Dustbin deficiency plagues Shillong
The Meghalaya government’s latest endeavour, the ‘My City Campaign,’ claims to tackle the city’s garbage woes, but is it merely an euphemism for the ‘garbage maze’ caused by the glaring absence of dustbins?
A stroll through Motphran, the city’s beating heart, unveils a landscape marred by the pungent aroma of careless dumping and towering piles of rubbish.
Meanwhile, Police Bazar, touted as ‘no littering area’, paints a starkly different picture with garbage scattered indiscriminately.
The utter dearth of dustbins in Shillong makes any venture looking to make the city cleaner, a task more daunting than it already is.
And Shillong can undoubtedly do better when it comes to dustbins.
Let’s pray this campaign doesn’t join the ranks of ‘one-day wonders,’ like many other initiatives which just perhaps exist only in registers.