LOCATION - Sinhagad Road; as you take a left to to Dattawadi from Sinhagad Main Road, there is another left turn into a slum just some few meters before.[05/09/2010]
This patch of land has remained conveniently ignored for years now. Another factor is that it's well hidden, naturally. A maximum 50 meters in length, it is a strip of land nobody would want to cross.
I have been regretfully crossing this area everyday on my way to work. 95% people take the alternative main road and increase to traffic there.
There is a stray dog almost every 2 feet. The public/government dustbin lies a distance of 10 feet from the houses and there are two such dustbins. Youngsters put up chairs and sit amongst all this garbage. The entire strip of land stinks.
I asked one of the women there and also a youngster walking by whether the dustbins are emptied regularly. Both of them confirmed what I knew, the dustbins lie like that for weeks, sometimes months.
This post has been sent in by Neha Joshi [A BIG THANK YOU NEHA!!]
I have been regretfully crossing this area everyday on my way to work. 95% people take the alternative main road and increase to traffic there.
There is a stray dog almost every 2 feet. The public/government dustbin lies a distance of 10 feet from the houses and there are two such dustbins. Youngsters put up chairs and sit amongst all this garbage. The entire strip of land stinks.
I asked one of the women there and also a youngster walking by whether the dustbins are emptied regularly. Both of them confirmed what I knew, the dustbins lie like that for weeks, sometimes months.
This post has been sent in by Neha Joshi [A BIG THANK YOU NEHA!!]
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Garbage zones like these are just taken for granted in a lot of places in our country.... I wonder if ppl vehemently began protesting, whether that would make a differance. We just seem to be used to these sites and I think that makes us think that we don't really need to have a problem because it's 'normal in India' ..stuff like that.
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