Clean up the cities

Deccan Chronicle , Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Correspondent :
Cities have gone up and down in the SwachhSarvekshan cleanliness rankings. Such a survey is necessary as the need to keep all cities, towns and villages clean is even more compelling in this era of mass urbanisation. The only way to avoid greater spread of infection and disease is to keep the environment as clean as possible. The cities have a major role to play as the municipal and metropolitan authorities are the only ones who can get all the garbage collected and manage the huge amounts of everyday waste.

Soon the surveys, which give maximum weightage to solid waste management, will also have to take air pollution into account since this malady is known to cut short the lives of people living in mega cities. The task of cleaning up public spaces is getting more and more challenging and cities have not even got down to making plans for cleaning up the waterways that wind through large urban agglomerations.

We owe it to ourselves to keep public spaces clean. Individuals can contribute by segregating household waste in a methodical manner and leave it to the city to collect and manage the waste. The southern and western parts of India seem to have addressed the public cleanliness issue better.

Fortunately there is no politics involved in the rankings as the Prime Minister’s city of Varanasi also figures at the bottom. If NDA states seem to have fared somewhat better, it might have to do with their being more committed to Swachh Bharat, a scheme that must be lauded for bringing awareness about the right of a citizen to a cleaner environment.

 
SOURCE : http://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/dc-comment/170216/clean-up-the-cities.html
 


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