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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Best out of waste – Create two garbages in every localilty of rural and urban cities, no. 1 wet garbage 2. dry garbage. By using wet garbage with the help of recycling we can make manure which is again economical to the nation’s pride. 2. By using dry garbage, just like plastics, we can recycled and which is again resaleable and that can fetch money which is again important for nations pride and our economy.
pradhanmantriji namaskar,
pradhanmantriji aapake swachata abhiyanko mera salam. pradhanmantriji me har sal tirupati jata hu by train.pradhanmantriji muze is sal railway stationome bahot aachi tarah swachata dikhai. me ye soch kar hi prawas kar raha tha ki pichale kai saloseis bar kya station swachata he? jawab big yes. pradhanmantriji aur ek bat logon me bhi swachatake bare me jagarukata badhi he. lekin 1 kamatarta ye he ki dustbin kam he.
For protecting our India from red spilt on roads government have to increase tax on tobacco and the increase in tax will be that much that people of india will reduce the use of tobacco by which we are able to step up in CLEAN INDIA HEALTHY INDIA.
Dear Modi,
As you know, Indian train conditions have to be improved a lot.even in the first class there are lot of insects, cockroaches.pillows and blankets which are being given in the second a/c is not good.Bin size is very small for a compartment accommodating 50 passengers.It is not cleaned and emptied at regular intervals. train stations should friendly to senior stations and disabled people.You could take steps to install escalators and travelators in each platform.Seniors will appreciate
Dear Modi
It is good to see that you are engaging Fortune 500 CEOs and taking steps to generate more investment and to create jobs.much appreciated.Good to see that free WiFi will be enabled at 500 stations.it is required.At the same time I feel lot has to be done in improving cleanliness of train and rail stations.Human waste and plastic items found in rail station.Please introduce bio toilets as in flights.People also still drinking alcohol in train with the support of train staff.take action
Dear Modi,
Lower berths have to be allocated automatically to senior citizens.Recently when we booked online ticket (not Tadkal) and returned from Tirunelveli to chennai, upper berth was allocated to my parents(father is 80 years old and mother is 75 years old)Railway TT was not helpful and insisted that they have to get into their upperberth seats.We managed to exchange with 1 kind fellow passengers after begging the whole compartment.Please take steps to allocate lower births to seniorcitizen
There is need of dustbin on every road, nook and corner so that people should not walk a long before spotting the place to throw trash. I have traveled in even poor countries like Cambodia and Laos where they have kept the dustbins on public places which are made up of old tyres. I have pictures but donot know how to uplaod the pictures on this site.
This is real good way to utilize the old tyres that are cut in good shape and made dustbins. This also reduces the problem to dispose old tyres
Cleaning is at the heart of culture. This scheme should be made all over India to improve healthy lifestyles. All it takes is to develop a consciousness of cleaning. It will no longer be accepted to just litter public places. I loud the efforts of Honorable Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi and people to take this further. Those who can afford it should embrace steam cleaning http://www.beststeammop.co.uk/, they kill 99% of all germs on your surfaces.
honorable prime minister,I saw many west materials are left by people who visit the historical places es. I think there a punishment for people who left the west materials left on the visiting places.
This should be done because we can not except anyone to go and clean the public toilets, drains etc. If we expect this to be done by the common man then what will be the use of Municipal Corporation,Municipalities etc.
So, provision for strict action should be there for the employees of Municipal Corporation,Municipalities. if they are not performing as desired.
Also, there should be bins at regular intervals in every market of the city so people may get compelled to throw the waste into it.