Two Minutes Survey on Cleanliness

REDUCE ,REUSE, RECYCLE

    Reduce Reuse and Recycle is the mantra for SWM (Solid Waste Management). Rules exist in India but implementation is weak says World Bank. Don’t we know? Somebody has to say it?

  In SWM, major responsibility is of municipalities. We know how they function and how effective are they. Next is role of individuals.We can reduce reuse and recycle. 

Some ideas for individuals: 

• Buy used. May be on www.olx.in  www.quikr.com
• Use reusable than disposable. Take your own tumbler to office instead of using disposable glasses (make a habit of cleaning it for yourself). Take your water on travel. 
• Reuse one side papers.
• Rent things used infrequently
• Donate. One person's trash is another person's treasure.
• Awareness. 
• Pressure groups to make municipalities to act
• Make your own colony a model colony on SWM
• Give away your waste and get a tree. 

But role of individuals though important in habit making, awareness cannot go a long way without corporate world thinking on these lines

Some ideas for corporate world

• Innovate to reduce solid waste. Example recycle friendly packing. Minimal packing. 
• Invest in recycling technologies for garbage to energy, garbage to reusable products. 
• Declare a prize for SWM research and executable ideas. 

Now 

• Please add your ideas

RAHGIRI DAY Route to Swachch Bharat

   Any movement to succeed,it needs voluntary public participation. People shall feel it as their own. Recent example is the way Raahgiriday going viral in Delhi's Connaught Place with a slogan "apni raahen apni azaadi".

Rahgiriday as a concept is best explained in its website www.raahgiriday.com "Raahgiri Day is India's first sustained car-free citizen initiative that started in Gurgaon on Nov 17.2015. Its participants have played a major role in making this movement nationally and internationally acclaimed. Rahgiriday recently won the early-bird prize for UL and Ashoka Changemakers: safe roads, safer India competion and was selected as one of six most innovative solutions in addressing road safety".

    Participants in raahgiriday are from all walks of life. Yoga lovers, aerobics lovers, live sketchers, skaters,cyclists, joggers, dancers, street players, drummers, children, foreigners … you name and you have all making CP roads coming to life. Its all around enthusiasm, enterprise,energy and ecstasy.

    For Swachch Bharat to become a reality, raahgiriday can be a  great beginning. Raahgiriday can take up the cause of Swachch Bharat along with the cause of safe roads. Awareness campaign on cleanliness with volunteered action can become integral part of Rahgiriday. 

Raahgiriday- safe roads safe India

Raahgiriday -clean roads cleaner India. 

apni raahen apni swachchta...

Swachch Raahgiriday !!!

Let us sincerely hope raahgiriday organizers would certainly take note of it. They can rope in companies in the business of cleanliness to participate in rahgiriday. 

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Budget 2014 Promises Swachch Bharat By 2019 

Sangita Vyas: Swachch Bharat Mission

Narendra Modi's dream project 'Swach Bharat' impossible by 2019

Write your slogan for Swachch Bharat Abhiyan

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Slogans play a major role in popularizing the message of Swachch Bharat. Here are some. Your may add yours here.

• Dream and act for Swachch Bharat

• SWACHCHAMEVA JAYATE 

• Clean Villages Smart Cities

• Build toilets build nation

• Clean cities dream cities

• Cleanliness is in my DNA (  for t shirts )

• स्वच्छ भारत सुन्दर भारत 

• गंदगी हटाओ स्वच्छता जगाओ 

• मेरे बाए स्वच्छ भारत   मेरे दाए स्वच्छ भारत 
• मेरी नदियाँ  स्वच्छ भारत - मेरी गलियाँ स्वच्छ भारत 

• मेरे सपनें - स्वच्छ भारत 
•  स्वच्छ भारत -  स्वास्त्य भारत 
•   स्वच्छ मन -  स्वच्छ भारत 
• भारत विकास- स्वच्छ भारत  

• स्वच्छता मेरा जनम सिद्ध अधिकार 

• गाँव गली   स्वच्छ  भारत -पेड़ पौधा  सुन्दर भारत 

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Swachch Bharat is holistic concept covering  swach jameen, swach paani and swach hawa. Uncontaminated food, drinking water and pollution free air are possible when Swachch Bharat is dreamt and realized in its totality. 

But there has to be a beginning. PM  Shri Narendra Modi has given a call for elimination of open defecation by 2019, the 150^th birth anniversary of Mahatma. Mahatma’s penchant for cleanliness is too well known. It would be a great tribute to the memory of Mahatma if the challenge is achieved.

Sangita Vyas has established, backed by her team’s primary study, that attitude towards using latrines is very important to make the mission success.The reasons for not using government built latrines revealed in their study are varied and some of them are interesting like preference to open defecation due to pleasure and comfort. One can completely agree with Sangita Vyas. Concept of cleanliness is more of attitude as I brought in my earlier post. At the same time, the very requirement of facilities cannot be discounted.

In fact, construction of toilets and attitudinal change have to go together. The very lack of required number of toilets cannot be ignored. It may be presumed that in  urban scenario, reasons like fear of cleaning the pits, pleasure of defecation in open may not be as valid or as strong as they are in rural parlance. Here, mere lack of toilets could be a serious reason for compelled open defecation. Joint Monitoring Programme for water supply and sanitation of WHO/Unicef's data (updated April 2014) reveal that the open defecation has decreased steeper in urban areas than in rural areas over 22 years between 1990 to 2012. However, having total 48% open defecation even 65 years after independence is shameful to say the least. 

Joint Monitoring Programme of WHO/UNICEF - estimated trends of sanitation coverage
India	Sanitation coverage estimates
	Urban (%)		Rural (%)		Total (%)
	1990	2012	1990	2012	1990	2012
Improved facilities	50	60	7	25	18	36
Shared facilities	17	20	1	5	5	9
Other unimproved	5	8	2	5	3	7
Open defecation	28	12	90	65	74	48
Source: WHO/UNICEF JMP, 2014

Therefore, construction of toilets is of prime importance. It is rather first step towards Swach Bharat. 

Apart from attitudinal disdain to use toilets, reasons like expenditure to maintain the toilets (including that of clearing filled pits), requirement of considerable quantum of water for flushing, lack of space in slum areas to allocate for toilet within small houses are some more reasons that need to be addressed for popularizing toilet usage. In rural areas, visiting nearby water bodies for open defecation might be a act of pleasure involving the morning walk. Construction of toilets near such water bodies could be thought of.

Finally, the wastage released on railway tracks across the country is as bad as open defecation. That means about 11 lakh population traveling on trains daily are openly defecating !!! It is an irony that toilets and open defecation coexist on trains. … to be noted seriously to address this issue. 

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Dreaming and acting for Swachch Bharat is simple and pure 'Desh Bhakti. If fighting an outside enemy is essence of patriotism, fighting uncleanliness an enemy within is more than patriotism. 

"Linking cleanness to patriotism? Are you mad? Hope there is no hidden agenda in the proposition…" 

Sorry dear there is no hidden agenda. Patriot defends his/her country against enemies. Uncleanliness is greater enemy. It is enemy within.

We know developed countries like USA cherish very high standards of cleanliness even to the levels of obsessiveness. Katherin Ashenberg in her article in nytimes.com finds roots of this obsessiveness among Americans in American Civil War during which the Sanitary Commission stressed upon use of soap and water to reduce mortality of American soldiers. This idea caught up well duly fanned by spree of advertisements and by the end of the civil war; cleanliness was seen as patriotic, progressive and distinctively American.

Enemy from outside is identifiable but one within is difficult to. It is like terrorism. Terrorists mingle within society and conduct anti -national attacks. Uncleanliness is like terrorism. In some ways it is more fatal. (I am not saying terrorism is not dangerous/fatal). Uncleanliness is with us,within us and is silent killer. During 2013 there were 690 terrorist incidents in India and about 467 were killed and 770 injured as per Global Terrorism Data Base (GTD). Such incidents create terror and we become wary and alert. But silent killer diseases caused by unclean conditions like water contamination are more fatal.But we tend to neglect as we consider as part of our lives. The seriousness can be driven by the fact that one-lakh children die of diarrhoea per annum in India as per The Global Enteric Multicenter Study  (GEMS) published in the medical journal Lancet in 2013.Therefore, fighting an enemy within and saving lives of our nation is nothing but simple and pure patriotism.

Our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's idea is to make development part of Jan Andolan. Similarly, Cleanliness also need to be made a Jan Andolan. Swachch Bharat shall become a People's movement… a National movement. 

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Swachch Bharat a noble dream to realise

Swachch Bharat… Clean India...



Is it a dream? Is there a need for movement? an Abhiyan?  

"I an Indian"  am capable of making a clean area into an unclean area in no time. I am so capable that I need not do anything to achieve this… my presence itself is sufficient. 

I spit on roads 
I spit my paan on walls … ( i am a graffiti artist without paint and brush… i can paint a graffiti with my mouth and with a sound of pch..pch….)
I pee on roads 
I throw plastic everywhere
I have cola and throw the bottle on street
I eat burgers and throw the litter everywhere…
I look stylish i speak foreign and throw bottles, cigarettes here and there.
I make my train compartment filthy and travel hours together after that.
I vist temples and make them dirty… (let me stop here)

In india 
I+I+I+I+I……. has never been WE. I have no concern for We. The  space for I is my own home. The space for We is public space. So i have no concern for anything related to WE.

But when we talk … we declare with pride.. thumping pride  that 
WE ARE A FREE NATION. 
MAY BE WE MEAN WE= I

Therefore We (=I) have a freedom to spit, pee, throw litter everywhere and anywhere that does not concern me. When we=I are free to do all this We expect someone else should take care of the Country. Someone else should clean the country. We talk long… why do i pay taxes why do i elect a government ? I am free… I am free nation. I can do the dirty and someone else shall clean. Who is that someone? We forget that, that someone is also part of free India. 

My personal observation is that I as an Indian, act on only two occasions and talk without action in all other occasions. Those two occasions are 

1. When I have an incentive to act… mujhe kya hai? 
2. When I am coerced to act…. Kaun poochegaa? 

Fear and incentive only can make an Indian act. Otherwise Indian is free… as free as air…

I saw a person spitting in the corridors of a hospital. I couldn't control myself and encountered him… 

"why are you spitting in the corridor? Do you spit in your house?"

First, he was aghast at my attack.Quickly he gathered himself (ego is quick to kick) and like a true Indian became argumentative. With equal ferocity he asked me... 

"could you stop all those who spat like this? Why are you pointing out at me only? finally… the ultimate question… "WHO ARE YOU TO ASK ME? ( meaning i am free)". Result.. i was aghast…

The lesson is … that person who spat in the corridors of a hospital had no incentive not to spit and had no fear of coercion because i was not a force (meaning either legal or illegal force) to coerce him. 

Indians ACT on incentive or due to fear and JUST TALK in all other occasions.

Now revisit our first question. 

Is a movement required for swachch Bharat.. clean India?

WILL Swachch Bharat REMAIN A DREAM OR BECOME A REALITY ?

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