To keep Shillong clean…
If the municipal board’s garbage truck misses a single day of visit to any locality, the entire neighbourhood feels the unrest. They begin discussing how much garbage has pile up in their respective homes. The entire locality suddenly begins raising awareness on waste disposal management.
It goes without saying that we endure a great deal of pain just to keep our homes spick and span; but many of us don’t feel the same way about our surroundings.
Examples to illustrate how people disregard keeping their surroundings clean can be seen when there are different programmes in any part of the city.
The venue will always be strewn with disposable plates and glasses, plastic bottles, and other wastes. There will be assigned dustbins in most of the programmes but people’s tendency to litter seems to get the better of them.
This was corroborated after an event of a political party at the artificial turf at Polo, left in its aftermath food and wastes thrown on the pitch.
Shillongites value cleanliness and hygiene but somehow a wrong message is being sent with acts like this.
