Posting advertisement videos and print media sloganeering is not enough to motivate people to keep their surroundings clean. The rich people are not bothered and will discard bottles and used tissue and food containers and cans, from their car windows. The poor are not bothered either. They will urinate at any 'secluded' spot or any corner of the road or between parked cars, and they will spit any where and from any place. Shopkeepers throw rubbish just outside their shop and no one can do anything about it.
Often there is no choice, but to throw wrappers and containers onto the space away from your own. Especially train and bus travellars, prefer to discard rubbish through the window of their vehicle, rather than into the vehicle. No one is bothered to put rubbish into their bags. Travelling by train, all passengers throw used paper teacups, vadapau paper trays, soiled newspaper of samosas or vadas, empty pet water bottles, bhel wrappers, biscuit and chocolate wrappers, etc. The rubbish crescendoes just after Dadar, Karjat, Lonavla. How else should the travellers discard their rubbish? When you travel in the Japanese bullet train or on the train up the Swiss alps, each bogie has a garbage bin, but then there are limited passengers, only as many as can be seated. No standees are allowed. On Indian trains, if one is lucky enough to get into the train and stand, sit or squeeze between co-travellers, then you are lucky.
So, the message given by the governing bodies that plastic needs to be banned, but all the garbage is not plastic. Even paper rubbish is an eyesore and an environmental hazard.
If one travels by any local train or outstation train from Mumbai, it is a horrible sight to look out of the window. The worst is Ulhasnagar, because it is extremely full of garbage and even the stench is unbearable. How do the people there survive and remain healthy, is beyond belief.
The defecating and urinating on the train tracks has not diminished. When the slum dwellers have to sleep on footpaths or roads, where are they expected to defecate? Urban beggars and slum dwellers, defecate on plastic bags and then push it into any drain, the cover of which they manage to pry open.
I am not a homeless person, but even I have a problem of not getting to use a public facility when needed urgently. Some of the bad spots are CST terminus, Churchgate station, Crawford Market, Gateway, Byculla, Fountain, Mumbai university, and of course any local railway station. Even if the loos are available, for pay and use, the doors are broken, or they are soiled, or unclean, too crowded, not safe as the doors of the loos are broken, or the ladies loos are locked, etc. The Zoo has been renovated with an ugly facade, sporting snakes, but the toilets are only accessible to the security guards, public has to use the badly maintained prehistoric loos inside the zoo, horrible! Shop till you drop at Colaba Causeway and then control your urge to urinate, unless you want to stand in an endless line at the public loo near the Gateway, or use the one at the Macdonalds outlet or Westside.
MLAs and MPs should visit the public loos and check out the sorrowful state that most of them are in. Maybe Salman Khan should visit the CST loo and improve it, like he did to the prison loos that he had experienced. Please sir, the governing bodies, especially the Shiv Sena, is indifferent to the problems of the public, you could do yeoman service instead. Of course, the Big B only wants to be featured in expensive ads about public defecation etc, only if were to walk on the road and visit a loo at any station, or travel in a local train, then I would believe all that he advertises, otherwise your swatchch Bharat ad campaign is just Modi-worship-Modi-appeasement. No one would urinate on the road, if the alternative was feasible, available and reachable.
I wonder if the high and mighty, the government 'lal batti' politicians, rich and very rich actors, directors, business persons, who have drivers, every worry about them when they wait in the parked cars, about facilities available for their use.
Often there is no choice, but to throw wrappers and containers onto the space away from your own. Especially train and bus travellars, prefer to discard rubbish through the window of their vehicle, rather than into the vehicle. No one is bothered to put rubbish into their bags. Travelling by train, all passengers throw used paper teacups, vadapau paper trays, soiled newspaper of samosas or vadas, empty pet water bottles, bhel wrappers, biscuit and chocolate wrappers, etc. The rubbish crescendoes just after Dadar, Karjat, Lonavla. How else should the travellers discard their rubbish? When you travel in the Japanese bullet train or on the train up the Swiss alps, each bogie has a garbage bin, but then there are limited passengers, only as many as can be seated. No standees are allowed. On Indian trains, if one is lucky enough to get into the train and stand, sit or squeeze between co-travellers, then you are lucky.
So, the message given by the governing bodies that plastic needs to be banned, but all the garbage is not plastic. Even paper rubbish is an eyesore and an environmental hazard.
If one travels by any local train or outstation train from Mumbai, it is a horrible sight to look out of the window. The worst is Ulhasnagar, because it is extremely full of garbage and even the stench is unbearable. How do the people there survive and remain healthy, is beyond belief.
The defecating and urinating on the train tracks has not diminished. When the slum dwellers have to sleep on footpaths or roads, where are they expected to defecate? Urban beggars and slum dwellers, defecate on plastic bags and then push it into any drain, the cover of which they manage to pry open.
I am not a homeless person, but even I have a problem of not getting to use a public facility when needed urgently. Some of the bad spots are CST terminus, Churchgate station, Crawford Market, Gateway, Byculla, Fountain, Mumbai university, and of course any local railway station. Even if the loos are available, for pay and use, the doors are broken, or they are soiled, or unclean, too crowded, not safe as the doors of the loos are broken, or the ladies loos are locked, etc. The Zoo has been renovated with an ugly facade, sporting snakes, but the toilets are only accessible to the security guards, public has to use the badly maintained prehistoric loos inside the zoo, horrible! Shop till you drop at Colaba Causeway and then control your urge to urinate, unless you want to stand in an endless line at the public loo near the Gateway, or use the one at the Macdonalds outlet or Westside.
MLAs and MPs should visit the public loos and check out the sorrowful state that most of them are in. Maybe Salman Khan should visit the CST loo and improve it, like he did to the prison loos that he had experienced. Please sir, the governing bodies, especially the Shiv Sena, is indifferent to the problems of the public, you could do yeoman service instead. Of course, the Big B only wants to be featured in expensive ads about public defecation etc, only if were to walk on the road and visit a loo at any station, or travel in a local train, then I would believe all that he advertises, otherwise your swatchch Bharat ad campaign is just Modi-worship-Modi-appeasement. No one would urinate on the road, if the alternative was feasible, available and reachable.
I wonder if the high and mighty, the government 'lal batti' politicians, rich and very rich actors, directors, business persons, who have drivers, every worry about them when they wait in the parked cars, about facilities available for their use.
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