Our Helpers

Hello Readers

Hope you all are fine.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, atleast don’t hurt them.

-Dalai Lama

It is summer season in India, and the mercury levels are raising to all time high even though it may be due to some mishaps of humans in cutting down trees and destroying natural ecological systems, there is also global warming which is going on from years and we are in the Anthropocene stage of civilization which simply means the present state of earth from the last 11,700 years of civilization.

Actually wanted to discuss on a more urbanized topic and related to keeping our surroundings clean.

Well I am sure everyone likes to maintain personal hygiene and also like our place of residence to be clean.

So now the next question would how to keep our surroundings clean this would include roads sewers parks lakes.

Well we are fortunate we are living in a society where we pay tax and the rest is taken care by the government to certain extent atleast but you think paying tax is the end of your responsibility?

I would say absolutely not we all are responsible for each other that is the government to the people and vice versa.

Moving on, we create lot of waste on a daily basis, which can be organic, chemical and material waste and there are dedicated people who risk out there at the cost of their lives for clearing the waste which has been created by us!

If you are thinking risking their life is like an exaggerated word to use, I think it is not because consider a person who sweats in all sorts of waste which may contain infection and viruses which cause diseases, and there are many well known cases where people are suffering from life-threating diseases.

I think we owe them a lot I agree we are paying garbage taxes but whatever we pay it truly take lot of determination to do such hard labor. We cannot bare the stench of garbage if a garbage trucks passes by imagine a man works like a full time job in the same truck cleaning all your dirt almost 24/7.

Majority of us if we are called to garbage cleaning drives in our corporates back out because the dignity of labour in you kicks in.

Then what about the people who are doing this on a daily basis!

I see women pushing garbage carts with their children who instead of enjoying their childhood help their moms. Even though i agree there large machiniesed machines used to clean big highways and main roads, it has to implmented in residential roads and complexes on a larger scale.

The next on the list are the sewage cleaners I consider them as my heroes and I also feel they are the real heroes just like soldiers they arrive at sewers which are blocked and remove the blockage on time!

It is sad to know there are many awards given to sports people, celebrities and so on where is the recognition to these real heroes in the sewers who are ready to help if you just make a phone call. Lastly the electrical line man and service engineers who risk their lives on high voltage electric cables, even if you say “it is their profession” I would reply “my friend it requires self-motivation and high level of service mindedness.”

The sad part is people do not understand this part in the society and abuse all these folks at times which are seriously immature and obtuse.

I also feel our garbage cleaners lack the latest tools and amenities, we cannot still provide them broom and also a fork gatherer and a plastic or a jute bag to collect all the garbage and not expect the sewage cleaners to go inside a sewer half naked and come back bathed with filth! I think this is an inhuman situation in this era modern science and technology.

In other countries we can see caddies been given to city hawkers to clean the swiftly and with comfort I think we need to bring in the same system here.

Better training is required so that garbage collectors can handle the waste in a more technical way we need to provide educational facilities to theory children and give a decent pay. I appreciate our honerable prime minister kick started the swatch bharath drive, which is step one I feel towards cleaner india and constrodium for a citizen to particpate in cleaning activities, its up to us from now who we want to take this from here.

Sweeping machine used in spain ; this should be replaced by the push carts and brooms in India.

Let us also spend some time in thinking about these sensitive issues and help our government and these grass level workmen with whatever we can.

Thanks for your time Good day!