The wheel has come full circle. Sanjit Rodrigues, who as commissioner of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) had initiated the chaka chak campaign during the tenure of Manohar Parrikar as the chief minister, is back as the boss man at the CCP. I remember being present at an interaction with leading citizens on eliciting if not enthusing citizens, or rather residents, of Panaji to cooperate in solving the problem of garbage disposal, which had assumed threatening proportions then as now. Sanjit very eloquently stressed that without the cooperation of the residents, the problem of garbage could not be solved. It is very simple. Garbage did not come out of thin air. It is the citizen or the resident and the families living in Panaji who generate garbage. So much so, they have an obligation to not only support but actively participate in solving the literally mounting problem of garbage disposal. It was in the interest of residents to actively participate in garbage disposal because if garbage accumulates, it is them and their children and their grandchildren who will be vulnerable to the entire range of diseases, ranging from malaria to filaria to dengue to gastroenteritis.
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