Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Mar 23: The Dakshina Kannada district has always taken pride in claiming to be a highly educated district with a lot of intelligent people. It was recently declared as an open defecation free district.
However, before taking credit for this appreciable feat, one should not lose sight of the fact that we have turned the district into a storehouse of garbage because it is everywhere and the people are responsible for this situation.
Under the 'Swachh Bharat Mission', the central government has been sanctioning grants to individual gram panchayats to enable them to collect the garbage generated in their respective areas and to dispose them off in a scientific manner. But the people of Dakshina Kannada have created a situation under which they have to sit up and cogitate on whether they are justified in creating the notion of being part of a district of intelligent people.
Of course, garbage disposal has become a huge challenge for all the countries including the developed ones. Sortinkg out the garbage into wet, dry, and e-waste has itself become a major challenge for them because the market has become consumer-centric, and the people's income has gone up. More things are wasted and thrown away now than ever before. Dakshina Kannada, which takes credit for having the most educated people and is open defecation free, is failing in the matter of garbage handling.
Heaps of plastic bags filled with wet waste are found everywhere as the people take responsibility only for taking out the garbage bags from the houses and disposing them off away from their own homes. Therefore, garbage including damaged or replaced bathroom fixtures are seen to have been abandoned by the sides of the road. Every road, including the municipal, zilla panchayat and national highways, are lined up with garbage bags. People find it easy to take the garbage on their two-wheelers or four wheelers and dispose them off when the vehicle is moving to see that their own problems are addressed, as they fail to realise that they are creating problems for the other citizens..
Many gram panchayats have not started the practice of sorting out the garbage before they are handled and disposed of. The areas where unsightly garbage heaps can be sighted are Konaje, Kinya, Talapady, Ullal, and Deralakatte. Plastic, the most hazardous thing to be disposed of, is thrown with impunity by the roadside instead of giving to the garbage collection vehicles separately.
Burning of plastic releases dangerous gases and this smoke is bad for health. But people burn plastic bags filled with garbage by the roadsides. This can give rise to grave health issues including cancer and there is demand that the local bodies have to take action against such things. But the gram panchayats which find it hard to get these things done, are trying to shy away from this responsibility. Therefore people feel free to throw bags everywhere. Prime minister Narendra Modi, has been giving top priority for cleanliness but the people of Dakshina Kannada seem to be hell bent on defeating his efforts.
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KRPrabhu, Bangaluru/Mangalore
Thu, Mar 24 2022ನಮ್ಮ ಊರುಡು ಮಸ್ತ್ ತುದೆಕುಲು ಉಳ್ಳ.ಒರ ಕಾಂಡೆ ಲಕ್ಕ್ ದ್ ತುದೆ ತೋಯಿಜಿಡ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನಕ್ಲೆಗ್ ದಿನ ಸುರು ಆಪುಜಿ. ಅಯಿಕ್ ದಾದ ಪಂಪರ್?
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Neil A Rodrigues, Mangalore
Thu, Mar 24 2022DK was very advanced protecting everybodys right. What happend to this. I volunteer to stop woman abuse and domestic violence. What is the current society doing to reduce this abuse. Dony ask what country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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T.Lobo, Bejai
Wed, Mar 23 2022When the mind is filled with garbage and blood shed they why bother simple physical garbage. But one thing became clear when it comes to administration law and order members of certain community do better than members of other communities.
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Thomasaquin, Mangalore
Wed, Mar 23 2022Just go to the beach and see. You can see multitudes defacating.
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John Tauro, M'lore
Wed, Mar 23 2022Plastic manufacturers can help by arranging to collect used disposable plastic bags along with other old plastic goods for recycling.
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Rita, Germany
Thu, Mar 24 2022John Tauro mangalore ,yes of course they can collect and do recycling.But they will not .because they profit more from producing and selling ,recycling costs more than that because colleting process and sortout will be costlier.Who wants to spend more?First of all citizens must be aware of their envirement and less plastic to use ,or throw around what in water and rivers etc.Its a menace problem to everyone .Take a bag when u go for shopping is not a problem.Or wash and reuse it.
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Jossey Saldanha, Raheja Waterfront
Wed, Mar 23 2022BJP cannot implement their own Policies ...
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Charles D'Mello, Pangala
Wed, Mar 23 2022Instead of doing open defecation, people must be doing it in plastic bags which are provided in every grocery shop for free....!!!!?????
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vishnu bhat, bangalore
Wed, Mar 23 2022Dashina Kannada was 'highly educated and forward looking' in the distant past. It is now a communal cauldron with people dancing to tunes of vested interests - all 'education' out of the window. what use ODF when the mind is filled with communal garbage?
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N Mukkawala, kinnigoly
Wed, Mar 23 2022People are highly religious & sensitive , ironically doesn't know that cleanliness is next to Godliness . God is everywhere ,so please dont dump anywhere .
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Vinod Kumar, Mangalore
Wed, Mar 23 2022it’s ‘Free Open Defacation’ under BJP govt. BJP is on way to ‘Smart Shitty’ .
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