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Civic sense
GO TO Lal Bagh after a weekend, you will find heaps of plastic bags, bottles and paper strewn on the lawns and on the roads. Enlightened citizens do request those littering to use the garbage bins provided at convenient locations all along. It's the `culture' of littering and spitting that has become almost compulsive right from a young age.
Take another example: smoking. Public gardens like Lal Bagh display No Smoking signs. Yet there are those who ignore them, unmindful of the threat of fines. Fortunately, even such people do listen to those who point out to them the fact that it's a no-smoking zone.
Now, the question is whether a citizen should be so civic conscious so as to go about `reforming' others. The same dilemma faces those who notice drivers violate one-way rules, jump signals, talk on cell phones while driving, carry more than one pillion rider. The list is endless. If we expect the traffic police to set things right then it would be a Herculean task given the fact that their number is small compared to the traffic violators. Citizens who care about the environment and expect some modicum of discipline should take upon themselves to alert the violators with a hope that attitudes change for the better.
D.B.N. Murthy
Jayanagar
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