[Music]
why should anyone pick it up this is
Mumbai let it be
Charlotte ahead we pay the sweepers
right so actually they should be the
ones to pick it up
hey is any housekeeping there no it’s
okay this is Mumbai may as well go
abroad it’s so much cleaner things will
be cleaned up out there this is a story
of our lives and this is the story of a
dear city every day this is just one my
prospect on a larger scale you see
across and what do we do we look around
we turn our faces we do not see the dirt
because we don’t want to write this puts
on the roads we have tainted glasses we
travel around and we don’t want to see
all this on August 29th on a more
magnified level is what we saw this
trench there are wet that is dry and
there is damp when you have heavy rings
and a high tide all of you experienced
like me what a log in dirty water mixed
with garbage filth but what did we hear
now if you see the pictures I went with
my friend from my house to what Allah we
cross the VP Road under the JJ flyover
one side is what you see dirt muck
waterlogged areas and we go a little
ahead
and there’s a place called dome green
many misconceptions people have of this
area see for yourselves
there is no water logging where this
doesn’t reflect on anything else except
our life status but what did we hear
online offline oh we have a Civic
Authority called as the Blenheim
Municipal Corporation BMC they are at
fault what did we do we allowed all this
muck to get choked on the drains on the
mouths of all the knowledge moreover we
turned in different words it we cursed
online we expect someone else to do we
did not see in those rains people
standing there people trying to get the
pump functioning in the heavy rains
while we played around in some cases
people open the manhole and what we got
what was a catastrophic
terrible human tragedy which could have
been avoided but you know what nobody
seems to be taking responsibility
we are so-called responsible citizens
often we want the sweeper to do our work
have you ever thought that the BMC has
only a thousand employees how many of us
alone in this city itself they are 18
million plus see the ratio between a
sweeper and the citizen this starts from
our house because we are eating we peel
we throw we fish we shell the prawns but
we mix it all we throw it and the nature
teaches us a lesson every year every
year 10 times more is back to the shore
but we somehow don’t seem to be learning
right outside this place you will see
people are going on the wrong side of
the road they ride it on the wrong
side of the road people pull down their
windows they open their plush car doors
and they spit across they can be even
your parents they can be your neighbors
but you don’t stop them
people litter they smoke no we will not
stop them why you are doing it one
doesn’t pause I don’t do it but someone
else is doing it what happens is as a
result in case at some point of time one
of you means with an accident well it is
personal why should people interfere
because you’ve been grown if you open
your mouth you will get into trouble
there will be some Lara the accident by
the way is your personal problem not
that of the society but at that time you
want everyone else to leave their work
and run to help you it is not their
personal problem at that time it’s yours
they are also groomed by their parents I
am Groot don’t open your mouth because
you will get into trouble and that time
you want everyone else to come to you
the other excuse we have is we are
responsible citizens why because we are
paying taxes sure have you asked your
parents how to evade taxes they’ll give
you some very good tips and they help
mind you so you can save taxes so you
really are a responsible citizen if you
are paying taxes I really think you need
to rethink on this yes the BMC has a
responsibility that it’s not supposed to
give us potholed roads that things are
clean that we get everyone who in their
work the nala are clean the cutters are
clean that is 50% of the responsibility
50% begins here you
mean we all do this we believe it is the
responsibility of the BMC to segregate
waste there was a deadline recently and
that has been delayed because people
don’t want to segregate waste they are
not supposed to we are supposed to have
dry and clean waste bins we are supposed
to make it separate and then they will
clear it if we are deliberately dirtying
something why should the sweeper do why
should the sweeper go out of the way to
clean something which is out of their
job but they are still doing that we
don’t want to focus on this the locality
is not a concern what is happen sir are
a house yes you live in very good houses
your porch outside is dirty is not your
concern all of you are so active on
social media are you all informed basic
information of your rights of the laws
do you know once upon a time we used to
have mud paths along the roads you know
why they were so that the rain water is
soaked today everything is flooded
because there’s no mud path we want
everything spic and span tiny tiny
compounds so from every society the
water flows into these very knowledge
and gutters which get choked over a
period of time yes that’s the
responsibility of the BMC to clean but
we also need to know we don’t want to
know that why we should not have trees
around trees lead to mosquitoes by the
way right no it is our basic low
standards of Hygiene we don’t want to
then we will blame the slum dwellers the
slums are causing all the dirt the
mosquitoes and the illnesses no they are
already living in that we had an
opportunity and we still have to make
our lives better but what have we done
we have further deteriorated they don’t
have the resource
that you have have you all ever been
into a police station do you know the
difference between an NC and an F IR
have you been to a war office you know
the difference between a war officer and
a corporator you elect the corporator
they are accountable to you make them
accountable become more informed become
more responsible if easy to want to go
pick up your bags and go abroad everyone
wants to do that to go to a better place
think global but you need to act local
on your locality that is an opportunity
in advance locality management have you
heard of a LMS well they are very
successful in Australia and New Zealand
when you go abroad you will neatly
follow the laws there no one breaks
because you’re penalized at the same
time you have to also get involved in
community living out there you’re forced
to do community work here it’s free of
choice you can and you have a brilliant
opportunity to do that Aran’s in Mumbai
started in the 90s this Lane called as
Joshi Lane and thought bok’nor exactly
like this on a daily basis the residents
would throw garbage they would litter
no one was bothered why we pay the
sweeper sweeper supposed to do that we
are supposed to litter they kept calling
the war officials and the war officials
did not pay heed
sometimes they do sometimes have other
work it’s not the only Lane for them
finally the residents took to cleaning
they picked up the brooms and they
cleaned their Lane after which the war
officials came that was the time when
first and foremost they had a direct
face-to-face interaction
everyone is not always corrupt everyone
is not always lazy or everyone is not
always inefficient you got to push them
to do it if you don’t take the first
responsibility there is when there is a
lack of responsibilities in many such
examples exist even today bandra itself
has 100 LMS are you all aware of it
there is a grievance redressal self
started by the Bandra AMM
what we need to distinguish is an
individual complaint is different from
an issue and a problem we are facing is
a civic issue and a civic problem it is
not an individual complaint in your area
how many of you know which are the open
spaces which are not open spaces which
are encroached upon how many of you know
that where is the dumping section in
your area in a lens you come in contact
with the officials of different
departments
there are many residents who are working
in Bandra a few years ago a couple of
ladies when there was a road
construction going on they went there
personally they picked up the samples
and they send it to a laboratory for
testing they got the results that it was
substandard material they send it to the
ward office and they had a interaction a
meeting with them and they said change
of contractors it happened you have to
take on the responsibility if at any
time you think that the ALM is very
difficult for you you can bring two
buildings together you can bring three
buildings together a whole Lane together
instead you can have a residence
Association have you all seen the oval
in the cross mine arms I am very proud
to say that I live in an area which is
close to a road in the 90s this pristine
beautiful plate
we’re people from all walks of lives
come together please see it was filled
with litter garbage they were
anti-social elements and the residents
were fed up they came together they
formed an association and finally the
state government gave them the
responsibility of maintenance of this
playground that we see today that time
it costs 1 crore plus and mind you 350
trucks were used to clear the debris and
the garbage from them today what you see
are beautiful to Gardens to playgrounds
where everyone can play and they are
green you all are young you all have
technology to disposal you are well
connected you’ll have parents from
different walks of life don’t use it to
cut queues have you all ever thought of
brainstorming for an ideal locality we
spend lakhs and crores on a dream house
the interiors with a special desire now
they don’t care what’s outside what’s
the use of these four walls which are so
good if your exterior is not something
that you should be happy with brainstorm
have you thought of it come together
what is your idea is an ideal
neighborhood ideal locality what is
possible what would you like to see in
there you need to get information you
need to know your rights you need to go
and file an RTI query how many of us
know that Mumbai City the BMC owns least
amount of land do you know who owns the
majority of individuals or entities who
owned land a private it’s not the BMC
the remaining of the various agencies of
the state and the central government and
still we will blame the BN see if there
is any encroachment or any DS
reservation so you need to find that out
you need to file in your query sit
together come up with ideas what would
you like to see in your environment in
your neighborhood share it with the
others a lens has a guideline
it’s a four-point process which is to do
with garbage waste and it is to do with
segregation of waste so go to your word
officers go to your words go and find
out attend one of those meetings share
your ideas you have a target of zero
waste that’s one but you can come up
with your own ideas like we just have
heard no you need to find out one thing
and that is its today today is the last
day and that’s how the city is going to
be ask yourselves what would you like to
do for your city I was born in Bombay
which is so beautiful I really like my
city and I will do anything to see that
the city is good and there are many like
me who are doing it more than me rather
we all have to just come together in my
lane there was a patch like this and my
neighbors were eyeing it for parking it
was left like this with garbage litter
then there was a sweeper who encroached
upon it
and people then went to the BMC and they
cleared it while some wanted to be
converted into a parking spot
my childhood friend asked me can I go to
the ward office and ask them to allow us
to convert it into a garden the BMC took
cognizance of that they allowed today we
have beautiful trees out there and it’s
a real
cool green patch it doesn’t take too
much it’s just the effort you have to
ask yourselves one question what would
you like to leave behind for the rest of
your lives
is this that we want to live in what do
you want to leave behind for your
children anything worse than this it
will be also remember one thing the
politicians and officials aren’t like
amongst us you just like us so while we
point fingers at them that they are
corrupt they are not efficient
we aren’t either but we also have good
results
they’ve been citizens candidates and
they’ve been good they’ve been effective
so if there are good there is something
that you need to tap you need to come
together to make a difference and that
only you can do it is now or never
challenges will be continued to have an
August 29 and I bet we will thank you
[Applause]
why should anyone pick it up this is
Mumbai let it be
Charlotte ahead we pay the sweepers
right so actually they should be the
ones to pick it up
hey is any housekeeping there no it’s
okay this is Mumbai may as well go
abroad it’s so much cleaner things will
be cleaned up out there this is a story
of our lives and this is the story of a
dear city every day this is just one my
prospect on a larger scale you see
across and what do we do we look around
we turn our faces we do not see the dirt
because we don’t want to write this puts
on the roads we have tainted glasses we
travel around and we don’t want to see
all this on August 29th on a more
magnified level is what we saw this
trench there are wet that is dry and
there is damp when you have heavy rings
and a high tide all of you experienced
like me what a log in dirty water mixed
with garbage filth but what did we hear
now if you see the pictures I went with
my friend from my house to what Allah we
cross the VP Road under the JJ flyover
one side is what you see dirt muck
waterlogged areas and we go a little
ahead
and there’s a place called dome green
many misconceptions people have of this
area see for yourselves
there is no water logging where this
doesn’t reflect on anything else except
our life status but what did we hear
online offline oh we have a Civic
Authority called as the Blenheim
Municipal Corporation BMC they are at
fault what did we do we allowed all this
muck to get choked on the drains on the
mouths of all the knowledge moreover we
turned in different words it we cursed
online we expect someone else to do we
did not see in those rains people
standing there people trying to get the
pump functioning in the heavy rains
while we played around in some cases
people open the manhole and what we got
what was a catastrophic
terrible human tragedy which could have
been avoided but you know what nobody
seems to be taking responsibility
we are so-called responsible citizens
often we want the sweeper to do our work
have you ever thought that the BMC has
only a thousand employees how many of us
alone in this city itself they are 18
million plus see the ratio between a
sweeper and the citizen this starts from
our house because we are eating we peel
we throw we fish we shell the prawns but
we mix it all we throw it and the nature
teaches us a lesson every year every
year 10 times more is back to the shore
but we somehow don’t seem to be learning
right outside this place you will see
people are going on the wrong side of
the road they ride it on the wrong
side of the road people pull down their
windows they open their plush car doors
and they spit across they can be even
your parents they can be your neighbors
but you don’t stop them
people litter they smoke no we will not
stop them why you are doing it one
doesn’t pause I don’t do it but someone
else is doing it what happens is as a
result in case at some point of time one
of you means with an accident well it is
personal why should people interfere
because you’ve been grown if you open
your mouth you will get into trouble
there will be some Lara the accident by
the way is your personal problem not
that of the society but at that time you
want everyone else to leave their work
and run to help you it is not their
personal problem at that time it’s yours
they are also groomed by their parents I
am Groot don’t open your mouth because
you will get into trouble and that time
you want everyone else to come to you
the other excuse we have is we are
responsible citizens why because we are
paying taxes sure have you asked your
parents how to evade taxes they’ll give
you some very good tips and they help
mind you so you can save taxes so you
really are a responsible citizen if you
are paying taxes I really think you need
to rethink on this yes the BMC has a
responsibility that it’s not supposed to
give us potholed roads that things are
clean that we get everyone who in their
work the nala are clean the cutters are
clean that is 50% of the responsibility
50% begins here you
mean we all do this we believe it is the
responsibility of the BMC to segregate
waste there was a deadline recently and
that has been delayed because people
don’t want to segregate waste they are
not supposed to we are supposed to have
dry and clean waste bins we are supposed
to make it separate and then they will
clear it if we are deliberately dirtying
something why should the sweeper do why
should the sweeper go out of the way to
clean something which is out of their
job but they are still doing that we
don’t want to focus on this the locality
is not a concern what is happen sir are
a house yes you live in very good houses
your porch outside is dirty is not your
concern all of you are so active on
social media are you all informed basic
information of your rights of the laws
do you know once upon a time we used to
have mud paths along the roads you know
why they were so that the rain water is
soaked today everything is flooded
because there’s no mud path we want
everything spic and span tiny tiny
compounds so from every society the
water flows into these very knowledge
and gutters which get choked over a
period of time yes that’s the
responsibility of the BMC to clean but
we also need to know we don’t want to
know that why we should not have trees
around trees lead to mosquitoes by the
way right no it is our basic low
standards of Hygiene we don’t want to
then we will blame the slum dwellers the
slums are causing all the dirt the
mosquitoes and the illnesses no they are
already living in that we had an
opportunity and we still have to make
our lives better but what have we done
we have further deteriorated they don’t
have the resource
that you have have you all ever been
into a police station do you know the
difference between an NC and an F IR
have you been to a war office you know
the difference between a war officer and
a corporator you elect the corporator
they are accountable to you make them
accountable become more informed become
more responsible if easy to want to go
pick up your bags and go abroad everyone
wants to do that to go to a better place
think global but you need to act local
on your locality that is an opportunity
in advance locality management have you
heard of a LMS well they are very
successful in Australia and New Zealand
when you go abroad you will neatly
follow the laws there no one breaks
because you’re penalized at the same
time you have to also get involved in
community living out there you’re forced
to do community work here it’s free of
choice you can and you have a brilliant
opportunity to do that Aran’s in Mumbai
started in the 90s this Lane called as
Joshi Lane and thought bok’nor exactly
like this on a daily basis the residents
would throw garbage they would litter
no one was bothered why we pay the
sweeper sweeper supposed to do that we
are supposed to litter they kept calling
the war officials and the war officials
did not pay heed
sometimes they do sometimes have other
work it’s not the only Lane for them
finally the residents took to cleaning
they picked up the brooms and they
cleaned their Lane after which the war
officials came that was the time when
first and foremost they had a direct
face-to-face interaction
everyone is not always corrupt everyone
is not always lazy or everyone is not
always inefficient you got to push them
to do it if you don’t take the first
responsibility there is when there is a
lack of responsibilities in many such
examples exist even today bandra itself
has 100 LMS are you all aware of it
there is a grievance redressal self
started by the Bandra AMM
what we need to distinguish is an
individual complaint is different from
an issue and a problem we are facing is
a civic issue and a civic problem it is
not an individual complaint in your area
how many of you know which are the open
spaces which are not open spaces which
are encroached upon how many of you know
that where is the dumping section in
your area in a lens you come in contact
with the officials of different
departments
there are many residents who are working
in Bandra a few years ago a couple of
ladies when there was a road
construction going on they went there
personally they picked up the samples
and they send it to a laboratory for
testing they got the results that it was
substandard material they send it to the
ward office and they had a interaction a
meeting with them and they said change
of contractors it happened you have to
take on the responsibility if at any
time you think that the ALM is very
difficult for you you can bring two
buildings together you can bring three
buildings together a whole Lane together
instead you can have a residence
Association have you all seen the oval
in the cross mine arms I am very proud
to say that I live in an area which is
close to a road in the 90s this pristine
beautiful plate
we’re people from all walks of lives
come together please see it was filled
with litter garbage they were
anti-social elements and the residents
were fed up they came together they
formed an association and finally the
state government gave them the
responsibility of maintenance of this
playground that we see today that time
it costs 1 crore plus and mind you 350
trucks were used to clear the debris and
the garbage from them today what you see
are beautiful to Gardens to playgrounds
where everyone can play and they are
green you all are young you all have
technology to disposal you are well
connected you’ll have parents from
different walks of life don’t use it to
cut queues have you all ever thought of
brainstorming for an ideal locality we
spend lakhs and crores on a dream house
the interiors with a special desire now
they don’t care what’s outside what’s
the use of these four walls which are so
good if your exterior is not something
that you should be happy with brainstorm
have you thought of it come together
what is your idea is an ideal
neighborhood ideal locality what is
possible what would you like to see in
there you need to get information you
need to know your rights you need to go
and file an RTI query how many of us
know that Mumbai City the BMC owns least
amount of land do you know who owns the
majority of individuals or entities who
owned land a private it’s not the BMC
the remaining of the various agencies of
the state and the central government and
still we will blame the BN see if there
is any encroachment or any DS
reservation so you need to find that out
you need to file in your query sit
together come up with ideas what would
you like to see in your environment in
your neighborhood share it with the
others a lens has a guideline
it’s a four-point process which is to do
with garbage waste and it is to do with
segregation of waste so go to your word
officers go to your words go and find
out attend one of those meetings share
your ideas you have a target of zero
waste that’s one but you can come up
with your own ideas like we just have
heard no you need to find out one thing
and that is its today today is the last
day and that’s how the city is going to
be ask yourselves what would you like to
do for your city I was born in Bombay
which is so beautiful I really like my
city and I will do anything to see that
the city is good and there are many like
me who are doing it more than me rather
we all have to just come together in my
lane there was a patch like this and my
neighbors were eyeing it for parking it
was left like this with garbage litter
then there was a sweeper who encroached
upon it
and people then went to the BMC and they
cleared it while some wanted to be
converted into a parking spot
my childhood friend asked me can I go to
the ward office and ask them to allow us
to convert it into a garden the BMC took
cognizance of that they allowed today we
have beautiful trees out there and it’s
a real
cool green patch it doesn’t take too
much it’s just the effort you have to
ask yourselves one question what would
you like to leave behind for the rest of
your lives
is this that we want to live in what do
you want to leave behind for your
children anything worse than this it
will be also remember one thing the
politicians and officials aren’t like
amongst us you just like us so while we
point fingers at them that they are
corrupt they are not efficient
we aren’t either but we also have good
results
they’ve been citizens candidates and
they’ve been good they’ve been effective
so if there are good there is something
that you need to tap you need to come
together to make a difference and that
only you can do it is now or never
challenges will be continued to have an
August 29 and I bet we will thank you
[Applause]
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