SLRWA’s commendable step to clean the vacant plots in Sushant Lok C block was hailed by many as it provided a much cleaner atmosphere for the residents in general and spread a breath of fresh air in the surroundings. It was a mammoth of a job as these vacant plots had myriad types of garbage and were getting heaped up day by day. Some used these plots for parking space, some as the urinals and construction sites would use them to throw day’s debris there! Some smart cleaning staff would empty their waste bins there as no one sees so no complaints; without realizing that the heap would generate the rodents and pests that would crawl back to their clean homes. We are responsible for our surroundings!
The SLRWA cleaning committee needed JCBs and modern technical tools to clear these mounds of mess. Every day a few plots are cleaned and a new list appears but they are working relentlessly as President of SLRWA, Vishnu Khanna, promised the residents that no vacant plot will be left undone, all the garbage will be cleaned to give fresh lungs back to Sushant Lok C block.
Now the biggest task is to keep these vacant plots vacant and not get them filled with filth again. Some suggestions came forward -to ask the plot owners to build the boundary walls to ward off the miscreants who use them for the garbage bin, they could be barred with barbed wires to allow no entry or any other tactic that would keep these vacant plots clean. The best is to educate the passersby and neighbours that it would be beneficial to keep the surroundings clean as cleanliness is Godliness!
