It is too dangerous for India if it becomes No.1 in manufacturing. Everyone is looking at just one side about employment and FDI in our country. How we are going to handle the e-waste and machine waste. Even countries like US,Canada, Germany are struggling with their industrial production wastes and its is piling up. Just think about the following: 1) all old automobiles (cars/bikes/vans) which has gone absolete. 2) all e-waste like computers, keyboards, mouse, chips, mobile phones, accessories that has gone obsolete 3) plastics such as switches, boxes, ECBs, etc, that cannot be recycled 4)various other plastics that has been used in many many industries on a daily basis and the garbage is lying on the outskirt of every city in heaps and bounds. There are so many that I can list that India have not created any regulation about how to dispose/manage/recycle this waste. No "Scientist" has ever got an idea. INDIA HAS BECOME A DUMPING GROUND and with our terrible people who does not have even 1% of civic sense throwing everything everywhere. INDIA IS ON THE PATH BECOMING A MESS. Nobody is realizing this truth. Look at both sides of a coin. Thanks.
RE:Waste Management
by Madhusudhan N.R. on Jun 24, 2008 12:22 PM Permalink
Good point, Srini. India has already become a garbage dump. You see filth wherever our great populace has even 0.1% presence. With slack, or non-existant regulations, its only going to become worse. In the last 30 years I have seen beautiful places in India absolutely destroyed by junk, filth and garbage. People have zero civic sense, whether they are illiterate or Ph.Ds. Peeing, shitting, spitting, throwing all kinds of things everywhere. We are a nation of filthiest people on earth. I have been to even African countries struggling with poverty, but nowhere have I seen filth to this extent...
RE:Waste Management
by A K on Jun 26, 2008 02:35 AM Permalink
Very well said Madhusudhan. I've been to Egypt it was 1000 times better in infrastructure and civic beauty as compared to India. I hope your healthy criticism opens the eyes of our politicans. I have seen slogans like Amchi Mumbai, Swach Mumbai but I can see only shit everywhere.
