Sir,
Though the Swachh Bharat concept is gaining ground everywhere now, in Bhubaneswar, where cleanliness is least cared about. Come evening, people rush to the many mobile non-vegetarian food joints and chaat stalls, unhesitatingly occupying public footpaths on the main thoroughfares hindering free traffic movement.
The places are surrounded by stray dogs awaiting the throw of meat pieces. Added to this, abandoned private buildings in the city serve as convenient dump yards for domestic rejects and civic wastes alike (wet and dry), including emptied tender coconut shells. Post evening, the places turn into boozers’ paradises. Open urination and defecation is unabated.
I pity the lack of minimum civic awareness among our brethren in keeping Bhubaneswar clean.
Hence, there is an urgent need for the civic body to take serious note of this, initiate action to shoo away mobile eateries, ensure cleanliness and keep people secured from the health hazards having food at such highly-polluted environs.
K Ravi, E-237,GGP Colony, Bhubaneswar-751025, Mob: 9437616497