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 !!!
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