It
has been more than a fortnight since the "swachcha Bharat" campaign was launched by the country's Prime Minister
but the Bhopal Municipal Corporation, laggard as it has always been, is yet to
get its act together. A little outing into the town would reveal how callous
the Corporation is in removing garbage from the streets. True, the VIP areas
where the minsters and other wielders of power and influence reside, are spic
and span. But if one goes out and away from those areas one finds garbage
scattered over large areas around the garbage bins. I saw the other day such
clusters at Jehangirabad and MP Nagar Zone I. At Jehangirabad there was a huge
dump near the Police Lines where garbage must have been collecting for days. At
MP Nagar it was bang on the Board Office Square, a location that traditionally
remains full of garbage, muck, construction debris and sundry trash.
The news papers are also howling about the colonies where garbage is piling up but the municipality, apparently, couldn't care much. After all, Modi has just got some respite after a hectic bout of campaigning. Not that people in Bhopal are bothered about him. The Mayor is indeed from the BJP but the municipal council is dominated by the Congress. Maybe, the Congress will play dirty and try and neutralise the “Swachchha Bharat” campaign. With the
The photographs alongside were taken by me this morning of the garbage on the road
that takes off from the Cambridge School and takes one to the Idgah. While the
roads on Idgah Hills are in terrible condition, the muck all over makes life
miserable. Stray cows and dogs, however, are having great time, feasting on
the stuff that has accumulated at short intervals on the roads
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