Singara chennai can be cleaner without Garbage Bins

The first thing which hits you every morning when you go out for a walk is the Singara Garbage Bin placed all over the localities of Chennai. As you walk past, you are in for a shock as human heads sprout out of it suddenly from nowhere!! The terminology of peaceful co-existence is well defined by the Bins as many stray dogs also show their heads and wag tails indicating their presence in the tiny world of Bins!!Walking becomes a jig-zaw puzzle for many as the garbage bins spread strange odours, compelling walkers to hold their breathe for a much longer time which in a way, helps physical fitness!! No need for special Pranayama!! The part 2 of the walking episode makes one feel if he is in any Gowshala?? Many cows are allowed to graze whatever they can find on their way and sometimes, you are shocked to see cows eating plastic sachets with left over foods! Imagine the kind and quality of Milk that we are drinking every day!! The system of garbage bins distributed and placed in every nook and corner of the streets is something very strange. In most of the metros, the system of people coming to the house to collect garbage and disposing the same is well in place. states like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkotta and Bangalore adopt this. There are no garbage bins on the streets and the city looks atleast neater to that extent!! The placement of garbage bins attracts street urchins, scavengers, dogs and cows all alike and the result is that the garbage is opened from the plastic bags and strewn all over the roads which pushes back Singara chennai by many steps in terms of cleanliness besides the strong stench that it gives out to the nearby houses. Chennai has the history of "garbage dumping" in front of the houses. The Corporation is struggling to maintain the beauty of chennai and converting the city into Singara Chennai. The first thing which poses challenge to the corporation is the Garbage Bins that are placed all over and is an eye-sore besides the problems that it gives. The Garbage Bin system is a success in the western world because:
1. there are no scavengers to hunt for treasure in the garbage.
2. there are no stray dogs patrolling the localities and earmarking their territories.
3. there is no market for second hand plastic waste which is the main factor for the street urchins to jump into the Bins to retrieve any plastic material even if it meant scatterring the garbage all over.

There is no system of monitoring by the officials of the corporation to ensure that the garbage disposal is rightly in place.The chennai corporation should adopt NO Garbage Bin mode and instead ensure that the garbage is retained by the household itself for handing it over to the corporation workers everydayin the morning. This will not only make the city cleaner and present it beautiful but also ensure that the garbage hunting trade is finished once for all. The stray dogs will be forced to limit their families too as they will find it hard to find easy food!

I am giving Food for thought!!
let us hope things change for better in the coming days!

Rajagopalan K S