{"id":183,"date":"2018-04-19T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/why-our-neighbourhoodlocalities-are\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T06:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T00:53:37","slug":"why-our-neighbourhoodlocalities-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/why-our-neighbourhoodlocalities-are\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD\/LOCALITIES are DIRTY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\nDuring the last week, every morning, I took some time out at the start of the day,to write six brief articles sharing therein my experiences\/views about the possible ways a city\/locality could be maintained in a better manner,As we all know, there is huge scope of improvement in having better designed,constructed, maintained ,infrastructure around our houses\/offices\/markets. There in my` pieces` I also exhorted the readers, to as well , share their experiences &amp; make small groups in their own neighbourhood to take up the matter also with the concerned officials of the local authorities,utility companies &amp; the members of the community to plug the deficiencies &amp; also to render help in supervising small activities like the state of garbage management, footpaths &amp; road repairs,tending of green spaces\/trees, reporting about encroachment in public spaces which were causing big obstructions in the movement of shoppers\/walkers et al.<\/p>\n<p>I sent these articles to social media &amp; to some of my known contacts, who I felt, were quite active in various civic issues &amp; had been discussing vociferously about the sad state of civic affairs &amp; the inefficiency of the civic officials &amp; I felt had zeal to bring about change by contributing their mite too.<\/p>\n<p>My only purpose of doing this morning `exercise` was to contribute in whatever little way in improving our neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Well,to share with you, very encouraging &amp; positive responses were received from a few but most have stayed away from any responses\/suggestions?!<\/p>\n<p>That is a proof enough to INDICATE WHY OUR LOCALITIES,MARKETS,SHOPPING MALLS, PARKS, FOOTPATHS,ROADS are in the state, we all find these in, day in day out &amp; all keep ruing about the same.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nFOOD for THOUGHT<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Vijay K. Saluja<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nDIRECTOR<br \/>\nGiraffe Heroes India<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.giraffe.org\/global\/india\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.giraffe.org\/global\/india<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the last week, every morning, I took some time out at the start of the day,to write six brief articles sharing therein my experiences\/views about the possible ways a city\/locality could be maintained in a better manner,As we all know, there is huge scope of improvement in having better designed,constructed, maintained ,infrastructure around our houses\/offices\/markets. There in my` pieces` I also exhorted the readers, to as well , share their experiences &amp; make small groups in their own neighbourhood to take up the matter also with the concerned officials of the local authorities,utility companies &amp; the members of the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,1],"tags":[1879,67,16],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-better-india","category-update","tag-update","tag-views","tag-vijay-k-saluja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52607,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/52607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}