Imagine walking around a breezy, sunny morning enjoying the fresh air that one rarely gets to experience in most parts of Nagpur due to all the construction and traffic when suddenly, you are next to a pile of garbage, being scavenged upon by our Mother Cow, man’s best friend, a dog and some birds. The odor is so strong that it makes you want to puke and run away from it. It’s a cesspool of maladies.
A similar horror can be experienced in several parts of Nagpur. Although some parts are fairly clean and you wouldn’t find any garbage even if you look for it, the title of being the cleanest city is a future far-far away.
A city is what it’s people and its administration want it to be. When people don’t segregate waste, throw leftovers on the road and spit wherever they want, the city becomes a garbage bag.
It collects all this waste, which then starts to decompose. There you have it, a perfect mixture of diseases and odors, all packaged as a pile of garbage. Not only the people of Nagpur, but also the administration are to be held accountable here. It is easy to find a broken public dustbin, hoping to be revived like a dying patient in an ICU, only to be turned upside down by some stray dogs in search of some nibbles. Most of the time you will not find any, when you need to dispose of a chocolate wrapper and banana peels. Inadequate facilities to dump waste in a public area, rare awareness drives regarding garbage disposal at home and in public and poor maintenance of existing garbage dumping facilities, such as public dustbins, are some of the major issues that must be rectified.
Garbage is just like weeds in a farm, it will grow slowly. It will thrive in the most adverse situations and suck all the best things the farm has to offer, eventually turning the farm into a wasteland. Nagpur is far from a wasteland, it’s a slow, growing city with an easy going attitude. However, it’s now upon the people of Nagpur to become a smart citizen, to turn it into a smart city.
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