Bilkul Sateek News
Gurugram/Delhi (Paridhi Dhasmana), 10 November.
BSN has received exclusive photo’s from Delhi and Gurugram’s Sectors 21, 22, and 23 — visuals that turn the government’s “cleanliness drive” narrative on its head. What the lens captures is not progress, but piles. Piles of garbage that have become part of the city’s landscape — stubborn, smelly, and shameful.
Early morning, between 7 and 8 am — when children head to school and elderly residents step out for fresh air — the photos show a disturbing routine. People navigating through heaps of filth. Stray dogs rummaging for food. Cows grazing straight off garbage mounds — a sight that’s not just unpleasant but perilous.
Because let’s be clear: cows feeding on plastic-laced waste isn’t just an animal welfare issue, it’s a public health ticking bomb. Plastic and toxic waste travel back into the food chain through milk and soil contamination — a slow, invisible revenge of our civic neglect. Add to it the stray dogs scavenging in the same garbage, posing potential risks of infection and disease transmission. And who walks past all this? Children with schoolbags and senior citizens with weak immunity.
Ironically, this is happening in the backdrop of the government’s “Sewa Pakhwada” — a nationwide cleanliness and service campaign meant to uphold Swachh Bharat’s ideals. But if this is “seva,” the footage stands as a grim audit report. The question writes itself: where does the cleanliness mission end — at the press release?
Even the Supreme Court has, on multiple occasions, directed strict measures for managing stray dogs and maintaining urban hygiene. Municipal authorities were urged to ensure systematic waste disposal and sterilization drives. Yet, what the camera captures on Delhi-Gurugram’s border looks like a scene frozen in bureaucratic neglect — an open-air landfill coexisting with daily life.
So, while the slogans of cleanliness echo in speeches, the streets tell another story — one that smells of apathy more than ambition. The visuals don’t lie. They demand accountability. Because if this is what “development” looks like, one must ask — are we cleaning the country, or just sweeping the truth under the rug? — and also where exactly is the taxpayer’s money is quietly disappearing.
