Piling garbages at Khwairamband Keithel
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: January 17, 2013 -
Rotting garbage piled up along BT Road tells the story :: Pix - TSE
The piling garbages at Khwairamband Keithel, which is home to the unique and historic Nupi/Ima Keithel, tell many a story.
It not only exposes the inefficiency and state of ennui within the Government institutions but is also a damning statement on the mentality of the people.
Ceasework strike has become synonymous with the Imphal Municipal Council and herein lies the story of how the very concept and understanding of devolving power and responsibility to the grass root has fallen like a dud.
Not paid for 22 months, the employees of Imphal Municipal Council have been on a cease work strike since January 7 this year and this should be more than enough indication of how the Council has been run and managed all these years.
Off work for a little over a week and the rapidly rising piles of garbage at Khwairamband Keithel says something significant about the mentality of the people, a mentality which says that in all these years, a sense of belongingness has failed to take roots.
A free for all situation, where anybody, the shoppers and the very women vendors who occupy the market spaces and others, can litter the place at their will.
An inefficient Government institution and a mentality such as this is perhaps the perfect recipe to describe the chaos and filth that characterise Imphal.
Lack of civic sense can rest only on the foundation of selfishness. A thought current that there is nothing wrong in defiling and defacing public spaces and public properties.
Rest assured, the very set of people who do not think twice before littering Khwairamband Keithel would cry foul if anyone from the neighbourhood unwittingly dirty their courtyard.
A mentality which refuses to see and understand beyond the realm of one's private domain. Such a mindset explains the shrinking lanes and bylanes in Imphal.
Such a mindset should explain why all the drains are clogged and even a little more than a slight drizzle is enough to flood each and every locality.
The complete lack of belongingness to the place is mind boggling and defies logic. Khwairamband Keithel is much more than a commercial centre. The history and the culture of the land are deeply related to this place.
So much for our understanding and appreciation of our own history.
Herein lies the observation that the piling and rotting garbages at Khwairamband Keithel tell more than the story of a filthy and dirty commercial centre of Manipur.
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