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With Modi”
1. Yes (96 %)
2. No (1 %)
3. Can't Say (3 %)
Issues identified:
1. People spitting on the road
2. People throwing garbage in public areas
3. No provision of public toilets in rural India
4. Lack of clean public toilets
5. Lack of cleaning and manning of public toilets
6. Large portion of the population defecate in the open
7. People urinating in public places
8. Household garbage is thrown on the roads
9. Garbage dumps are not cleared regularly
10. Contamination of water due to unregulated industrial waste
11. Rivers / ponds / beaches being are used for cleaning, bathing, washing utensils,
bathing animals etc. with nobody to question
12. No segregation of dry and wet waste
13. There is a large network of open sewerage
14. No regular water supplies in most residential areas
15. People smoke openly in public areas
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16. Public transport is very dirty – inside and outside
17. Lack of clean and enough sitting spaces in areas like railway stations, government
hospitals etc.
Solutions identified:
1. There needs to be civic education combined with appropriate strict penalties against
violations.
2. Locals, shop owners, NGOs and business houses must be roped in to provide modern
sanitation facilities and its upkeep
3. Police must be trained on civic sense. Presently police itself violates civic issues and
sets a bad example for others
4. Enable & enforce cleanliness in religious places with bill boards, videos etc. and
gentle persuasion initially for few months until devotees internalise the message
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5. People should be educated about hygiene, sanitation and civic sense through mass
media campaigns
6. Awards, in form of development funds should be allocated to cities & localities who
keep their city and area clean
7. End corruption in Local bodies and Municipality and everywhere else
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Hygiene, Sanitation and Civic Sense – Citizen posts and comments:
1. It’s very much true that these are some of the causes. But for 1st point, even though
there are few public toilets, they are not maintained and clean. That is also one of
the reasons for spread of diseases. Many people won’t use public toilets due to fear
of infection. Along with setting up new public toilets, measures should be taken to
maintain the existing ones als0 – Nalini SG
2. I would like to add that, Education is important; people need to be told the adverse
effects to them as well to the environment. First, we educated class have to stop
throwing waste items anywhere, be it road, or bus, train, or gardens. Secondly,
children are to be educated on this, at home and school - to keep clean and neat
their homes, school, and surroundings. It may take time, but a start has to be done.
Perhaps, some NGOs may take up the issue and keeping the roads neat and clean of
their locality, may be on weekly basis. Also by arranging awareness programmes at
Panchayat levels – Rajendra Hatwar
3. I am from Mumbai I do feel due to lack of sanitation facilities people from Slums
come near to the railway track to dispose their Human waste. The Government can
take the advantage of this human waste by converting them to Fertilizer and reduce
the chemical use of Urea. Also other suggestion is to construct Toilets near the
Railway tracks .adopt Rain Harvesting facilities and good drainage system so that
water does not get accumulated. Stop the use of Plastics .Promote Organic food for
good Hygiene – Ramadoss Venkataramanan
4. The basic thing to achieve hygiene and sanitation is to control the population. Until it
is controlled, providing or adding new resources won't have major impact in
improving the Hygiene in India – Arun J
5. It’s not government, it’s the citizen of India, should be self-disciplined. A subject
should be introduced in the school in a practical way. If other countries can do, why
can't we. Penalty should be very high, authority should be monitored – Harsh Parikh
6. Regular awareness campaign at different levels, including kids, schools,
household, village level, municipality level. NEAC was good initiative but
it did not percolate too many branches & offshoots. NGOs, Private Bodies,
Social Bodies to be encouraged without any bias of any political leaning of
bodies – Narendra Roy
7. I feel that a lack of responsibility and ownership makes us dirty our spaces. Value
based spiritual education is needed – Chitra Jha
8. There is a huge risk of human and animal lives because of plastic waste thrown on
roads. We should urge government to put complete ban on the plastic product in
any use – Rajiv Dubey
9. Government should ban production of pan masala products, and stop wasting time
on advertising to stop their usage – Sundaresan Muthiah
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10. Please consider a fact that we have all witnessed in the past few years. Delhi Metro
and the Metro Stations. People do not litter there because of a sense of pride which
comes from the fact that the DMRC has placed a lot of attention and care in keeping
these clean and suitably sanitised. We have to build this sense of pride in everyday
life – Neel Chatterjee
11. As per my experience in the social sector, I think that lack of sensitization is one of
the main cause for the hygiene, sanitation and civic sense – Manoj Kumar
12. Many municipal corporations have officially created garbage dumps e.g. Delhi, in
every locality to store and lift garbage. In most cases these dumps continuously
overflow and old garbage at the bottom of the dump rots creating innumerable
health hazard and perpetual foul smell – S. K. Sah
13. What is needed is a serious and systematic research into studying the generation of
waste and methods for disposing it of properly. It should be a well-recognised
discipline of environmental engineering in the universities – Subramanian
Ramamurthy
14. The best way to solve the problem is to fine an entire street if garbage is found in the
street. Door collection of garbage should be implemented first as the garbage bins in
the street serve only to give off bad odour and feed stray animals which add to
traffic problems encountered by vehicles and pedestrians – Krishna Murthy
15. Many countries keeps Last Saturday of each month as Sanitation day where people
have to do all repairs and maintenance works in office, house even the roads also.
Like that a desperate day can be followed as 'Sanitation Day' every month where
everyone can help to maintain cleanliness already within each house and office
premises. Government also can provide employment for voluntary workers to
participate in cleaning – Vignesh Kumar
16. Our people when they go to different countries, they say the country is so clean and
they maintain the cleanliness there. Why cannot they do the same thing here?
Dustbins have to be there on roads even in small villages as well. Whoever puts
wastes outside the bin to be punished then and there? Public toilets should be there,
again in small villages as well. Cleaning them regularly is a must. Also, whoever
makes the road filthy should be fined properly. These things to be covered in CCTV
or photographed and aired so that the public including the person who dirties the
road should watch. Photos of those people should be published in paper or banners
and in all social media networks. Hope our country will be the most beautiful country
– Sourabha Ravi
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