Beyond the dirt – where else we can reach

There are lots of buzz around on ‘Clean India’ campaign and it looks like we however need to get up at this moment to make clean our home, street, road and country. Anyhow, the main concern over here is, make it clean India understanding individual responsibility and contribution toward this campaign, at least. It is better late than never, as we know face is the index of the mind, thus cleanliness shows an individual status to country status.

What we learnt in these days is horrible due to unclean habit and atmosphere which affected overall nature cycle and destroyed many natural resources. Where are those birds and its quantity that we used to see couple of decades ago? Due to unclean, impure, contaminated, dirty, infected, grimy, polluted and unhygienic habit and its atmosphere, we bear many losses which are unaccountable. Disease spread in such a way that there won’t have any medicine except anti-biotic as temporary solution for it. What else?

This campaign would like to wake up those who are not ready to get up on time or not really interested toward clean atmosphere, this is especially for those who are not ready keep clean surrounding at home first. Other than individual contribution, team work plays very important role on everything, only discussion and performance matters. As said, team work means ‘less me and more we’ and team work means dream work. What we do in our team work is (there is saying) as below which failed in everything rather success.

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. 

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. 

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. 

Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. 

Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. 

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done it.

The real story goes like that. I think people (except few) don’t take personal responsibility for general success on social services because they want others to do the work for them. To get work done and success on my effort (no personal or self boast over here), I tried to start to clean Bathroom at home which is very small, this one also done due to family member ill at home. However, co-incidence would work sometime while such (Clean) campaign is going on altogether. The next one is, beginning of cleaning home and nearby atmosphere though there are many commercial items help to do for cleaning task but we need little effort to keep clean surrounding which could help to avoid various diseases and threats.

The next one is, I was going on nearby street where I observed that sometime garbage cleaning and sometime not from the authority. Here, one is authority shall do it and if they fail to do for any unknown reason then we shall request and remind them to do so in a right manner. You can see the below photos where once the trash / junk was huge, only one initiative and step from me (common people) to nearest Municipality helps to clean garbage regularly. We will go with Banega Swachh India and its campaign.

This article is written for Clean India campaign on Swachh India from IndiBlogger.

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Ab Mai Bolega - My Voice to Clean India campaign

I remember four things whenever I read or hear about ‘clean’ topic. One is, almost every religion says neat and clean is very important beside our routine practice, the second one is Singapore and my visit over there during Apr 2001, the third one is Saudi Arabian Airlines Catering unit in Riyadh and the fourth one is Tamil veteran actor Kamala Hasan.

What does religion says about Clean:

I can say no religion forget to says about clean, as clean is half Imaan (belief) and the rest half belief is individual soul’s choice toward almighty. I feel sad myself also that we are not following our own basic principle on this, fully or partially.

What does Singapore says about Clean:

I remember one incident while one evening walking on the Orchard road in Singapore in April 2001 (a decade ago that too), I once spitted aside on walking over there and immediately I afraid and remember the country’s different strict rule and disciplinary action compare with back home, though I was safe over there. As you may know that making bad atmosphere or creating pollution in Singapore is against their law and strict disciplinary action will be taken for the concern. So, each human being carry their responsibility set by the nation thus they are in a good atmosphere including neat and clean surrounding.

What does Saudia Airlines Catering Riyadh unit says for clean:

Though it is a five star hotel level unit, thus it is normal that one can find neat and clean nearby. That is not the surprise here, the astonishing thing is the one which this unit create and practice everyone to be neat and clean beside some disciplinary measure when required. One example is, if you have a long hair or good hair style and working in Admin than Food production area which is far located, still Hygiene Inspector will roam, monitor, catch and warn you first to cut the hair (if so) as per company policy, if fail to do so then disciplinary action would be taken. 

As usual, food production area will have so many rules for handling food that can be found herein India’s five star or three star hotels too and forget this one in local hotels. Beside this, the Managers and above posts (mostly Saudi citizens) of each department will monitor for neat and cleanliness in their respective area, they will handle alone some cleaning task in the office premises and make changes the office atmosphere often as simple look and nice decoration.

What Kamala Hasan says for Clean topic:

I don’t know whether you are aware or not about actor Kamala Hasan and his discipline, India’s PM is taking clean initiative now but this veteran actor is talking and taking ‘clean’ initiative since few decades. He always used to give some hint or message or a song or even a film for only ‘clean’ topic.

So, when an actor can take an initiative for a long term on ‘clean’ India with social motivation, why individual shall not take an initiative on this, which is every citizen’s responsible too. We have 24 hours a day; we spend almost 24 hours a day in every other task, why shall not we spend at least half an hour to one hour just to keep cleaning in domestic and nearby area or outside, as responsible. 

Note: Starting from now, I will try to clean my home first and nearby area next.

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