Plastic waste management
While we have a clear law on Plastic waste management and solid waste management, our vote bank politics makes mockery of all our efforts. We must have clear policy and control on pavement dwellers, road side squatters, hawkers etc. While we are doing so many exercise of educating children on waste management, educating villagers on waste collection and segregation, we have horrible situation where we have road side people mess up all our efforts. in the process all the swatch Bharat efforts will die and we will mess up our country again.
Whether it is railway station, park area, congested bus stations and even temple premises this class of people mess the area and no amount scolding or educating will change them. Only way is to scold and punish or relocate. This needs lot of political will.
I have following suggestions.
a). install maximum no of collection bins for Solid waste collections which is accessible with very short walking distance. Even in a place like CST station in Mumbai I did not see a collection bin for more than half length of platform.
b). Add at least 4 no of beat cops/ NGO who are authorized to catch and punish the litterers.
c). Hold the local corp-orator and Police station responsible for littering. It is their duty to identify and punish the offenders vigorously. It is a shame to see in city of Mumbai littering happening in every major signal junction where we normally see large no of police force.
d). There is an App now available where we can load pictures of littering and it will automatically map the area and send communication to Police/ward office/corporation. The App can map the entire country. One has to click the photo and send the picture with small comment using Android phone from site and upload.
e). The before and after full size hoardings of each ward/village should help in driving awareness.
f). In railway coaches maximum no of waste bins must be added. It is pity to see very small bins in a coach which gets filled within 10 mins of train starting. All other waste goes into railway track.
Lastly if we really have to see progress, we have to organize at least one week clean up program in the entire country and clean every nook and corner with maximum out of 1.2 billion people and raise level of cleanliness. once done it is easy to monitor and maintain if we take above actions.
Whether it is railway station, park area, congested bus stations and even temple premises this class of people mess the area and no amount scolding or educating will change them. Only way is to scold and punish or relocate. This needs lot of political will.
I have following suggestions.
a). install maximum no of collection bins for Solid waste collections which is accessible with very short walking distance. Even in a place like CST station in Mumbai I did not see a collection bin for more than half length of platform.
b). Add at least 4 no of beat cops/ NGO who are authorized to catch and punish the litterers.
c). Hold the local corp-orator and Police station responsible for littering. It is their duty to identify and punish the offenders vigorously. It is a shame to see in city of Mumbai littering happening in every major signal junction where we normally see large no of police force.
d). There is an App now available where we can load pictures of littering and it will automatically map the area and send communication to Police/ward office/corporation. The App can map the entire country. One has to click the photo and send the picture with small comment using Android phone from site and upload.
e). The before and after full size hoardings of each ward/village should help in driving awareness.
f). In railway coaches maximum no of waste bins must be added. It is pity to see very small bins in a coach which gets filled within 10 mins of train starting. All other waste goes into railway track.
Lastly if we really have to see progress, we have to organize at least one week clean up program in the entire country and clean every nook and corner with maximum out of 1.2 billion people and raise level of cleanliness. once done it is easy to monitor and maintain if we take above actions.
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Who bothers for a clean India? After all this can't be an one man show! The Swachch Bhart Mission came into being two years ago when the present government came into being. Since then what has been the role of the opposition, particularly, those who ruled the country for most of the time but never wanted to give a clean and hygienic atmosphere to the citizens to live in? They had always been concerned to rule & loot befooling the people and now on losing the power they have become restless to regain the reign of the country by hook or crook and making the people fools again. They are afraid of success of the mission as well as other programmes of public welfare initiated by the present government, as they are aware that even if a few of those proammes succeed, these opportunist leaders will be rejected by the voters for ever. Hence they kept themselves thousand miles away from all these public welfare schemes, whereas success depends on wholehearted participation by all. 2 It would not be fair to accuse only the hawkers, pavement dwellers, squatters, and other down trodden people for littering and making places dirty in other way. I find many people appearing educated and belonging to higher standard littering & spitting on the roads, urinating on walls in open but the trend is to always blame these poor people everything odd. 3 Though Swachch Bharat Mission came into being two years ago, our governments and local bodies (who are primarily responsible for cleanliness and collecting taxes from the residents for the purpose) could not yet provide bins at convenient public places, construction of toilets & urinals are still on papers (though instances of large corruptions have come up in the mean time), how could we expect the public to behave and take care of cleanliness. Our first priority should be 'cleaning up of corruptions in every front). 4. Until littering, spitting on roads, urinating/defecating in open and all other acts making places and atmosphere dirty and unhygienic made criminal acts as well as police and other concerned authorities are made responsible and punished for their failure to catch hold the offenders, we will have to continue in the present state.
Jun 26
How to deal with the problem? That is the question. 1. We say we have a law against the crime. Yes, but who will implement/ execute the this law? There is a phrase " the cow in the picture will not eat grass". Yes. A law will be effective only when it is implemented/ executed. The local govt. has the authority. But it is a body of regretful politicians. Whether there is any other law to make local govt. liable if it has not implemented the law. No. 2. If you say YES, I shall give you an example. Last month, in Kuala Lumpur, there was a heavy rain, then all the roads flats etc. flooded in muddy rain water. the flood occurred due to the laxity of the Municipal Corporation in clearing / maintaining the drainage system. The affected public went the Supreme Court of Malesia against the Municipality for damages. There is a provision for that in their law. We also should have such a provision. 3. The shop keepers/ tea vendors etc. of a particular area should be made liable for accumulating garbage in their look out area. The for licencing Shops or commercial buildings should contain such a provision. Then they will watch the same. 4. If any body committed a crime the punishment should be heavy. 5. In due course, the cleanliness will be a part of the culture. On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Subba Bangera wrote: >
Jun 07
Yes it is very difficult to destroy plastic, we have not been able to educate our children how to walk, how to drive, how to walk on road and trying to adopt western countries systems, to day we are facing congestion problem on road and spending money on road construction, I remember my father and mother during our childhood used to take us out of the house and on road for a walk and use to ensure that we follow rules of road, now a days parents stop the traffic if their child is walking on the road. Its we have taught them wrong way of walking on road. How can we expect them not throw plastic on road or road side???? It is we who hv to teach our children so that we are able to over come this problem in years to come. Rajiv S. Mehta B-402, Rutva Heights, Opposite Gayatri Party Plot, Gotri, Vadodara
Jun 04
Very valuation suggestions needs to be implemented rather than academic discussion. We all are responsible to implementation. But the prime responsibility lies with the local authorities including Police/Ward officer/Corporater. They should be held responsible, with necessary action on them, for the implementation of cleanliness in their respective area. They should educate, motivate and help the people in their area to keep cleanliness. Only joint effort can make it a success.
Jun 01
