Why is India so filthy?

[Pakistani patriot]

Not those 'Indians' lol

 

[OTTOMAN]

Nice video. All South Asian states should take heed. I have seen the same problems in Pakistan as well (cities).

You haven't seen India before 9-11... haven't you?
Ask any one, who did!

 

[Genesis]

2) Our attitude- Our attitude of I DONT CARE is what keeps India so filthy. We 've a tendency to get used to something very easily and most of us're lazy enough to change our ways. But let me remind you we 're also quick to point fingers at others and blame somebody else, because that's the easiest thing to do.
Albeit I see a wave of change coming through,I hope it continues. And with the "swach Bharat" campaign that Modi has started, am sure India would become a cleaner place soon enough.I'm sanguine about it!

This is something I see with Indians, and a lot of ASEAN people, undeveloped, but refuse to believe it. You can't have first world mentality living in a third world country.

Poverty is the problem, how good are Indian slums, what would be the difference between clean or dirty slum? Not much, It can't be clean by definition almost.

If they don't even care how their homes are, why would they for places outside their home, in the park or on the street.

Some might say this is an attack on India or other undeveloped nation, but the fact of the matter remains, you would only want cleanness if you have a frame of reference, like your home.

20 years ago, Chinese apartment halls were dirty as hell, because the home was crap, as the home improved the whole apartment became clean, as the apartment became clean, the park around the apartment and roads became clean, as that became clean the whole city became clean.

It's not a coincidence, rich neighborhoods are clean while the hood is not.

The message here is, become developed first, and the rest will follow. On the one hand this could be a hard problem, on the other, if India can develop, this will almost be part of the package, and will require almost no effort at all.

 

[OrionHunter]

"World champions and undisputed leaders of public filth"!! Right!

Bangalore is called the 'Garden City' which it was a couple of decades ago. Now it's the crap capital of Karnataka with no gardens left which have morphed into dumping grounds for waste.

We are basically kaalus and thus it's imbedded in our DNA. It will take an act of God to change that!

 

[Gibbs]

Nice video. All South Asian states should take heed. I have seen the same problems in Pakistan as well (cities).

Thats a bit generalizing mate.. Not ALL South Asian nations are like that.. There are one or two with good civic sense

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Thats a bit generalizing mate.. Not ALL South Asian nations are like that.. There are one or two with good civic sense

Actually only one. Sri Lanka. Rest are third world 'hellholes'(sic).

 

[Gibbs]

"World champions and undisputed leaders of public filth"!! Right!

Bangalore is called the 'Garden City' which it was a couple of decades ago. Now it's the crap capital of Karnataka with no gardens left which have morphed into dumping grounds for waste.

We are basically kaalus and thus it's imbedded in our DNA. It will take an act of God to change that!

True.. Bangalore was a green city decades ago.. I think it's a case of unplanned over development..

Actually only one. Sri Lanka. Rest are third world 'hellholes'(sic).

Bhutan and Maldives as well.. Though i have not been to Bhutan i have heard about it's general cleanliness and pristine environment.. Maldives cannot afford to litter given the space restraints..

Main issue with India is mass population and ad hoc planning.. Also i have noticed the attitude of "it's not my problem somebody else will pick up the thrash".. Forgive me if i'm wrong but i think it's also due to the strict hierarchy system in society like caste and social classes.. Where roles are well defined in India

 

[SarthakGanguly]

True.. Bangalore was a green city decades ago.. I think it's a case of unplanned over development..



Bhutan and Maldives as well.. Though i have not been to Bhutan i have heard about it's general cleanliness and pristine environment.. Maldives cannot afford to litter given the space restraints..

Main issue with India is mass population and ad hoc planning.. Also i have noticed the attitude of "it's not my problem somebody else will pick up the thrash".. Forgive me if i'm wrong but i think it's also due to the strict hierarchy system in society like caste and social classes.. Where roles are well defined in India

Well, you are wrong there. The problem you quoted above(correctly) is all pervading and universal.

 

[Gibbs]

Well, you are wrong there. The problem you quoted above(correctly) is all pervading and universal.

Well i was talking in terms of civic sense or there in the lack of it due to class/caste system.. I did not suggest it does not exist elsewhere

 

[skynet]

Why this thread is made a featured thread ??

 

[Krate M]

Why this thread is made a featured thread ??

You are asking that after 6 months on PDF?

 

[SrNair]

That was an excellent video and the presenter was modest enough to hide his face while encouraging others to join his movement of "kaam chalu, mooh band".
Now the question, why is India so filthy???
I feel there 're 2 reasons for it:

1) Climate- Most of the Indian states get atleast 4-5 months of monsoon showers and because of its proximity to equator the temperature is around 30-35 in most of the cities, which by the way is an ideal temperature for bacteria to grow. So while you 'll see that the food stuff which remains intact for almost a week without being refrigerated in Denmark, the same food would rot within a day in India. Its the temperature that makes all the difference. You can apply the same logic to the obnoxious smell that comes from the garbage bins in India.

2) Our attitude- Our attitude of I DONT CARE is what keeps India so filthy. We 've a tendency to get used to something very easily and most of us're lazy enough to change our ways. But let me remind you we 're also quick to point fingers at others and blame somebody else, because that's the easiest thing to do.
Albeit I see a wave of change coming through,I hope it continues. And with the "swach Bharat" campaign that Modi has started, am sure India would become a cleaner place soon enough.I'm sanguine about it!



From my experience, yes thats very true.

Well said.
We Indians have a natural behaviour to criticise our govt to anything that is going on our country.In India laws are just a joke .Anyone can bend these laws with money and power.Our govt set up is not under control some alien people.They are our people and so they also will have that inherent lazy,unhygenic mentality.Even in the so called developed state you can see the people throwing hotel waste,house waste on road side.
At some area authorities are even forced to install CCTV Camera to control this stupidity.The very own mindest of Indians are amazing.They will keep fully discipline if they are West or ME nations both in road and also in house .But when these Indians will behave with a filthy attitude when they are in home .I mean in India .So actually they can keep decency when they are in foreign nations having strict law implementation.
So we should need effective punishment like that in our nation A chinese type system will
reduce this menace.

 

[waz]

Always the diplomat.

Oh and yeah that thread you closed yesterday, you banned 1 Pakistani and 1 Indian but there were at least 4-5 Indians versus that one Pakistani.

As most moderaters are, otherwise the board goes to hell.
I think the post is valid, having seen how our folk treat our cities.

I'm not sure why you have bought other business into this thread, there is a dedicated section for this i.e. discussing moderation issues. But I'll answer your query anyway.

That thread that was deleted by myself, the trolling was originally started by a Pakistani member, this was after a bomb attack in India. How would you feel if that happened on a Pakistani thread? As for the other Indians, they didn't sink to the depths of that the two I banned. I also let one Pakistani guy go, whose greatest contribution to the thread was talking about how he has Indians cleaning his toilet and so forth, and you know what, Indian members complained that he should not have been let go. You will never see the huge number of anti Pakistan posts I get rid of, including the banning of members who love to take the piss out the fatherland i.e. pure land and so forth.

Back to topic, it's a case of being attacked from both sides. Now by one of my own people. If you don't consider me as one of your own, apologies in advance.

I really didn't expect this post from you Mamba, I thought we had good ties.

 

[livingdead]

Sense of cleanliness infused in childhood is best way. If all scools have very clean toilets with teaching staff emphasizing on this aspect, child will develope a very good sense of hygiene for his entire life. You must have noticed that kids who are use to going in clean toilets actually refuse to use dirty ones or outside. I'm afraid wrong habbits once set are not easy to go as adults. Schools provide very good controlled environment for this habbit to develope. India might look into this as one of the solution.

I never thought about it. Very good point. BTW the filthy habit cuts across economic classes, being rich does not mean any less filthy.

 

[ranjeet]

I have worked on Swach Bharat Campaign and also worked in the MCD for a while. On a Macro level A person getting a tender for up keeping a neighborhood has to warm pockets of many officials and the amount he is left with is not sufficient to manage the designated kachra place. I worked for few projects and tried to get few others but it's not economical but things are improving ... now babus have to submit photos (of before and after) as evidence along with the report of how many places they have cleaned