So everyone is taking up the
cleanliness drive these days – from celebrities to politicians to sports
personalities and even corporate houses. That’s a good initiative. But is it
okay to take a drive for 1 day and leave it at that? I was going through some
celebrity photos of their cleanliness drive and the only dominant element in
their large bins of garbage were dried leaves!!! Now the question is - do you just see dried leaves on the
streets?? I see a whole lot of things – old clothes, stale food, wrappers,
vegetable peels, scrap metal, dead rats and just about everything. Definitely
much more than just dried leaves.
Our apartment community had taken
a cleanliness drive in our neighborhood in Bangalore once to free our streets (the
then pot holed roads) of nails and metal parts. Many of our residents had
participated in the drive and there was an incredible amount of metal junk
collected from a stretch of 2 km road! Think about all the cars that have been
plying on the busy road. We went up against the odds and started this drive
early morning on a weekend so that commuters didn’t have a problem. We could do
that because we stood up. The corporation, municipality turns deaf and blind in
these situations. But should we stop at just that? Isn’t it our responsibility too to take up the responsibility of cleaning up. We don’t have a problem in
cleaning our own house, terrace or balcony. We only use the roads – then why
can’t we help in cleaning them?
When we travel abroad we take
care not to throw a gum wrapper or a coffee cup on the roads, we take care to
throw them in the designated bin, but as soon as we reach our own country we
don’t think twice to throw a coffee cup on the roads, or spit on the roads. We learn
to do what we see around. No one is throwing a single thing anywhere other than
the bins so we don’t litter. We behave like a responsible citizen as we step
into London, Paris or Singapore. And back here we don’t mind throwing the
cigarette butt anywhere – because everyone around is doing the same. Wrong. We
need to learn to a responsible citizen in our own country first. What legacy
otherwise will you leave for your next generation – a country full of filth
(pun intended)!
Let’s drive a campaign to clean
our neighborhood. Let’s be responsible citizen. Strepsils India has come up
with this campaign to encourage Indians to speak up against all the wrongs that
we see around us. #AbMontuBolega. Join the campaign and lets stand up against
all the wrongs – harassment of women, or littering roads. Lets strive to make
the society a better place to live. Visit their webpage, FaceBook Page orTwitterHandle
This post of mine has been written as a part of Indi-Happy hours on Indiblogger in association withStrepsilsIndia #AbMontuBolega
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