Municipal Authorities Come Up With 'Return Gift' For Homes That Dump Garbage On The Roads
In order to teach some of these people a lesson, the coastal city of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh decided that it will not take it anymore and has come up with the perfect way to punish the ones who violate the rules.
Not littering public places is something we seem to have a hard time understanding, and basic civic sense almost never seems to prevail. People throw garbage everywhere they go, even outside their own homes and think it is okay.
News flash: It's not!
While a few understand that this is not the way to live, majority think as long as it is not inside their homes, it's not their job to clean it up.
In order to teach some of these people a lesson, the coastal city of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh has come up with the perfect way to punish the ones who violate the rules.
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Requesting citizens to hand over the segregated waste to sanitary staff. Such incidents will lead to formation of Garbage Vulnerable Point
¡ª Kakinada Municipal Corporation (@kakinada_KMC) November 8, 2020
If you have any issues regarding sanitation please contact our Toll-Free Number 18004250325 #ReturnGift @umasudhir @ndtv @SwachhBharatGov pic.twitter.com/brSu1oydeE
The city authorities came up with the 'Return Gift' initiative. In it, a household that dumps the garbage on the road instead of handing it to the assigned sanitary workers, are given back the same at their doorstep. The purpose of this practice was to make such violators realize their mistake, so they do not repeat it again.
Appealing to all the citizen's to consider this #ReturnGift initiative positively to show gratitude to the sanitary workers and other fellow citizens who are cooperating with the Corporation@sudhakarudumula @umasudhir@ndtv @TOIIndiaNews @BDUTT@sardesairajdeep @ravishndtv
¡ª Kakinada Municipal Corporation (@kakinada_KMC) November 7, 2020
Kakinada Municipal Corporation's commissioner Swapnil Dinkar Pundkar, was the brain behind this initiative. The city authority had employed around 900 sanitary workers to collect garbage from homes. Due to many not complying with the rules even after many awareness drives, Pundkar had to resort to this.
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KMC has started an initiative of Return Gift by which the garbage will be given back to the citizens who are not giving it to the sanitary workers and instead littering on roads and in drains. #ReturnGift@SwachhBharatGov @Secretary_MoHUA @SBMGAP @AndhraPradeshCM @SwachSurvekshan pic.twitter.com/RQAyh3Ivg0
¡ª Kakinada Municipal Corporation (@kakinada_KMC) November 7, 2020
Speaking to the Times of India, he also spoke about what his plans ahead. He said, "I am planning to make Kakinada dumper bins free as people are not placing the garbage in them as they are big. We are trying to bring in about 100 tippers to replace pushcarts which are now being used to carry garbage."
