Swachh Bharat (Clean India)
It is heartening to see 33,000 plus people join the group ‘Clean India’ created on the My
Gov site MyGov.in. The pragmatic suggestions of the group members ensure that the vision of Hon’able Prime Minister to create a ‘Swachh Bharat’ by the time India marks the 150th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi will be a reality.
The fast growing group in terms of members has come up with numerous ways to make India Clean. The group while hosting discussion on the following topic should issues of urban and rural cleanliness be tackled differently and can a single approach provide solutions to all problems related to cleanliness, suggests below mentioned worth implementing points:
- City to be planned with dust bins placed at good intervals. Have enough paid toilets and washrooms.
- Fine people who are caught littering and send repeat offenders to work at a social centre to give their free services.
- Reward those who keep their surroundings clean including industrial houses.
- Most waste found in rural area is biodegradable. This should be used to make compost. Urban areas should segregate dry and wet waste.
- Use celebrities and TV ads to educate people about cleanliness and encourage them to keep their surroundings clean.
To avoid manual scavenging the suggestions received were to pass a law. Also municipal corporations who practise it should be made aware of alternatives and fined heavily if found breaking the rule. The other suggestion was to go for competition for a green toilet. Many members suggested that many a times municipal corporations have machines to clean but they lie in neglect and manual scavenging continues. This as per the members should be stopped as soon as possible. Members also suggested construction of bio-toilets in rails and creating community toilets in villages. However, most suggested that the evil practice of manual scavenging can be only stopped by educating and inspiring people.
The suggestions received for how to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary with special focus on cleanliness received numerous comments like:
- Create city / district level waste recycling plants with incentives for providers and users.
- Use of incineration: A great way to convert waste to energy, reduces the junk volume of the waste and makes the environment clean.
- Ban organic waste going to landfills.
- Make commercial units including hospitals and hotels to create an exclusive system by themselves to hand over their waste directly to solid waste management units.
- Install more dust bin for non-bio degradable waste only. Make compulsory to hand over bio degradable waste to the collection agents only and ban public littering.
- Bring the latest technology in solid waste management. Involve school children and NGOs for awareness campaign.
The interesting tasks assigned to the members has received wonderful response from the members. The tasks assigned are:
- Identity 10 global best practices used by countries which have made a big difference in the lives of their citizens.
- Visit a mid-day meal kitchen and assess the cleanliness standards. Present a report on the scope of improvement on cleanliness there.
- Organise a cleanliness drive in your colony or locality.
- Share photographs of a particular area or locality, stressing on how they were before and how they are at present in terms of cleanliness.
- Identify 50 cities and 150 towns that can be used for pilot testing of solid waste management and waste water treatment initiatives and suggest ideas on how these initiatives cab be actuated on the ground.
- Suggest a PPP model that can be adopted to make our cities garbage free.
- Suggest a policy roadmap to construct and maintain proper toilet facilities in cities and villages for the poor.
The most happening section of the group is where the members put their comments after visiting schools and presented their reports on the hygiene standards maintained there for mid-day meals. Have a look at what two members experienced when they visited government schools:
- Visited one of the Government school in Baraut, Handia, Allahabad. When I entered in Kitchen of that school, I was totally shocked. Its condition was very poor. Even the women who works there, don’t wash the utensils properly. I don’t know how those student eat it? Its condition seems to be like a kitchen for dogs or some unhygienic animals. And the in charge of the Kitchen was Pradhan of that village. Now I can only pray for those small kids. May God bless them.
- I visited a mid-day meal kitchen in Virugambakkam Chennai. Very good standard are being maintained. Cleanliness is highly appreciable. Items are provided at low costs. Steam cooking is done here. Food items are good here. Purified drinking water is provided. I suggest this scheme can be made all over India.
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Modi ji pranaam , sir meri observation hai ki paked food material like chips ,biscuits,Namkeen ,juices,cold drinks even mineral water are the biggest souce of plastic garbage at roads ,park ,beaches ,tourist sports , any open place,fine is also one way , however if someone dont have money than what u can do , so its better to restrict use of plastic specially in food packing , which is the major source of Plastic garbage in cities and now spreading very fast to towns. Sumandeep from chandigarh
Earlier in my comment I mentioned about the problem of sufficient water for operating toilets.In india there are many places where even sufficient drinking water is not available.What about water for toilets. In this context I would like to suggest to go for dry latrines designed and devoleped by our father of the nation i.e. Honorable BAPUJI in his Sewagram Ashram at Wardha. In these toilets a hole is dug out on the land and the soil is hipped by the side which is used to cover fieces,Try it.
Priministerji, we require dustbins, if possible fitted with bin bags at regular interval , everywhere, business and residential areas should be made compulsary placement of such bins( an old tarkol bin cost rs 100 only) and nagar nigam should pick up this waste, when there will be bins , people will put waste in it. Further , green bins may used for bio waste and other for recycle waste, this should be done by educating. But basics first
As this category themselves dislike this work and curse everyone for their fate. Start with giving the private institutes for employing private parties for cleaning,Include all big and small institutes, private and Public.In the II phase, starting from Private then public group housing societies, then the private colonies and like this, Privatise this whole work. The party should collect and dispose the garbage mechanically to reduce the human element & perfection.Defaulters could be punish.
Idea for Swach Bharat Abhiyan.
A person throwing waste can be caught by a mobile phone. Which is a proof of person violating the law. And should be fined lets say Rs. 500/-
So we can create a website for implementing Swach Bharat Abhiyan. Where photo or video of person throwing waste uploaded on the site should be set to trial and collect fine.
Now The CATCH is half of the fine, i.e. Rs.250/- will be awarded to the person uploading the pic.
Soon it will become a business. And rest we can ima
Most effective and quick way to achieve clean india is that,state,municipalities and central govt should together create a scheme wherein govt will buy trash from common people at a decent rate….cities will be freefrom plastics soon if implemented…
Namsty PM sir.sir Je me apse melna chta hu.but mujko apse melne ka prosess nahi pta ha.TV par my gov app ke bare me deka .phir mujko pta LGA ke me apse .is website ke dura Mel shkta hu.sir Je mujko apse melkar clean India ke bare me baat karne ha.pls sir me ap se melna chta hu.
RAHUL Sharma
Ghaziabad
7599052528
modiji namaste. In next budget a clean india surcharge can be levied on all products like shampoo pockets, edible oil pockets, gutka , and all other such things that uses plastic non degradable material for packaging. that money so collected can be used for clean india compaign. Thank you. Jai Hind.
We citizens are happy to come forward and take up a challenge to clean the surroundings, but the municipal authorities need to atleast do their daily job properly. If they dont even collect garbage timely, a one time clean up exercise is futile ! Please come n see the state of Park Site Vikhroli West, there are heaps of garbage not picked up, drains not cleaned and absolutely no maintenance of trees planted. Municipality ko bhi thoda Swachh Bharat me help karne ko kahiye please !
swachh bharat abhiyaan ka mission nhi pura ho skta kyunki mere village ki naal aaj tak shi nhi ho payi pure naali ka paani raste mein faila rahta hai koi v nhi sunta D.M.bhi nhi sun rha hai aise mein to mushkil hai pura hona ye sapna 20 years ho gya koi sunwayi nhi ho rhi hai P.M. ko v letter likha magar kuch pta nhi chala .