Last few weeks, the residents of Sushant Lok were in troubled waters as Nature shed its leaves perpetually, which in turn get accumulated under the trees and then carried on to the streets with the wind. The MCG employees would broom them in large heaps around the corners from where they would scatter around the block in a jiffy! No one took the responsibility of the poor dry leaves, the MCG employees would rather bring big heaps and deposit them in the parks of Sushant Lok. The garbage company refuses to dispose them off, so people requested the composting site in the Community Centre to do something with them, but to no avail.
The residents grew restless when the heap of the dry leaves covered almost half of their automobiles and threatened the security of the community. Everyone was running amok, nothing more than the dry leaves, to find a solution but silence was all they received! The residents started applying the different methods to get rid of the huge piles of leaves!
On 18th of this month, when a resident was returning from her work, she saw a big heap of leaves on fire in a vacant plot, right in front of an NGO run school, now we don’t know whether the fire started by an accident, of a throw away beedi or was put deliberately to get rid of the pile of leaves, but like a good citizen of the country, she took the picture and posted on different WAPP groups. Someone immediately called for the fire brigade as the fire was going out of control. A big hullaballoo ensued after that.
If the authorities do their assigned jobs properly, this would not happen, everyone knows the outcome of the beginning of the summer, and the deciduous trees will shed their leaves to sustain the water level, then why the safety measures are not implied beforehand that would have saved the residents so much of the worries and someone could still quote the poet, Emily Bronte, “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
by Meena Wanchu (C 2591, 9911640141)
