AHMEDABAD: On Thursday morning, a scooterist stopped by the Kharicut canal on the Isanpur-Ghodasar canal crossing, pulled out a plastic bag filled with rubbish and threw it into the canal.
This unlucky man’s offence came just when AMC’s director of solid waste control, Harshad Solanki, used to be on his morning rounds.
Solanki stopped the man just as he used to be about to zoom off and asked why he threw the garbage bag into the canal. The man shouted again, “Who are you to invite?”
The next 25 minutes changed into a public spectacle. “Get into the canal, pick out up your garbage and put it within the bin equipped right here, right now,” Solanki insisted.
He then gave the litterbug three options — move to prison for six months, pay a Rs five,000 superb or get into the canal and retrieve the plastic bag. As drive from the general public grew, the man descended into the canal with help from a sanitation employee, walked thru ankle-deep sewage within the canal and picked up the garbage bag. Solanki fumed when the offender offered the sanitation employee a Rs 200 bribe to climb into the canal to pick out up the garbage on behalf of him. Solanki compelled the offender to get down into the canal, guided by the sanitation employee, and pick out up the bag.
“We removed 30,000 tonnes of waste from the canal and spent crores on men, labour and machines. It hurts when electorate don’t pay any heed to those efforts,” says Solanki.
This unlucky man’s offence came just when AMC’s director of solid waste control, Harshad Solanki, used to be on his morning rounds.
Solanki stopped the man just as he used to be about to zoom off and asked why he threw the garbage bag into the canal. The man shouted again, “Who are you to invite?”
The next 25 minutes changed into a public spectacle. “Get into the canal, pick out up your garbage and put it within the bin equipped right here, right now,” Solanki insisted.
He then gave the litterbug three options — move to prison for six months, pay a Rs five,000 superb or get into the canal and retrieve the plastic bag. As drive from the general public grew, the man descended into the canal with help from a sanitation employee, walked thru ankle-deep sewage within the canal and picked up the garbage bag. Solanki fumed when the offender offered the sanitation employee a Rs 200 bribe to climb into the canal to pick out up the garbage on behalf of him. Solanki compelled the offender to get down into the canal, guided by the sanitation employee, and pick out up the bag.
“We removed 30,000 tonnes of waste from the canal and spent crores on men, labour and machines. It hurts when electorate don’t pay any heed to those efforts,” says Solanki.
Man picks up garbage he threw into Kharicut canal
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May 25, 2018
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