SWACHH BHARAT
I hail PM Narendra Modi for launching his visionary mission Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) as part of his vision “Make in India“. He wants to convert India a global centre to invite the world to come and invest in India as the image of dirty India is a drag on investors to come to India.It is not a matter of pride for any Prime Minister of a country to start this kind of mission as it presupposes a unclean India.
A few cabinet Ministers tried to provide an impetus in advance to clean their Secretariat since a few days before which was criticized the ministerial efforts and tried to pooh pooh their mission. Though it was a symbolic mission on their part to exhibit the commitment of their government’s agenda.Obviously PM or the cabinet Ministers are not going to broom the floor of their work place but they only gave a signal to the people to keep their surroundings neat and clean.
The PM while speaking at Rajpath beseached that his Swachh Bharat Abhiyan should not be taken as a political statement but his sincere commitment to improvise the image of this nation in the eye of the world. He is one PM who has risen from the ranks and does not come from a blue blood family.When he was admitted in RSS for the first time, he was asked to live in RSS office and he was assigned the duties to keep the office clean and prepare tea and food for his senior Pracharaks. He used to broom the floor of the office (Young Narendra Modi’s photo brooking and cleaning the floor of the office uploaded many tomes on social media ),prepare food of his seniors.
So here is a person who has in his blood the commitment to cleanliness.
The PM has shown his vision and commitment,it is now our turn to fulfill his vision and restore our nation to order. Fallacy is,no body wants to live in unclean environment but still it is taboo for everybody not to clean his surroundings.One does not feel shy to tell others about and condemning the unclean environment but he is not prepared to take the broom even symbolically. In fact, it should be a matter of habit of keeping our environment neat and clean.When some important guest is likely visit our place,we run helter-skelter to clean our surroundings as he feels embarrassment in showing his dirty surroundings to his guest but once the guest leaves, he is back to square one. Why cleanliness should not be part of our life.
I do not hesitate to repeat what I had written in my earlier blog “Sine Qua Non” wherein I had described how children are taught citizenry responsibilities from childhood. My daughter lives in Canada. When her daughter was two and half years, she was put in a play school. My daughter was paying Can$ 250.00 per month. It is a big amount. I met my granddaughter for the first time when we went to Canada last year to celebrate her Third Birthday. We were amazed to see the behavior of a three year child. This year we again went to Canada to celebrate her Fourth Birthday which falls on May,16. She was completing second year in play school. The way she behaved and fulfilled her citizenry responsibilities was amazing. She would herself follow her good habits,at times she would tell me also:- Grandpa do not do this,Grandpa you should do this. I felt around of her. In two years she was hardly taught to recognize alphabets and numbers but she became perfect citizen at the age of four.
Suffice to say, we have to teach good behavior to our children from their childhood. So far elders are concerned, law enforcement agencies have to ruthlessly enforce the rules without any mercy. Politicians have to keep their hands completely off from interfering with the law enforcement agencies. After all now bikers are using helmets by and large.Car drivers are using seat belts. People are not allowed to violate traffic signals in Delhi. But go to Noida or Faridabad or Gurgaon, these rules are seldom followed. I feel like fool when I drive in Noida as others hardly follow traffic signals.
To conclude, I only appeal to friends to follow and abide by all the norms which we expect others to follow. When we go abroad, we follow all the rules as there law enforcement agencies scare people but the moment we land India, we forget all the norms. Let us teach our children good norms so that it keeps reminding us also the norms.
I hope by our honest efforts, we contribute and help PM Modi to realize his vision of Swachh Bharat and pull India to the level of a global country.
The Government are setting apart a huge amount of Rs.200000 Cr.for creating infrastructures of cleanliness in rural and urban areas unlike Sheila Dixit’s vision creating public conveniences at inconvenient places in Delhi and that too keeping it locked all the time.
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