Stinking Cities..Rains bring more...

You must be welcoming rains with delight since the temperature went down during this week. The farmers are happy to get much needed water for their fields, while started to make huge investment in High Yeilding Seeds of various food and commercial crops, pesticides, fertilizers, etc. We in the cities tend to see rains not beyond our doors and windows. What meaning do we have for the rains except personal non-commercial interest? Its the city administration which has to tackle the rain into the drains or underground channels. Whilst, among these we should also know that, rains also brings back the stink emerging from the wastes, human night soil and sludge mixed with all the industrial and domestic lines. Our water bodies are filled with such a nightmerish water and wastes. Can you breath properly in the rains minus these wastes. Cities like, Surat, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, etc in Gujarat and other major metros of the country is stinking these days from the waste being decomposed with a mixure of hot and humid climatic changes. Stinks and humidity leaves most of the part of cities unbearable to venture out during the business hours (9.00 am to 7.00 pm). The rains and stinks would be apart only after 10-15 light showers days helping these wastes to move out of the city and pollute the regional environment. Smoke and hazardous gases rarely go away during the cloudy and humid seasons, it remain present in the lower strata of the atmosphere. This leads to more breathing problems in humans and plathora of dangers to plant and animal species.

Administration can at best clean the drains and leave the heap of waste away from the eyesight of the citizens, but its stink stays in the atmosphere of the city. This results the air we breath laden with heavy odur, bad tastes in mouth and infections in throat. What can be done? The cities would remain like that till we keep badly managing our solid and liquid wastes by treating them secondary to the city issues. Cities are happy to see creation of the infrastructure but are poor in operation and management of the systems.
Even the small town and large village settlements are also not left out from this modern life styles which are becoming 'chemical and plastic guzzling' economies. The outcome this phenomena is in wastes being generated, dumped all over the places and choking of the natural systems. Do we really care about city environment? At least not in the present cities of 21st century India.

Gujarat- Environmental Unconcerns

Come Environment Day June 5, we come to know about the environmental danger rivers in Gujarat faces, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Ahmedabad/Gujarat-is-numero-uno-in-river-pollution/articleshow/6013338.cms,

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Ahmedabad/Most-effluent-plants-in-state-are-totally-ineffective-Study/articleshow/6013340.cms
Serious! Nah the administration and people would soon forget the nature of these rivers and pollution enabling Vibrant Gujarat policies. We are not still on the verge of disasters. We need more 'Money' for the state. May be standing next to China, on the verge becoming industrial giant of India. This how Gujarat speaks these days!!

How to have commercial expoitation of rivers? Sabarmati is best example to make money in Vadodara, Surat, Bharuch etc. Also why have more township along Narmada Canal? We would invite more proposal soon. How to make money from the waste? We welcome all the refuse sellers in World to send us your garbage we bet to trade on these. Gujarat is happy to be emerging giant with little compromises, since people can affors to remain indoors, water is not being polluted in Bottles and Cans. Why bother about agriculture? Better we cultivate in other states and bring food nicely packed from the cold storages (of course our mega corporations are helping us to provide packaged deal).

Gujarat tends to inculcate using plastics (thats because we are highest producer of material) in the life styles of citizens. Harmless plastics does not choke up neck of fellow humans, how to stop poor animals in gulping poor plastics. Lest ! we do not have to produce grasses or save the forest. Yaah! Forests are better not to be utlized for the grasses, rather a township or eco -'logical' tourism can bring in more monetary help to always cash straped state. Wow! do we know how much more we can promote industry by just gulping power, minerals, wood, aerosols etc? We have to consume more inorder to stay ahead from other states. Why not discuss these Environmental Unconcerns with our collegues? Of course if you stop looking down at river you now call 'gutter' Ganga.

Violence of Naxals: Will it End?

Its with the deep pain I find myself helpless when we talk about the poor tribals and central India. The Naxals and Maoist engaged in war with Indian establishment has been violently attacking the civil population. Either they have lost the mandate and resorted to futile effort to conduct unsuccessful revolution. In case they tend to send a message to Government of India, this is clear, they do not want any intervention in their areas, neither they are ready to negotiate. The failure of security forces in tacking with the issues is due to lack of understanding of the forces regarding the nature and terrain of the areas and people. The civil population, what so ever little support recieved from the India is being taken away by such attacks which does not match with the ideals set in free India. We know this fact those who have got benefits of growth would not like these acts of violence and should law act strictly.

Naxals or Maoist by such attack is hampering the little support the tribals were recieving from the urban middle class in eastern India. The intellectuals who were ready to participate in discussion between the parties are no longer would be interested in such a dialogue which starts from discussion on innocent blood bath from both the sides. Who assumes that demands would be heard? A huge supression from the state is awaited which would harm the larger interest of tribals in central India. The mass migration of tribals would escalate given the rising violence in the districts affected. But where this would lead the tribal population in 21st century? Will it end?

War from Jungle to Streets in Naxal Areas

The todays attack on the moving train by the Naxal elements, is an direct assault on the establishment to listen to their demands. The confrontation between the state and naxals are far from direct. While the operations are carried out in Jungles the naxals are present in main stream sections of railways and communication lines. The killing and massacare by the naxals or the maoist are serious blow to the operational preparedness of the security agencies. This act requires serious condemnation of the naxals by one and all. This not the way revolution happens, there is wrong notion of hope which comes from sudden change in the system. We need to follow the middle path of dialogue with institutions and accept the democratic set up of the country. Yes! the rights of common people needs to be provided with in the constitutional frameworks.

Why should they kill the fellow citizens? Do they want everybody to support such killing? For the sake of poor tribals, peaseants, artisans and forest dwellers, please abstain from such acts. This is unaccebtable to any citizen of free India, we will not be able to answer our future generations incase these actions by violent groups are stopped. In close reaction, many innocent lives are lost in present attack on the railway facilities, and more would loose incase government forces retaliates. God! this not what we have been looking into in the name of egalitarian societies.

Use of force to engage the ideology are now thing of past and such tactics often backfires in the modern world. Maoist, is suited to this kind of inhuman actions would never be able to achieve their idea of society. Nothing comes without a cost, but this does not go well with the governments, security agencies are not prepared except some small success, they have failed the citizens of country during last six months.