"SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN"

Our Prime Minister Narender Modi’s campaign of “Swachh Bharat” is commendable. He is a forward looking person and has a vision of clean India in the future. He thinks deeply on every aspect be it small or big. He posse’s deep reasoning due to which every citizen is looking forward to a powerful India which would beat the west.

Although, the citizens are responsible for keeping the country clean, still the onus is on the Municipal Corporations of respective cities. It so happened that our sweeper did not turn up for 5-6 days consecutively, and this was not his first time. I approached the resident welfare association many times, however nothing changed. Then I registered a complaint with MC Chandigarh. To my astonishment I received a reply that they are not responsible for door to door collection of garbage and I need to resolve the matter of my own. I could not even switch to some other sweeper as the sweepers have their own unions and they do not let anybody else work in their place and themselves remaining absent from work at their will. Under the circumstances what are the options with the citizens. They would not go a mile away everyday to dump the garbage as they are already paying for these services. The garbage in their houses would attract multitude of germs and flies. Usually people dump the garbage in nearby places like grounds, roads or even sidewalks. This is the general scenario of people in every city in India.

I fail to understand why not Municipal Corporations think on this basic aspect. They go abroad on expensive study tours using the public money and could not even resolve such petty issues. If only Municipal Corporations hire sweepers for door to door collection of garbage and charge a fee towards it, it would not only provide employment to many serious working poor but would also generate money to the Municipal corporations. I have been to US and I see that the Public Utility collects garbage 2-3 times a week and people keep two cans outside their homes, one green for recyclable garbage and other black for other trash. These are provided by the Public Utility against a charge and it is mandate for every household to keep two such cans.  Can’t our Municipal Corporations work something on these lines?  It’s time for the Municipal corporations to wake up and do their bit towards Swachh Bharat Abhiyan