Ever wondered where the garbage from your homes go? Did you know that hyderabad generates more than 3500 tonnes of garbage PER DAY? yes u must have seen dumpyards and sighed and tched away...and said " Oh well this is India!" but what have u an educated Indian/hyderabadi done to combat this problem? How many of us segregate waste? We take part in campaigns against global warming, which create awareness about environmental issues but when it comes to our own waste we just refuse to be associated with it. why should the municipality be responsible for your waste? Waste can be divided into dry and wet waste. dry waste generally includes the waste that cannot be recylcled and wet waste includes organic waste that can be converted into compost. all that one needs to do is separate the waste at the source level. Sukuki exnora an ngo in SWM has come up with an innovative idea of segregating and using waste. If it is implemented in localities across the city, we can expect a dust bin free society which means no dumpyards. The plan is simple. segregate ur waste. people would collect it from ur homes and make compost out of the organic waste and send the non biodegradable waste to companies. Its not difficult to implement, but wat is difficult is getting the people to cooperate. people just dont care! this is a fact! People think the municipality is responsible for their waste. FYI the municipality doesnt have a magic wand and the waste doesnt simply disappear into thin air! Visit a dumpyard and you will know what i am talking about. At one end is unchecked infrastructural growth and concretisation of our communities and cities and at the other end no proper solid waste management plan in place. This is a question for all the people working in MNC's out there- have u ever wondered how much waste your office might generate per day? try and find out. for your next CSR programme get involved in managing waste from your own offices and homes-after all charity begins at home. MNCs have an advantage- they have visibility, they have team spirit and they certainly do have dynamic spirited young leaders so why not tie up with ngos and manage ur waste? Maybe ur next team visit could be to the jawarharnagar dumping yard!
Solutions are plenty but people who cooperate are far and few in between!
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Hope Hope Hope- A beautiful word
What is it with seminars and lack of time sense? Either Hyderabadis are really laidback or the traffic situation is just getting worse! I had been sent to cover 4 press conferences and all of them started atleast half an hour. Sheer lack of time sense is plaguing this city and some times the seminars conducted are a sheer waste of time! A press release would have been enough in most of the cases.
There are two kinds of journalists in this world- one kind is the kind who sees the world in white and black and the other kind are the jaundiced journalists who are highly subjective and for all their preachings have no qualms accepting 'gifts' or 'gifts-in-form-of-cash'. It is a disturbing trend. A few rotten apples spoil the whole basket, well this holds good even in this field. Thanks to these jaundiced journalists, even the remaining ones are put in the same category and offered 'tempatations'. And don't even make the mistake of confronting the PROs who mislead the companies. They would cooly say that journalists accept money or gifts and you have put your leg in cowdung.
Sometimes i laugh at my thinking- my hope that every problem has a solution. And believe me every bloody problem in our country has a solution in black and white but what lacks is will power to implement it! We have policies for everything from providing free education to the specially abled to safeguarding pedestrian rights to guidelines to manage solid waste but somehow our dear politicians are just not aware of these policies or well care a damn about them.
It gets frustrating when you have to run from one department after another only to realise that goddamit there is a law, there is a policy but....! Babus just say But....and push the blame on another department. Its all about blame game. I am not whining. I am venting. Yes, we are to blame for this situation for this i-care-a-damn-about-u-citizen attitude from the administrators. we are nothing but mere vote banks for the politicians and we go about our duty of voting in the most indifferent and irresponsible manner possible. How many of us actually read the election manifestos or look at the background of the politicians? I came into the field hoping to change something..i am still leaving in Plato's ideal world- It doesnt exist. And idealists are mere memoirs in our country.... I m not someone who has lost hope, no i hope for this country, and i hope to c it change for the better..but i am someone who is wondering how and where it all starts.. will there be a big bang? what would change the things around us? Would writing about issues make any difference at all? Questions questions and more questions..and i am still searching for answers...
There are two kinds of journalists in this world- one kind is the kind who sees the world in white and black and the other kind are the jaundiced journalists who are highly subjective and for all their preachings have no qualms accepting 'gifts' or 'gifts-in-form-of-cash'. It is a disturbing trend. A few rotten apples spoil the whole basket, well this holds good even in this field. Thanks to these jaundiced journalists, even the remaining ones are put in the same category and offered 'tempatations'. And don't even make the mistake of confronting the PROs who mislead the companies. They would cooly say that journalists accept money or gifts and you have put your leg in cowdung.
Sometimes i laugh at my thinking- my hope that every problem has a solution. And believe me every bloody problem in our country has a solution in black and white but what lacks is will power to implement it! We have policies for everything from providing free education to the specially abled to safeguarding pedestrian rights to guidelines to manage solid waste but somehow our dear politicians are just not aware of these policies or well care a damn about them.
It gets frustrating when you have to run from one department after another only to realise that goddamit there is a law, there is a policy but....! Babus just say But....and push the blame on another department. Its all about blame game. I am not whining. I am venting. Yes, we are to blame for this situation for this i-care-a-damn-about-u-citizen attitude from the administrators. we are nothing but mere vote banks for the politicians and we go about our duty of voting in the most indifferent and irresponsible manner possible. How many of us actually read the election manifestos or look at the background of the politicians? I came into the field hoping to change something..i am still leaving in Plato's ideal world- It doesnt exist. And idealists are mere memoirs in our country.... I m not someone who has lost hope, no i hope for this country, and i hope to c it change for the better..but i am someone who is wondering how and where it all starts.. will there be a big bang? what would change the things around us? Would writing about issues make any difference at all? Questions questions and more questions..and i am still searching for answers...
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