A.D'Cunha, India

As the caption reads-whose job its anyway, it is foremost is the duty of every citizen to keep the surrounding clean. This is not politicians job nor the job of some keep sakers. They can just provide some regulatory help, then again, it is upto each one of us to follow through. Every one of us keep our houses clean, decorate them and preserve them as a relic.

That means we are capable of everything. Therefore as you do to your home do to your surroundings and it is good to all. Every Indian city has been exploded with population and certainly people create waste and dump in public places and expect the municipality to take care of it. This I call as irresponsible citizenship. Dont envy those nations which appear to be clean on the surface. It requires determination and civic responsibility to keep our nation clean.

Perhaps it is in order to create a day "Cleanig day" and every citizen chips in along with Miunicipal and community people to tidy up. Let us not have the attitude such as "its not in my backyard" attitude. Then only we can be clean to maintain our surroundings litter free.

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A.NAIK, Mangalore / Toronto

I think we should educate people on environment and their surroundings in a more proactive way ,many of our population do not have any idea what damage they are doing to themselves by discarding garbage in a iresponsible manner .

The MCC should have campaigns which it can if it wants making the public aware on this issue. Another important way is to have a subject on environment on our schools , that way our future generations are well aware.

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Anil Danthy, Mangalore kkdy

Good work Mr.Lancy..but what to do?We are royal people of Mangalore na?How can our people lack sensitivity about the city's cleanliness.I pity those poor cleaners from MCC.God save them and give some sense to our Kudla people...

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Joe, Mangalore/USA

It is really the best articlel I have come across.Keeping our city clean is a job of every individual.It should be in our blood right from our birth.While I was in the middle east I have seen our Indian friends doing the same thing that they would do back home ie.spitting on the streets after chewing tobacco or blowing once nose with their bare hands in a restaurant as if no one was around them.

I still remember one of the Gulf countries had even banned betel leaf being imported so as to stop this bad behavior of our people.

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adeline, kadri alvares lane manglore

You have to also catch the stray dogs and put them in cage because they also in some way dirty our surroundings .

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adeline, kadri alvares lane manglore

More dustbins must be made available, which cant be seen in every area.

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prakash n rao, mangalore

Everything should first start at home. See the bin outside the Mangalore City Corporation, it is full of garbage strewn outside, then how somebody will expect that the garbage should not be thrown in the bin.

Take the case of toilet in the MCC Building itself. Tfhere is no water. The toilets are stinking. First let them keep their [MCC] area neat and clean, then make others follow. The best thing would be that the MMC should place bins at all the places around the City and lift it at Night.Second these bins should have a locking system, so that rag pickers and dogs do not pull out the garbage and strewn outside.

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Lloyd Cutinha, Mangaluru - Valencia / Bahrain

Wow first of all I am really excited watching that the Corporation of Mangalore has providing New sleek and large garbage bins Hats off to them. Since all these years we all have been just used to concrete made round bins and in some places these bins were so worse as the shape of the 3/4 moon. Now we need to blame ourselves.

We being the citizens and residents we must keep our envoirment clean its just possible to avoid such things when people become serious and think that its every individuals responsibility to maintain cleanliness.This will surely control diseases all arround. But only when the citizens wake up and follow standards such as maintained in foreign countries. When Other Countries Can Do Why Can't We ?.

The M C C should bring up a policy for this matter by which they could try to solve this problem. The dust bins should be provided at certian points within a area which should be marked up in the form of a block number . The residents belonging to this block should be penalised home wise if any littered garbage at any bin points is visible out side the bin or any where else either than the provided bin.

This is my suggestion which could really help as other countries strictly follow.

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Mithilraj, Mangaluru

I am very much happy with this article. The article is good but our educated people are very bad. The cleanliness should come from birth. If the people go out side of our country they will follow the cleanliness of that country. In our democratic  country they do what ever they want to do.

Cleanliness should be introduced in our education system. From there child should understand our surroundings and beautiful nature. Mangaluru is especially dominated by high qualified people. Their qualification is only meant for job not for preserving our nature and good health.

Still malaria is haunting our city. At the same time Corporation should give gloves and safety equipment to the workers who deal with the removal of  garbage. I appreciate Daijiworld for publishing these  type of articles to evoke public. awareness.

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