The Doon Mozaic, Swachh Bharat and Dilemma of Dehradun Swacch Bharat and Dilemma of Dehradun | Page 24

The Smart City Mission for Dehradun still lacks the facility to provide accom-
modation to homeless people. Most of the times money from the funds are ex-
tracted by officials in mid way(that is the black money) before it could be used
to provide facilities to the society. With the population so high, there is not
even a hand full of public washrooms in Dehradun and among them also female
washrooms can rarely be found and even the ones available are not in a condi-
tion to be used. Most of them are just for men. There should be proper, well
maintained public toilets with in 2 kilometers at least. The reason why people
pay taxes is for the well being, betterment of society, then why are the taxes
being taken when people can not even get washrooms or dustbins nearby. Small
things like installing dustbins within few distances can help to improve the con-
dition a lot. If separate dustbins for biodegradable and no biodegradable are
available then it will be easier to use organic waste to use as manure and recycle
the inorganic waste such as plastic bottles. The municipal corporation is respon-
sible for these things they should provide such facilities. If dustbins will be pro-
vided at several places, people will not dump the waste at one place or even in
the sewers, that the people selling street foods tend to do, that leads to choking
of city's sewer system. To repair that roads are broken and again it takes several
months in order to reconstruct it, causing so much trouble to the public. The
habits of people get spoiled because there are not enough rules and facilities.
Like a spoilt child needs time to understand what's right, the people would re-
quire time, the government just needs to be strict and alert and not ignorant.
There should be cameras especially near the dustbins so that people don't throw
the litters outside it. Heavy fines should be imposed if done so. The absence of
dustbins and public washrooms can cause severe diseases. We want a hygienic
environment and healthy population.
Without cleanliness city can never become smart as it is said: "Our thoughts
can never be clear when our surrounding isn't". It's not something that we just
need to talk about and then forget, this concept should be embedded into the
minds of all so deeply that even the act of throwing a single toffee wrapper on
the ground that seems completely innocuous make their heart ache, and they
think a dozen times before messing up our beautiful mother earth and that too