This has negated a year-long effort by locals even though they had some 80 staff of the Kolkata Improvement Trust (KIT) to clean the garbage. The staff is seldom seen nowadays and, therefore, the vigil against littering and plastics has collapsed.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 6 October 2015.
The KIT has more than 70 staff, but, only 5-6 of them are engaged for cleaning it is impossible for six people to keep a 190-acre area clean and plastic-free. Added is the menace of hawkers – no other park in the city permits hawkers to enter and, in spite of a court order, they have a field day. And, they are responsible to generate garbage.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)
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