It is about 70 years ago when Gandhi ji suggested that we remove the practice of carrying night soil on heads by poor scavengers. In the modern times when so much has been said and done in terms of technology about Solid Waste management it is sad to note that very little has been done about the garbage collection methodology . And still little has been done to change the mind set of an average Indian (whether rural or urban) which finds that garbage is untouchable and so are the SAFAI KARAMCHARIS and GARBAGE COLLECTORS.
Actually what should have been the FIRST STEP to the chain of solid waste management has not been even thought of . I would like to solicit support every individual /organisation / NGO to bring a simple change in mind set of all fellow Indians. They must think about the garbage collectors when they pack the garbage for removal from their houses/establishments. It is time we make the garbage safe for them to handle it. Although a lot has been done to make bio medical waste safe through pollution regulations but not much has been done on the common garbage frontbe it industrial or household.
We have to launch a campaign to make garbage safe (As discussed in my earlier blog on How to manage our GARBAGE ) because TILL DATE GARBAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM HAS NO PARTICIPATION FROM THE COMMON CITIZEN OF OTHER THAN PACKING IT IN A POLYTHENE BAG AND KEEPING IT OUTSIDE THE HOUSE SOME EVEN DO NOT DO THIS ALSO! Such garbage when handled by the poor safai karamcharis is a very big health hazard.
In order to make our country proud we need to make and maintain it as CLEAN AND NEAT AS POSSIBLE. To achieve this aim we need a committed ,well trained,motivated cleaning work force. No body wants to opt for this profession because it is not properly projected and paid for . We need to change our method of maintaining public places, We need to make them as mechanised as they are in the western world. We need to give dignity to the active participants or cleaners so that a person takes pride in the job he /she is doing rather than being sniggered on by others. As of now these persons are those who remain at the lowest rung of our society in terms of esteem,poverty and health.
It is high time that we treat and accord skilled person's status to our garbage handlers/public or private cleaners/road sweepers/ public toilet cleaners/janitors and pay them much higher wages as compared to the meagre ones being doled out to them now. We need to do this because the job they under take to keep our national environment clean is not undermined and we dispose off our refuse in a manner as it is being done in the most developed countries.
So many JAT SIKHS OR SO CALLED UPPER CASTES PERSONS are working as cleaners in CANADA and other foreign countries and they get fairly and adequately compensated. We have to create an work environment which ushers and and nurture DIGNITY OF LABOUR . We need to pay wage rates which are based the difficulty of the job performed and let this difficulty of work reflect in the WAGES.Also the numbers willing to do these types jobs will also decide demand and supply. We need to make this job scientific,mechanical,hygienic,free from health hazards work.
This is required in order to give a message to the outside world that we are actually on road to become developed and we pay attention to things which hither to fore were not our priority. We need to do this fast if we want to join the league of developed nations and drop the tag of being from the third world.
Actually what should have been the FIRST STEP to the chain of solid waste management has not been even thought of . I would like to solicit support every individual /organisation / NGO to bring a simple change in mind set of all fellow Indians. They must think about the garbage collectors when they pack the garbage for removal from their houses/establishments. It is time we make the garbage safe for them to handle it. Although a lot has been done to make bio medical waste safe through pollution regulations but not much has been done on the common garbage frontbe it industrial or household.
We have to launch a campaign to make garbage safe (As discussed in my earlier blog on How to manage our GARBAGE ) because TILL DATE GARBAGE COLLECTION SYSTEM HAS NO PARTICIPATION FROM THE COMMON CITIZEN OF OTHER THAN PACKING IT IN A POLYTHENE BAG AND KEEPING IT OUTSIDE THE HOUSE SOME EVEN DO NOT DO THIS ALSO! Such garbage when handled by the poor safai karamcharis is a very big health hazard.
In order to make our country proud we need to make and maintain it as CLEAN AND NEAT AS POSSIBLE. To achieve this aim we need a committed ,well trained,motivated cleaning work force. No body wants to opt for this profession because it is not properly projected and paid for . We need to change our method of maintaining public places, We need to make them as mechanised as they are in the western world. We need to give dignity to the active participants or cleaners so that a person takes pride in the job he /she is doing rather than being sniggered on by others. As of now these persons are those who remain at the lowest rung of our society in terms of esteem,poverty and health.
It is high time that we treat and accord skilled person's status to our garbage handlers/public or private cleaners/road sweepers/ public toilet cleaners/janitors and pay them much higher wages as compared to the meagre ones being doled out to them now. We need to do this because the job they under take to keep our national environment clean is not undermined and we dispose off our refuse in a manner as it is being done in the most developed countries.
So many JAT SIKHS OR SO CALLED UPPER CASTES PERSONS are working as cleaners in CANADA and other foreign countries and they get fairly and adequately compensated. We have to create an work environment which ushers and and nurture DIGNITY OF LABOUR . We need to pay wage rates which are based the difficulty of the job performed and let this difficulty of work reflect in the WAGES.Also the numbers willing to do these types jobs will also decide demand and supply. We need to make this job scientific,mechanical,hygienic,free from health hazards work.
This is required in order to give a message to the outside world that we are actually on road to become developed and we pay attention to things which hither to fore were not our priority. We need to do this fast if we want to join the league of developed nations and drop the tag of being from the third world.
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