaders, India hai Mahaan!!( India is G rrr eat !!)
the situation indeed appears to be horrible. I feel to startwith if all of just stop using this polythene bags and take out our good, old cloth bags, it would also help in decreasing the quantum of this garbage.
ReplyDeleteThe main problem is that WE are also incorrigible to a great extent. With so much disposable income of the metro dwellers has come so much garbage in the form of so much non-biodegradable packaging material ---------------that,just thinking of the magnitude of problem brings frontal headache,sir. And pity for that rag-picker ---that poor chap is inviting all sorts of helath problem. But then how do he support his family?
--are we ready with some alternatives for him. Let's think it over.
God bless this boy because he is in a way helping us only ----------of course, putting his health in danger in the process because I find people also are at times so insensitive in throwing away all sorts of garbage in that dustbin----it includes broken glass, disposable needles.
Yes, please keep up the good work of increasing awareness about the environmental issues,sir.
Sirji, i feel that you please remove this comment moderation from your blog. When I started writing, I also did the same thing. Then friends starting writing me that you need to remove that. so, I followed their advice.
ReplyDeleteSir, do we go for comment moderation because we want to ward off some unpleasant comments/remarks. But I know one thing -----------Whatever we speak about others, speaks more strongly about us only !!
I feel that a person who is giving comment to a blog feels good if his comment is published immediately ---- rather than waiting for appoval of the blog owner. Please,sir,give it a thought.