My office is 16 km from my home so I use to go to office by my office bus. Due to traffic the bus takes around 35-45 minutes to reach office. Listening to FM radio is my favorite time pass. I usually tune in SFM as it’s my favorite radio channel. From last few days SFM has started a social awareness move in which they talk about some of the common problems in Pune. They talk about the problem, they talk to the people who are really facing the problem and they also try to contact the authorities responsible to resolve the problem. The RJ of this show is Ashwin and the name of the show is ‘Guru Ho Ja Shuru’, if I am correct. Though the program uses to be in a mix of Marathi and Hindi languages I manage to understand most of it. This show reminds me of the movie “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”.
I am taking you direct to Ashwin’s today’s show. Today he talked about the efforts the common man can take in order to keep his city clean. In any city in India, it’s very common to see many posters on the roads, public places, and government properties or even on some private properties and Pune is also not an exception. These posters use to be of local coaching classes, institutions, shops and some local vendors and these are of course illegal. So according to Ashwin, “ We being responsible to keep our Pune clean can react on these illegal things and rather than just ignoring these we can call them and tell them to remove the posters unless they are authorize to do so”. Ashwin did the same on his show, he called few such people and warned them to remove the posters by evening otherwise he would file a complaint against them. Most of them agreed and apologized for the same, saying that they weren’t aware that this was illegal. He also talked to the labors that use to fix such posters on the walls during mid-night and they told that they do this only for money and they are unaware of why the posters are for. Out of the people he called one had posters of his institute scattered all around Deccan Zimkhana area and he promised to remove that by tomorrow morning.
The moral of the story is we should be awake in order to make our environment better. Radio is a very powerful medium and I congratulate SFM for making very good use of it. Who does not like to visit a neat and clean place? I heard people saying that US, UK are very beautiful as compared to India, people are very civilized there, they keep the city clean… bla…bla.. As far as I know Indians also live there in a good number. We go there and join the hands with the foreigners to keep their city clean, why can’t we do the same here? We love to visit parks, we love to visit beautiful places, and we love to spend time where there is greenery. But we always search for such places rather developing our premise in that way. You must be thinking that money is required for everything, but dear friend above example shows that if we wish there are few things which still can be done without money to keep the environment clean and healthy.
Taking a break and request you to find some time to ponder on such things.
Cheers,
Kamlesh
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3 comments:
accha hai kamlesh, par techie ke paas apna rating badhwane aur switch maarne se time hai jo wo city clean karega.
nice article :)
Well written kamlesh. Excuses are the main problem with us. We find all the reasons not to do the right things.
Its not about cleaning up the city but seeing to it that it is not littered in the first place.
We do know we need clean cities and villages but how many of us really search for dust bins when we have to dispose off waste. we conveniently relieve ourselves by throwing the waste anywhere we like. How many of us carry our waste back home if a dust bin is not at hand.
We the techies ... the so called educated and highly paid never care about where we throw bits of paper, cigarette buts, chocolate/chewing gum wrappers and more, do we??
Very true Anil! I do agree with this. We the techies can do only one thing. If you compile such discussion in form of email, we will take privilege to forward or rather spam it to our friend's inbox. But we hardly think over the actual message behind it. What Kanishk said sounds harsh but is a bitter truth.
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