CLEAN KERALA, CLEAN INDIA

We the so called 'clean' Malayalees and the Indians as a whole can stand in a challenge to find the most unclean people in the world. We can expect the stop slot. We have made the country so dirty that we cannot clean the whole country overnight. We need to get organised first. To keep the country clean and maintain it as clean ever are the first two two steps. The former one can be achieved by learning about cleanliness by ourselves and teaching the same all those around us. We can find all about cleaning our surroundings from different advanced countries around the world. Towards the later, the children of today should learn more and more about cleaning of our surroundings. We must include this on top most priority to the syllabus from class 4 to class 12.

Alongwith the above steps, we must stop forcefully making our surroundings unclean. The first in this is should stop writing on walls all around, pasting posters everywhere, placing of publicity boards near the roads and at public places. We should not allow to place flags all around the public places. Stringent law should be made by all panchayats, municipalities and corporations to keep their respective regions. The judiciary may certainly support. Need not wait for the state or central governments to formulate suitable law immediately. They will not stand against the local self governance with the only anticipation of cleanliness of the country. They can also keep some boards erected at a few places on chargeable basis for all publicity needs. If defaulters are heavily penalised, antisocial elements shall not venture in to make our surroundings dirty.

Once these much are achieved we may move ahead for further cleanliness. Since our local bodies are adequately empowered in this direction they can straight away get into action. Best wishes to all local bodies in associating to keep our country clean!

K V George