As I was travelling in an auto from the Hospet station towards my accommodation it hit me hard….the town was neat and clean; no trash along the roadside. An eyesore from viewing city trash in my daily travels, it was now wide open in surprise. A small canal from the Tungabhadra river with a few children running alongside was clean again! No bad smell, no trash in the canal.
I derided myself – small town, easy to maintain; yet no one was obviously ‘maintaining’ it. Each household clears its front, deals with its trash and clearly, little or no need for any big maintenance plan. It was simple.
Can we maybe try that – not trash our own locality and in the long run we can also set an example.
