Trash bins crowding chennai roads

Let us face it!  Only in India, the road is considered FREE for all.  The vendors can set up stalls on the road.  The utility companies like telephone, electricity, etc. can erect their equipments on the sidewalks.  The corporation can park their road laying equipments on the road.  The trash bins can be placed on the road.  Public can spit, pee, litter, etc. on the road.  Of course, after all this, if there is still space left, cars, bikes, and pedestrians may use the road...

I feel that roads serve a specific purpose of mobilising traffic.  Removing everthingelse from the street is a prudent thing to do.  While my attempt is not necessarily to make this happen, at the very least, we should try and see if there is something that can be done which is easily implementable and that would benefit all.

I am talking about trash bins.  Today, in a metro like Chennai, there are apartment complexes all over the place.  The Electricity board has already made it mandatory for apartments to erect transformers inside the complex.  Similarly, the Chennai Sanitation Department can make it mandatory that each apartment complex keep the trash bins inside the complex.  This way, the street trash bins can be reduced only for usage by the people on the street and individual homes.  There are several advantages for doing this.

When you keep the trash bins inside the apartments, they are generally well maintained by the apartment association and trash is not strewn all over the place.

It makes it easier to segregate Green waste from other non biodegradable waste

The streets would be relatively cleaner.

The corporation of Chennai can charge extra for high waste producing establishments like restaurants, marriage halls, hospitals, etc. so that separate crew can be engaged just to clean these establishments.

I have sent a note to this effect to the Chennai Corporation Mayor several times.. But, I really doubt if anyone in the department has ever read it.

CLEAN CITY LEADS TO HEALTHY LIVING !!!

Saving the children from Kidnapping - who is responsible? The state, school, or the parents?

Everyone knows that last month (Nov, Dec 2010), there were episodes of kidnapping and murder of school children by various criminals in Tamil Nadu.  Immediately following these incidents, the State Police Department took instant steps to strengthen the police presense outside of schools, and other public places.  Now that it has been over a month since the incident, you do not see the kind of police that were there when the news was still 'hot'.  Let us face it !

 

Is it really possible for the police to ALWAYS have hundreds of police force guarding the schools all the time?

 

Are the criminals really gullible enough to wait outside of schools to kidnap the children? 

 

I mean, who has the real interest in the safety of the children?  I would hope to think that it should be the parents first and secondly, may be the schools.  Yes, the state has the larger interest in keeping the law and order of the state but that is only in a larger perspective.  I would put parents and schools ahead of the state.

 

To my surprise, neither of them seem to have done anything on that. 

 

May be the parents have individually coached their kids on safe practices to protect against kidnapping, I really would not know that.  But, I certainly expected the schools to immediately send a circular, call for special PTA meeting or other sorts to create awareness on safety practices for their wards

 

My child (16 year old) goes to a well endowed city school that boasts having the facility of internet where they send exam schedules, fee schedules, etc. to parents by email.  There has NOT been a single mail telling parents what they should do, how to guide and coach the children to be safe.  Also, the schools can easily create an environment where the parents could collaborate to ensure the safety of every child in the school but that has not been done.

 

I believe in 'Prevention is better than cure',  I feel that whether there is kidnapping taking place or not, periodically, such mails of importance should be sent to all the parents, either by email or by snail mail. Why do they not do that?

 

Why have they not acted even after several incidences? 

Do they not care?