DAILY NOTES
You are a correspondent of the
Daily newspaper in your city submits
report highlighting the pollution level, the
annuironmental problems faced by the low
atirgens and what initiatives that have a
taken by the local authorities and the citizen specially forcing on the the swachh Bharat campaign(100-150words)
Answers
Answer:
Swachh Bharat may have started on a high note, but cleaning up the country is serious business. Apart from investment, it calls for behavioural changes, expertise and scientific knowledge.
If Finance Minister Arun Jaitley chooses to, he could remind citizens about the need to keep the country clean every time they pay for any service. In his Budget proposals, he has taken a provision that will enable him to levy a 2% cess on service tax towards financing and promoting and financing Swachh Bharat initiatives. But a truly clean India is a lot deeper than merely sweeping our streets clean.
This is a good time to look at the magnitude of the problem and possible ways to clean up the country. A good place to start is an area far away from the country, a patch of garbage in the middle of the ocean near Hawaii. This swirling mass of plastic is about a 1,000 miles across and growing rapidly, with smaller and growing patches in the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. A research paper published in the journal 'Science' last month says plastic in the oceans will increase 10 times in the next decade if nothing is done about it.