What a city Bangalore has become!
As a kid i was taught Bangalore is the Garden City of India. As i stepped into High School, my teachers would tell that, Bangalore is becoming a Garbage City. And they were so true.... It finally has turned into a Garbage City
Its such a shame, that one of the most cosmopolitan cities of India, where most of the people work in IT or IT related Cos, are educated, but completely lack civic sense.
With the population of city bursting out of its capacity , the city is grappling to come back to normal.
We can see garbage trashed everywhere....on the empty spaces, on the roads, on footpath....
Also a new rule now to segregate the waste.
Well in my company they already started keeping 2 bins ( Dry / Wet waste ). But how many follow?
Actually speaking, for residences the waste has to be divided to some 4 categories. And the dump will not be collected from Flats/ Gated colonies. What the hell? We pay the same taxes, then why a differential treatment for individual houses and flats?
Also why should we be segregating the waste, when as a tax payer, you pay goverment the taxes to do exactly the same. Above that , while constructing a house, they collect a garbage cess. What for?
One thing i notice now is, irrespective of whether you are Rich or Poor....you do stink...
To Quote the exact lines from an article in the New York Times ( yeah...bangalore was highlighted as a garbage city )
"households in Bangalore must separate their trash into wet food waste, dry recyclables like plastics and paper, and medical waste. Ms. Kar now spends much of her time trying to persuade Bangalorians to do just that. On a recent day, she stopped just outside her door and pointed to a servant leaving an expensive home nearby.
The servant carried two buckets of trash across the street and dumped them in an empty lot. Stray dogs and a feral pig soon came to feed but left behind the plastic and other garbage.
“What are you doing?” Ms. Kar yelled at the servant.
He shrugged and pointed at his employer’s house. Ms. Kar had tried many times to dissuade the servant from dumping the house’s garbage in the increasingly disgusting lot, she said, but his employer had dismissed her concerns. “People in India think that if their own house is clean, the problem just goes away,” she said. She is nonetheless optimistic that Bangalore will be able to recycle nearly all of its waste, which would be a remarkable accomplishment for a city of eight million. “The city is at its knees,” she said with a shrug. “We don’t have a choice.”
So the rich just dump the trash at any empty space, displaying they just stink in their thinking and the Poor, well they stink any ways...
As a kid i was taught Bangalore is the Garden City of India. As i stepped into High School, my teachers would tell that, Bangalore is becoming a Garbage City. And they were so true.... It finally has turned into a Garbage City
Its such a shame, that one of the most cosmopolitan cities of India, where most of the people work in IT or IT related Cos, are educated, but completely lack civic sense.
With the population of city bursting out of its capacity , the city is grappling to come back to normal.
We can see garbage trashed everywhere....on the empty spaces, on the roads, on footpath....
Also a new rule now to segregate the waste.
Well in my company they already started keeping 2 bins ( Dry / Wet waste ). But how many follow?
Actually speaking, for residences the waste has to be divided to some 4 categories. And the dump will not be collected from Flats/ Gated colonies. What the hell? We pay the same taxes, then why a differential treatment for individual houses and flats?
Also why should we be segregating the waste, when as a tax payer, you pay goverment the taxes to do exactly the same. Above that , while constructing a house, they collect a garbage cess. What for?
One thing i notice now is, irrespective of whether you are Rich or Poor....you do stink...
To Quote the exact lines from an article in the New York Times ( yeah...bangalore was highlighted as a garbage city )
"households in Bangalore must separate their trash into wet food waste, dry recyclables like plastics and paper, and medical waste. Ms. Kar now spends much of her time trying to persuade Bangalorians to do just that. On a recent day, she stopped just outside her door and pointed to a servant leaving an expensive home nearby.
The servant carried two buckets of trash across the street and dumped them in an empty lot. Stray dogs and a feral pig soon came to feed but left behind the plastic and other garbage.
“What are you doing?” Ms. Kar yelled at the servant.
He shrugged and pointed at his employer’s house. Ms. Kar had tried many times to dissuade the servant from dumping the house’s garbage in the increasingly disgusting lot, she said, but his employer had dismissed her concerns. “People in India think that if their own house is clean, the problem just goes away,” she said. She is nonetheless optimistic that Bangalore will be able to recycle nearly all of its waste, which would be a remarkable accomplishment for a city of eight million. “The city is at its knees,” she said with a shrug. “We don’t have a choice.”
So the rich just dump the trash at any empty space, displaying they just stink in their thinking and the Poor, well they stink any ways...
