Islamabad

Every morning I see tens of workers cleaning the streets of Islamabad but the sad part is when these people have a holiday on Sunday our streets are littered in one day. It says a lot about the general attitude of people. We think it is others duty to clean and we have a right to throw litter where ever we want to.

Anti-littering drive has started in Islamabad for celebrating the golden jubilee of our capital city.  CDA chairman, Imtiaz Inayat Elahi launched the campaign but the interesting part is that he participated in the activity in Super Market F-6. He even showed up in G-9 Markaz. He said “Our religion provides us the manifesto for the cleanliness as it is considered half of our faith. And this makes it our collective social responsibility to keep our houses, streets, fields, sectors and every part of the city clean. This is our responsibility to hand over a clean and green Islamabad to our next generations,” he added.

Every resident of the city should his/her part but our youth can play a very important role in this anti-litter drive. All the children of the age group from 10-18 years are on vacation at this time of the year. If their energies are channelized and they are organised in teams representing their sectors/ sub-sectors or streets then they can participate in such activities. Maintaining their our area clean will make this a lifetime habit for them. Incentives like extra marks or positions for best teams can give even better results. These teams can do other social work too and play sports among them. Sports are far better then spending time indoors watching TV or wasting time on computer.

What I have written maybe is a far fetched dream but for the time being Parents! please make sure your kids do not throw litter on the streets and out from the cars. For doing this  parents will have to be the practical models!

Islamabad the beautiful

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