At long last someone has realized that cleanliness cannot come through photo ops sessions of ministers and babus sweeping the clean streets with brand new brooms – of course, the broom sellers have made money as have agencies who have jumped on to the bandwagon of the cleanliness fad.
One must get to the root of the problem and contain menaces like street dogs, swinging monkeys and cattle left loose on the stress – they not only pollute and litter the surroundings but prevent the country from being transformed into a Swachh Bharat.
Therefore, the NGO must be congratulated who has moved the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the Centre to take concrete steps to deal with the "increasing menace" of stray dogs and monkeys in the national capital and have them "eliminated".
These animals are "defiling" the Prime Minister's 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan'.
This has been reported in
ibnlive.com dated 22 July 2015.
The court was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by NGO, Society For Public Cause, which said that Section 399 of Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957, provides for control and regulation of dogs.
It is not only stray dogs but cattle on the roads and monkeys in the trees that also need to be controlled if India has to become a clean country and fulfil the dreams of a Swachh Bharat.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)
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