Well, it is an incident which happened today morning. It was around 8 am in the morning. I was on my way to office in the official cab. There was this cab which was going in front of me. A hand came out from the window and pop… a banana peel was dropped on the road. As I was wondering, are these the people whom we call the “educated lot”, my driver exclaimed.. “Madam, yeh toh apni hee company ki cab hai”. Now since our organisation has around 800 employees in my city, I just peeped out of my window to see whether I know this person. And I was surprised to see that this lady was a part of the regional team which is engaged in development of the resources’ competencies. Well, I guess I have been too clear about this employee, but it’s ok. If a person is not scared/ bothered about dirtying the environment, then even I am not scared to write about her in public forum, after all its MY country which she is polluting. Since morning, I was trying to locate her, so that I could give her a piece of my mind, but don’t know… she seems to be absconding!!
What I don’t understand is that how can a person have a heart to dirty the road on which we drive. And then we complain about the roads not being clean, about the localities being dirty etc. About 50 mtrs from that place, the corporation personnel was cleaning the road. He was doing his duty, early in the morning, but what can even the administration do, if people like us, graduates from premier business schools, engg colleges, and other professional institutes working in MNC’s behave like this,.
Can’t you wait for 5 minutes to reach office and throw the banana peel in the dustbin? Well, isn’t it our responsibility, not only to keep the environment away from pollution but also to preach others to do the same?
There are simple things which can make our city/ country atleast a bit cleaner. I hear people say, “sirf main nahi fenku toh kitna fark pad jaayega? (what difference will it make even if I don’t throw)”… well, I can just say, every person’s effort’s matter…
Why can’t we carry a small bag when we go to a picnic or anywhere out and keep on accumulating the waste there, and throw it whenever we find a dustbin!! Is that too much to ask for!?!?!
What I don’t understand is that how can a person have a heart to dirty the road on which we drive. And then we complain about the roads not being clean, about the localities being dirty etc. About 50 mtrs from that place, the corporation personnel was cleaning the road. He was doing his duty, early in the morning, but what can even the administration do, if people like us, graduates from premier business schools, engg colleges, and other professional institutes working in MNC’s behave like this,.
Can’t you wait for 5 minutes to reach office and throw the banana peel in the dustbin? Well, isn’t it our responsibility, not only to keep the environment away from pollution but also to preach others to do the same?
There are simple things which can make our city/ country atleast a bit cleaner. I hear people say, “sirf main nahi fenku toh kitna fark pad jaayega? (what difference will it make even if I don’t throw)”… well, I can just say, every person’s effort’s matter…
Why can’t we carry a small bag when we go to a picnic or anywhere out and keep on accumulating the waste there, and throw it whenever we find a dustbin!! Is that too much to ask for!?!?!
4 comments:
Wah!Kya vichaar hain. Main to dhanya ho gaya. Please take a bag next time when we go out,ok. Atleast for us, it's ur responsibility. Isn't it?
Infact, I suggest you to carry the bag to the office as well so that next time when you see sb(like that lady of regional team) you can offer that bag to her/him and our raods would be clean and you would be happy. Hai na good idea, Mrs.Road-lover.;)
hey sis! Gr8 thot yaar... aur agli baar wo ladki dhike to use ek aad baat to suna he dena... :)
m proud of u!!
i too have same experience.i went out with my family(in laws) and i was luking for a dustbin for throwing banana peel where the street was full of 'kachra'. my MIL said 'ooo kya hai ...yahin daal de!!!' but i replied tht we shud keep our country clean , abhi hum hi baat kar rahe they ki kitna kachra hai yahan aur hum hi...... but she was like making fun of me. i was holding tht peel in my hands in the car , whole way.
was having an urge to make her understand few things but dint said anything.
then nxt time in jpr when i went with her and shanu to a park, she told him to throw his ice cream stick in corner of park but i stopped him and took him near dustbin and asked him to bin it. and also gave him word that we shud always...blah blah blah. we came back to her and he said to MIL , 'amma chachi sahi kehti hain , hum agar dustbin mein nahi daalenge toh park saaf kaise rahega na , fir hum kahan khelenge aur kahan baith ke khayenge'
MIL ignored what he said, ego u know. but i dont understand , when a boy of 6-7 yrs can understand why people who are sooooo educated dont. kya mental level hai? no common sense??? no buddhi???
i wud call such pple, like that lady, padhe likhe ganwaar....
u know such pple make the difference. here in UK even simple parks look so beautiful coz they r damn clean. even a 2 yr old knows where to trash.and in our country , beautifulmost place are not so appealing jst b coz they r not clean ,otherwise india is the best.
good job arpita to enlight such issue. hope it makes lil difference. and such lil differemces can make a BIG difference one day.
man, i never knew that u were so concious...kudos....me too sadedened by such things happening b4 my eyes...
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