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KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 6Here is a simple truth regarding our environments: we can not control everything.
The more we consider it, the more appalled we may feel to discover that the important things we can not control are way trickier than what we may have formerly found out.
If a State can not perceptibly control such things that typically appear easily controllable, its not for an activist to take the baton, either.
If a smoker, for example, smokes inside a public WC, a CCTV is not split up to capture his unlawful act: basic norms dictate CCTVs need to not be installed inside the WCs.
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Probably, the cigarette smoker winds up smoking cigarettes even while peeing, or perhaps ...
you thought it.Hence, no one else, not even the State, however the smoker can control himself.Honking is now prohibited.
Those who seem to enjoy beeping - count more than 2 million motorcycles in the capital - are engaging in punishable acts.
A law forbiding such acts was enacted years earlier, and the State faced a hard test: silencing the horns that the riders were used to blowing for decades was not as easy as a WC smoker attempting to smoke while peeing or ...
So far, the State has patently failed the test, though for a factor relatively intelligible: it has no resources to recruit traffic control officers to pursue every cacophony.Hence, nobody however the rider can manage himself.Now, years later on, the Bagmati cleansing project seems to have actually taught us a lesson.
We seem to have actually left the river with her own karma and circulation with filth.In the first place, the entire effort of cleaning the river was tantamount to putting the horse prior to the cart.
Downstream cleaning was taken up on a weekly basis, while the upriver contamination advanced a day-to-day basis.Meanwhile, the river kept flowing, with murky waters during the monsoon and sewage waters otherwise.Upriver contamination quickly undid the downriver cleansing.Hence, primarily, nobody but the city residents, including the so-called sukumvasis, in the riparian areas can control the pollution.The above-cited social problems are just a tip of the iceberg.Expectedly, we are at a loss as to how to begin dealing with the sneakier portion of ice.The solution is not as sneaky, though.
The bad routines must be nipped in the bud: in the house and in schools.Nonetheless, the proverbial bud has some tough concerns: an instructor may spit khaini out of the classroom window, or a moms and dad may throw the junk food covers in her karesabari.Who can control the parents and instructors? No one but themselves, while kids and students might learn a lesson or more by way of observation
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This short article very first appeared/also appeared in https://thehimalayantimes.com
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