Collective Actions and Mindset to Stop Littering of Roadside

Like the beautiful Helen’s quote which says “Alone we can do so little but together we can do so much”.I want readers to emphasize on the importance of united mindset and how it can change our course of common thinking for better generation of today and tomorrow .

It pains me to see the weak individuality mindset of selfishness that only emphasize on ‘my’s’ i.e my properties, my houses, my own children, my compound and my road from the main gate etc. So, we sweep, clean, beautify and sweat inside our own boundaries.

But, did you ever? I ask again ever? pick up a single piece of litter, a wrapper, or perhaps a sweet covers-outside of your boundaries with a pitiful and patriotic heart, that this public road is a ‘Road’ of my place, my locality, my homeland, my Nagaland and is an uncalled duty to keep it tidy and clean.

I bet, if you do than be proud because you are just ‘one man soldier’… among the lakhs of hypocrites citizens of Nagaland ,who feels really clean, after cleaning around their homes but dumped and threw litters,sweet covers,wrappers on the roadsides and public area’s without even a second thought.

It’s shameless that we are hopeless people, without any common civic senses.

We blamed the government thinking it’s their duties to maintain the public properties ,roads and facilities etc but a true patriotic call of collective love,respect, and concern at every heart is required and the need of an hour to stop this ‘Littering’.

Noting that no authorities will sweeping the roads or are given a salary to do so.

In this prospective, we the people should be the change. So, from the eldest citizen to a nursery student should be and must be- aware of this, by giving a collective response to stop this littering and make Nagaland roads more beautiful.

My points above maybe rather seemed cynical but ironically it’s a reality of the present condition.

For I have, personally visited my old dwelling places after nearly half a decade to see the same ‘Rum bum’covers lying unattended. It’s funny but it pains me alot, given the realization of why, people avoid our places nevertheless of our rich culture, biodiversity and potential .

Like ‘ugliness attracts ugliness’ and ‘beauty attracts beauty’ Nagaland has potential to be a real Switzerland of East. Just imagine a clean and beautiful road without even a single piece of plastic or litter and it’s impact that will have on a tourists or a visitor. For people often measures our civic sense and collectively unity ,by our public cleanliness and sanitation .It this point we must remember a small island in the far east called Japan, with whom we share physical similarities and mental potentials but they are known in the whole world for cleanliness and with high HDI (i.e increased longevity ,knowledge and income) but we are hundred year’s socially and culturally lacking behind, because their policy of development and advancement runs parallel with cleanliness and peaceful environment. But we Nagas are only filled with so called self pride and dignity, for eg. any uneducated and unemployed Naga will even refused to become a barber or a construction worker.It is this narrow mindsets that leads to nothingness but unemployment, divisions and chaos . To tackle and curb this own ironic downfall ,we should all wake up and start asking ourselves- what we can do for our state?? instead of complaining in own kitchens about unfairness .

Nagas have a long way to go and saluting the various youth leadership in villages of Rengmas and Khonoma area’s for paving and showing the ways of becoming Green Village, cleanest villages.

I as a humble Naga urge, pray and appeal to all conscience “Please stop littering of roadsides”

Make Nagaland more beautiful ‘for together we can do so much’.

Jingba Naga
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