Cleanliness campaign in Haridwar: Good start, but ground reality is different.
Shailendra Godiyal, Jagran Haridwar: The administration has been sounding the trumpet of 'Clean-Beautiful City Campaign' in Dharmanagari for 18 days. The tone of the campaign is right and so is the beginning. But the sincerity with which this campaign should have been implemented has not been implemented yet.
If we look at its surface picture, this campaign is still limited to the limited efforts of those select hands who started it. The cleanliness campaign has not yet reached the narrow streets and banks of the Ganga in the city.
The situation around Harki Paidi, the most sensitive and important area of Haridwar, also tells the 'incomplete truth' of the system. Piles of garbage and filth continue to persist on both sides of the wooden bridge connecting Kangra Ghat, Nai Ghat and Malviya Island.
The pile of empty packets of country liquor on the approach wall of the upper bridge of Kangra Ghat shows that there has been a huge laxity in monitoring and following the rules. Whereas this area of Harki Paidi falls in the dry area.
There is also a police post a few steps away. But the negligence is not limited to this, there is also a pile of filth in the watch tower of the water police near Harki Paidi.
Just a hundred meters away from the Crowd Control Room (CCR), there is a pile of garbage between the exit road of Deendayal Parking of Tourism Department and Aastha Path. The picture here tells that the pace of the campaign could not move beyond the main routes.
The impact of the Swachh Sundar campaign in the inner settlements, narrow streets and outer localities of the city is still negligible. However, District Magistrate Mayur Dixit is not unaware of the conditions.
While talking to Dainik Jagran, District Magistrate Mayur Dixit said that it is not possible to bring about change in 15 days or a month. Garbage has again been found scattered on the highway where he had conducted the cleanliness campaign a week ago.
It will take at least three months to make Haridwar clean and beautiful and to bring about changes in people's behaviour. People will be continuously connected with this campaign.
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