Points: A nice adage – Everything is unclean everywhere – remedies suggested – conclusion.
‘Cleanliness is next to godliness’ is a nice adage. We quote it when we write an essay. The leaders quote it when they rain platitudes from milk. The Health Department uses it on posters. But it is sooner uttered than forgotten.
We talk of progress, and blame poverty for all evils. Poverty is no doubt responsible for the hovels and ugly slums, for the tatters worn by the beggars. But there is another poverty which we don’t discuss, the poverty of our outlook. We don’t see dirt, we don’t smell filth and we are not disturbed by the roadside garbage and the stinking footpaths. The parks, the bus-stops, the railway stations stare glaringly’ a us with their haphazard arrangements and stark disorders. Epidemics break out easily from such infected places.
First we should make our city or living area clean before we can think of making it beautiful, too. The municipalities and panchayets must introduce definite measures to ensure clean road and clean house-fronts. In the western countries heavy fines are imposed if even the dry leaves of trees lie strewn on the ground before a house, and people are not allowed to burn anything emitting smoke. They use litter cans and litter boxes and never soil the road.
They never put garbage’s except at a fixed place and always in cellophane bags which are promptly carried away. There is no reason why we cannot enforce such rules and encourage such practices.
Without waiting for the Govt. to take steps, voluntary youth organizations should come forward and in every locality introduce a weekly service called ‘Clean your own area’. It should develop into a movement involving men, women, specially youths. Let us live clean and make clean, let everybody keep his where about clean.
‘Cleanliness is next to godliness’ is a nice adage. We quote it when we write an essay. The leaders quote it when they rain platitudes from milk. The Health Department uses it on posters. But it is sooner uttered than forgotten.
We talk of progress, and blame poverty for all evils. Poverty is no doubt responsible for the hovels and ugly slums, for the tatters worn by the beggars. But there is another poverty which we don’t discuss, the poverty of our outlook. We don’t see dirt, we don’t smell filth and we are not disturbed by the roadside garbage and the stinking footpaths. The parks, the bus-stops, the railway stations stare glaringly’ a us with their haphazard arrangements and stark disorders. Epidemics break out easily from such infected places.
First we should make our city or living area clean before we can think of making it beautiful, too. The municipalities and panchayets must introduce definite measures to ensure clean road and clean house-fronts. In the western countries heavy fines are imposed if even the dry leaves of trees lie strewn on the ground before a house, and people are not allowed to burn anything emitting smoke. They use litter cans and litter boxes and never soil the road.
They never put garbage’s except at a fixed place and always in cellophane bags which are promptly carried away. There is no reason why we cannot enforce such rules and encourage such practices.
Without waiting for the Govt. to take steps, voluntary youth organizations should come forward and in every locality introduce a weekly service called ‘Clean your own area’. It should develop into a movement involving men, women, specially youths. Let us live clean and make clean, let everybody keep his where about clean.
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