This Diwali don’t let this happen to your neighborhood and town!

Cleanliness endowed with a moral quality. Cleanliness is next to godliness and regarded as contributing to other ideals such as health and beauty.

It seems our Prime Ministers call for a “Swachh Bharat” is going deaf ears for many. The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Campaign Clean India) is a national level campaign beyond politics inspired solely by patriotism by the Government of India covering 4041 statutory towns to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. Unfortunately the offenders to this campaign are mostly the educated and affluent lot living in the posh/good localities and areas not to talk of the illiterates. I hope you are not one?

Seen littered with filth and garbage a street adjoining Kalidas Road, Dehradun. 

Unfortunately this view is a common sight anywhere.

Going around the town or anywhere around the country, one notice a sudden flux of filth, garbage and trash spread all around when festive season approaches and especially during Diwali time. Why Diwali? Simply because in a bid to woo Goddess Laxmi, the Goddess of wealth, prosperity and good luck which as per our Hindu scriptures comes home to a neat and clean surrounding, we clean our homes not bothering of dirtying the surroundings.

Shoving all the filth and trash upon cleaning our homes on road sides is a very common sight and practice by most. A very pitiable and sorry state of mental level! Remember, no Goddess will ever enter your abode for giving you good luck, wealth and prosperity if you keep your surroundings dirty.

One can see heaps of filth and garbage spread all around and more extensively during festive seasons when many take the liberty of offending to unfortunately no punishable offense in our country. Vacant plots of land, street corners, open drains and ‘nullahas” are a common ugly sight of filth and garbage littered all around. The people even do not restrict or feel ashamed dirtying their neighborhood for their convenience. A growing habit of shoving in all house-hold filth in plastic bags and hurling them over any where is but a pleasure for some. These filth bags in turn feast for the street dogs and other animals that dirty the entire area beyond ones imagination and in some cases a germs breeding ground with foul smell. For God sake rise above this and don’t project your mental sickness!

While this is a display of being literate, illiterates what to talk of the illiterates, the civic bodies also are equally responsible in not doing their task wholesomely. One agrees cleaning is not only the responsibility of safai karamcharis the civic bodies cannot have an easy exit on this account.

We all talk big of Green Diwali and what not, but keeping clean your surroundings and neighborhood not part of the green Diwali? Talk big if you can practice it!

As per a government estimate millions of government employees, schools, college’s students and countless number of residents of India lead the clean India drive. Witnessing this sorry state of affairs, one can say the every day many coverage’s in both print and electronic media where eminent people politicians, schools, big and small organizations seen engaged in the cleanliness drive is to a large extend a farce. Large section of people and many organizations are benefiting more out of this campaign for their personal ambitions and gains then for the real cause. If this campaign evaluated by a photo-opportunity, then we would be doing a disservice to the nation.

It is true when Prime Minister stresses "We reached Mars. No PM or Minister went. It was the people who did it, our scientists who did it. So can't we create a Clean India? India can do it. People of India can do it." 

Change mindsets and be human!