Mehak Gupta Grover
Clean India Mission being started by Government Of India, under the leadership of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is a national campaign to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. India’s biggest Cleanliness drive took place where Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself cleaned the road. All the big film stars and big personalities also joined in and started cleaning the roads.
But how did we come to know about it? Obviously through social media groups. Frankly speaking, it became more of a ‘ Selfie Mission ‘ where people started posing and uploading on social networking sites. What happened after that? Still India is the same. Except few serious NGO’S and groups, nobody else is bothered.
We all want a changed India. We all want a clean India. We talk about it. We criticise the system, the government, the friend who peed in public, the aunt next door who throws her garbage on the road from her balcony, and what not. We cringe.
But what WE DO? NOTHING!
We can keep on being querulous about the present scenario. We say that even if we clean the road or playground,it becomes dirty or filthy again or we can also join some mission. Clean some area, get clicked, upload on Facebook.
This mission is a politics free campaign and inspired by patriotism. It is launched as a responsibility of each and every citizen to make this country a swachh country. Cleanliness is not a small problem that can be solved by individuals volunteering to clean up on a particular day. The masses- our real strength has to be involved in the process. Our Prime Minister has already started delivering on this front by converting clean India Mission into mass movement. Now it is our responsibility to carry it further. If every indian inculcate clean hygienic habits, we can go a long long way in curbing the menace. Youth must get involved in this field. They should be encouraged to take up careers as entrepreneurs in fields like sanitation, waste management, green infrastructure and so on.
All those who travel abroad,don’t you get disgusted feeling as you exit from Indian airports on your way back home? Just after airport premises, we are greeted with filth and garbage on road, non stop honking, people spitting out of their vehicles and what not! And very frankly, how many of us litter foreign places, when we go abroad? Nobody ! Because we find those cities so beautiful and neat, we don’t feel like spoiling them. Then why not in our country? Why do we take our country, our government for granted? Don’t we have any role to play?
Much like charity begins at home, sanitation and hygiene starts with you and me. It’s time to stand up,clear your throat and speak up. Things don’t change overnight, one doesn’t wake up one morning to find all clean roads and no dirt, dust. We all need to make an effort. If we come together, we can make a difference. Every action we take will be important.
“PUT YOUR WORDS INTO YOUR ACTIONS BECAUSE TALKING IS NOT CLEANING”
It is good to see that someone in the country has this ‘ out of box’ thinking- Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But it is really disappointing to see the thinking of the average man in this country about this serious issue. It is not just shocking, but terrible to see such ignorance and carelessness on our role as citizens of India. If we can’t stop urinating and littering in public, we do not honestly deserve a ‘swachh bharat’ because change starts with your own self.
Father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi said-
“Be the change that you want to see in the world”
If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. Personal and social transformations go hand in hand. Filth is not only present outside in the society. It is also present inside us. We need to take out the dirt which is inside us- Selfdom, covetousness, preponderance and so on. It is more important to clean our innerself and obviously when we have great thoughts within us, outside dust would automatically follow. Open your mind, expand your thoughts, and you would see a drastic change. Be the change!
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