Sanitizing Delhi and NCR against epidemics

We have all the bad reports this year. First, corruption charges against CWG related works, excessive rains, and floods and now fear of Delhi and NCR getting into epidemic fear for Malaria, Dengue, and Swine Flu etc. As media reports suggest that the battle is almost lost and there is eminent danger looming that we will have spread of dreaded diseases and strikes in Govt. run hospitals make it all the more worst. Now it looks as if nothing is falling in place.

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But I still hope that we will have very successful games despite all problems. This is where we Indian and our Indianness matters. We shine in difficult periods.

A good thing I noticed that Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation sanitation department’s staff has come and collected the garbage which was not collected so regularly and they also sprayed CaCo3 in order to check growth of mosquitoes. But I was also wondering, is it right that we all the time find Govt. Departments on the wrong foot or being lethargic towards public grievances. I find that the society is by and large responsible for the mess that we cause and expect Govt. department to come and rescue us. It’s my observation that how many RWAs are taking care of garbage disposal in their colonies. Often the garbage is collected by illiterate people and they bring in rickshaws or hand cart and just dump it on the road side where the garbage bins are kept by the Corporation or Municipal staff. I am of the opinion that no system is in place to dispose off the garbage in proper way. Let each RWA should own this as their problem then only one can expect improvements. There is urgent need to train the staff and put in place proper garbage disposal system.

For once I find that we as Indians have very poor sense of hygienic and decent living and it is amply reflected on official website of the Common Wealth Games wherein it is suggested to the foreign visitors to use toilets of Hotels as roadside toilets remain generally not clean and hygienic. Our sense of being hygienic and clean environment world over comes in for criticism. I think we should put this issue under the carpet for long. We must address this on war footings right from the time one is two or three years old, we must use of our education system in the furtherance of hygienic living, we must build toilets in the villages and maintain them in clean and useable conditions etc.