Why are Indian cities dirty?

Question

Be it Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, or any city in India, all we find is garbage being littered here and there. Also, we find people spitting and urinating wherever they want to, and this causes stench.

In other countries like USA, Britain, Japan etc, people cant dare to do so, as they would be caught and fined more often than not for following such malpractices. Not just that, recently even Singapore and Dubai have implemented these rules. So, is it the people living here who lack civic senses, or is it the Governing administration, who are unable to check these malpractices.

Answer 1

in india,the people dont care about cleanliness as much as forigners do.take ourselves 4 example,when we r too lazy 2 walk up 2 thw dustbins,we just throw them on the streets.on the other hand v dont have many sufficient dustbins on roadsides and other placeseven if dustbins are plced,they r soon broken or vandalised.the government lacks planning and implementation.
and v r not fined 4 littering as in other countries.so,ultimately,the people's attitude towards cleanliness and the government are to be blamed 4 it.

Answer 2

Who says all cities, colleges, streets everywhere that's grimy, some old areas of everywhere is grimy in any area of the globe. we are arising united states of america with a million.a million billion inhabitants, each little thing can't be **** & span, except each physique decrease down on inhabitants, be sure cleanliness, particularly of blaming the administrative. Indian financial equipment will improve on condition that each kinfolk has few & no longer too many mouths to feed, the placement could be sparkling, training, outfits & wellbeing care might improve, water, ability scarcity & shelter project could nicely be solved.

Answer 3

It is a bit of both. Extreme carelessness on the part of the government and a "dont-give-a-damn" attitude of the people. I lived in a while in the Philippines and found the people take great care about their personal as well as public hygiene and cleanliness. The government there is as ineffective as the ones here, but the people do make a difference and so can we.

Answer 4

Its Indian culture. Indians in other country behave similarly. Chech out Little India in Singapore etc

Answer 5

firstly..dont compare india and other countries
and maybe people like u see things littered on the ground and dont pick it up or throw other things there
and yes it is about the peoples mentality and to an extent the govt. is sleeping..all v have 2 keep in mind is that we r not and will not be the people mentioned above..

Answer 6

Look anywhere on the world if a country is being invaded and if that country is not belonging to the western civilisation suffering from the same kind of problems.After Brits ruled India and took everything culturally they have ,nothing left behind.Brits did the same thing to Iraq,all arabia .Well we have other examples though like Australia ,same nation English men stepped on those ground but hey they managed to convert them and now they are Christian and one of the richest countries all around the world.
So what I believe it is all related with being a christian country ,and money.If the country is not one of them ,then their goverments are already being elected by the big western capitalism ,they are all being corrupted so those poor people can work to death for $10 bucks a month.So that we can buy cheap chinese and indian stuff at Wal-mart or shop nice wood carvings of india all hand made at hobbyloby stores.They have to live in junk so we can live in luxury.Read California based writer Ursula k.Le Guin's books.

Answer 7

There are deep reasons for that as described in this article:
http://ahamot.org/en/why-do-indians-litter-so-much/ :
1. In India a culture of pottery has flourished for thousands of year: totally ecological cups — you drink from it, you throw it under your feet, it turns to dust. Disposable tableware has turned into plastic, but the culture and habits do remain. The Indian government, realizing the problem has even rushed to encourage manufacturers of traditional pottery to fight plastic, but it doesn’t help;

2. until recently quite rural, or associated with family farming culture of life – of which the cow is an integral part. Everything that the cow poops out is natural (and, ideally, quickly collect and stuck at the walls of houses to dry in the sun to become fuel used, warm up the house in winter (in the north) and cool it down in summer. And Hindu doesn’t care that all these processes happen in the heart of Delhi or Varanasi under the feet of men and women walking by. Everything is OK;

3. “pantheist’ perception of the world – everything is natural, everything is either clean or dirty. Dirty is a foreigner, who doesn’t wash his ***, but a Hindu who has taken his morning asnan, has a tilak and has recited his daily mantra, stepping into a pile of cowdung barefooted is not. The division of the world into “pure – impure” is not like in the West. It exists not in the plane of bakteriology, household garbage or any other, but in the plane of religious dualism of “sacred – profane”;

Answer 8

Viju
Indians R impartial, not only cities, but even villages R equally dirty.
Thank our socalled political rulers for the mess.

Answer 9

INDIA ARE LAZY! NO RESPECT!

Answer 10

wrong,
see ugly americans what did in india!