BBC News - 'Ugly Indians' clean up Bangalore

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BBC News - 'Ugly Indians' clean up Bangalore

The Ugly Indians have a dare for the nation's cities.

Anonymity is a big attraction of the movement


"Show us one Indian city that can boast of one kilometre of clean street - with no open garbage dumps, no missing footpath slabs, no urine stench, no paan (betel leaf) stains on walls? Bangalore, we challenge you, is the only Indian city that now has 4km of streets clean from these four civic ills."


The Bangaloreans in the Ugly Indians civic group have spent every week of the past year trawling the city's central business district with face masks, gloves, buckets, broomsticks and mops.


Their mission is to "spot-fix" Bangalore, dirty street by dirty street, and has inspired the confidence to throw their "Ugliness Challenge" at other cities.


They choose small stretches each week to clean: pavements piled up with plastic, defaced walls, footpaths rendered unusable by potholes.


Here is the transformation they have done

In their own words,

“ No activism, no lectures, no awareness drives, no moralizing. Just go out and do it.”
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True to their motto, the group deliberately stays anonymous and avoids media hype and adulation. As the wise men say, “Media hype is like stepping onto dust. It gets into your eyes and distracts you from your goal”.






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[krish44]

we should have organised labour in place for clean up regulrly instead of volunteers. people should be penalised for throwing garbage and littering the streets, in delhi mcd has got vans with loudspeakers to collect garbage in narrow lanes at your door step every morning . it stops every few feet and citizens can deposit the garbage. in addition ,garbage pickers who make a living out of it and regular sweepers with brooms aid the effort . still the landfills are all filling up and newer places have to be found. electronic and medical wastes are becoming issues in recent days with no real solutions

 

[V.Balasubramani]

Sir,

In Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, the Corporation of Chennai is taking all out effortsto keep Chennai as a clean city.

Exnoramovement has already picked up and are also equally busy with various measures in improving the environment.

With a growing population of everyday (more than 4.68 million 2011 census), it is very difficult to maintain cleanliness especially when one section of the Chennaities litter the streets and public places liberally, the other small groups busy in clearing them.

Besides,there are dedicated voluntary groups which meet to- gether periodically and take up cleaning work.

Though the Government is very seriously taking effective action on matters like disposal bio-medical waste, cashing of trash, improving existing parks etc Chennai still needs more attention and action to give a clean look. An awareness has to be created among the Chennaities, so that, the mindset of the population change and they start using dustbins and think in terms of keeping this City as clean as their own houses.

I just want to point out that one of the senior members of this very same Forum used to mention Singara Chennai every time.

Hope our dream of Singara Chennai is not too far away.

The following links will throw more light on the subject:


http://indiatogether.org/stories/beach.htm

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/editors-note-on-clean-chennai/article4989570.ece

http://www.transparentchennai.com/in-the-face-clean-up-by-reclaiming-our-beaches-rob/




Good day.