How Can We Keep Our Locality Clean? Tell Your Story of ‘Swachha’ Initiation

The community must make its contribution with a collective event on the last Saturday in each month when traffic, including airport taxis, is stopped for three hours in the morning, and the state comes together to tidy up. In that day, all able-bodied people between the ages of 18 and 65 would provide free labour for state-led projects like school building, road works, the construction of sanitation facilities and digging of anti-erosion ditches.

Anyone convicted of dropping litter must be fined up to ₹10000 for the first conviction. Repeat convictions cost up to ₹60000, and may lead to a community service orders or anti-littering lectures, to curb repeat offenders. In the case of a third offence, law-breakers may be made to wear a sign reading “I am a litter lout”. For putting spent chewing gum anywhere other than a bin, for urinating in lifts or outdoors and for failing to flush a public lavatory you get a ₹5000 fine.

Cleanliness is godliness. Lessons on cleanliness should be part
of curriculum at schools beginning from primary level. It should
be continued at various levels or stages even during secondary
and higher education levels. Apart from this, there should be awareness campaigns held periodically in colleges, universities, offices and forums of large gatherings. Electronic media and print media also needs to play proactive role in spreading this
awareness to the masses through radio and newspaper.

Area Charaideo dist. Gorokhia Bam Gaon.
Communication is very poor.
Rout is very mud and gravel are growing less so there can not be drive any easily any vehicle.
Plz help the people taking necessary action for development.

In Lachit Nagar, Bye Lane 7, Sub Lane 1, garbage collection is not happening for the last 4 months. Citizens are paying the quarterly fees also. Kindly help at the earliest.

We have wards and gaon panchayats all over Assam. The Govt. can organise competitions among the registered Unnayan Samities of wards or panchayats constituencywise on swachhata. The winner will be awarded cash prizes which will be used for developental activities in their areas as per their choices. Before organising such competitions modalities have to be formulated. Like ODF area we can have Swaachha Gaon or Ward.

Pranjal Sharma
Area Sabha Representative
Guwahati Municipal Corporation

Be the change that you want to see in others: We always complain about the things and processes that have not been taken care of… Most of the time we ourselves don’t follow them. The first thing that is needed to be done is to change ourselves into the person we want others to be. Why wait for other to do the right things, take initiative and lead the way.

Pick up after your pets. If you have pets that go for walks, especially dogs, make sure you pick up their poop. Nobody wants to see it, smell it, or even accidentally step in it. Follow your pets with a plastic bag to clean up after them, and make sure you throw the bag away in a trash bin. Leaving your pets’ waste behind can lead to the spread of disease and promote the spread of flies.