Despite the ongoing nationwide drive for cleanliness, several nooks and corners found chunked with garbage and solid waste in Bokaro. The condition of the satellite city Chas and City Center the heart of the steel City are also the same.
Earlier on the PM’s appeal for ‘Swachcch Bharat Abhiyan’, the who’s who including ministers, politicians, administrative officials, hundreds of the common people joined the drive. They came out with broom, got snapped and even clean their nearby areas but later none of them found intact with the drive.
The people who got snapped on the first day of the drive did not turn up on the second to continue the clean India drive. No one shown their enthusiasms towards the drive and people of the twin cities found less concerned over the cleanliness drive. Apart from different parts of the cities, many posh areas center markers found with huge garbage dumps, can be seen at NH-23 too.
There is huge obstacle to dispose the waste as cities have no place to dispose the huge garbage being generated daily across the cities. Municipal Corporation finding it hard for dumping, said an official.
“One day cleaning will not help. It has to be regular, sustained and equipped with latest machines for decompose, else this drive or appeal sustained as tokenism of one day, said Sambhu a resident of Sector 4 B. “lack of solid waste management plant forcing the workers to dump garbage on roadsides”, he added.
Swachh Bharat is a laudable goal and the Prime Minister has done well to make it a priority, he said.