Your class has undertaken a awareness campaign for swachch bharat . you often notice residents around your school dump garbage out on the street instead of giving to garbage collector. discuss with your patner what problems might occur due to this? what should be done to make them understand the importance of hygiene?
Answers
This is a prompt for the discussion part in ASL speaking. You can say the following lines or something similar in your discussion for the prompt:
Student A: Hey the entire nation is swept over by the Swach Bharat Abhiyan, and the residents of colonies around our school are still dumping garbage on streets like stone-age man!
Student B: Why do they do it? Do the garbage collectors not collect garbage there?
Student A: How can that be? Municipal Corporation has assigned garbage collection facility to each and every area in the city. This is because people of these colonies are careless and uninformed.
Student B: Well, we must do something. Otherwise serious health problems may be caused due to the throwing of garbage in the open. Stink, squalor, flies, etc can cause health issues to the residents.
Student A: We, the students can really a play a revolutionary role in checking this unhygienic menace and nuisance of throwing garbage in open.
Student B: Yes, the first and foremost measure we need to take is we ourselves must never ever throw garbage in the open. If we have the bad habit of flinging polythene carry-bags full of garbage in streets, how can we ask others not to throw it; we must desist doing it.
Student A: You are right. I confess, I myself have thrown garbage
in streets at times!
Student B: The second most important step to be taken is, we must not let any
of our family members do this irresponsible act. There is almost a student in
each family; if each student shoulders the responsibility of not letting his or
her family members indulge in this reckless act of dumping garbage in the open,
the problem will be controlled automatically.
Student A: I agree with you completely.
Student B: The third very important measure to this problem could be going to
those colonies where plots are being used as dumping grounds and reason
with people. We can form teams and carrying posters depicting negative effects
of garbage on the people living in the surroundings and general environment, we
can hold seminars or street plays to sensitize people to myriad health related
problems caused by the garbage mounds.
Student A: The fourth important initiative that we can take is appeal to the
Mayor of the Municipal Corporation to make arrangements for proper garbage
disposal and clearing in the colonies. These measures put into practice,
individually or collectively can really make a difference.
Student B: I am feeling really excited. Let's get cracking. I feel if we need
faster results, we can also take media's help also, can't we?
Student A: Sure we can! Let's call some of our friends, who can be a part of
our campaign team. Media, we will decide later.
Follow up questions and answers:
a.What role can your school …? How could she/he…?
Answer: The school can play a very crucial role. The school can send a team of teachers and students to make the people aware of the hazards of throwing garbage in the open.
b. How easy/difficult do you think it would be to…? Why?
Answer: It will be quite a difficult task. People have their own deeply-ingrained beliefs which are hard to change. We will really have to work quite hard.
c. If you could involve…what would you suggest?
Answer: We would really love to involve the head/president of the area in our campaign.
d. What if the resident refuse…?
Answer: If the residents refuse, we will have to take the Mayor’s help.
WHAT PROBLEM MIGHT OCCUR DUE TO SWACH BHARAT ABHIYAN
The most annoying problem a Swach Bharat Abhiyan volunteer or worker will feel is people's cold response to their efforts. They won't cooperate with them; they will be indifferent to the cleanliness drive; they will continue with their old littering habits; and some of them will be rude to them. Other problem that may arise is the lukewarm attitude of the other volunteers and workers. They will work enthusiastically for a few days, then they will also resort to their old indifference to cleanliness.
Akash: I am good, how are you?
Arsh: I am good too, actually I wanted to discuss with you the issue of unhygienic conditions around.
Akash: Yes, what about it?
Arsh: You see people are throwing garbage away and not looking for garbage bins for throwing the garbage.
Akash: Yes, I noticed this too, this is such an unhealthy approach.
Arsh: Yes, so what do you suggest, what should we do?
Akash: I think we should plan something which would spread awareness emphasizing on the cleanliness and hygienic conditions.
Arsh: Yes, I think we should start off with distributing pamphlets with the details how the garbage should be dumped and where the garbage bins are installed so that people should know where to throw the garbage away.
Akash: Yes, that is a good plan, and we should also talk to the NGO's to help us execute this plan.
Arsh: Exactly, this is what I thought too.
Akash: And we should also write to the higher authorities for penalizing people who are throwing the garbage away.
Arsh: Yes that is a good approach too we should go tomorrow for all that we planned.
Akash: Great, see you tomorrow