[Delhi-EAN] Burning of Leaves
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Anil Nauriya
Nov 5, 2011, 10:45:38 AM11/5/11
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Apropos the messages... Ajay, I've been noticing burning of leaves in the morning opposite the school behind your house in New Friends Colony.
I spoke to the sweeper who looks after that stretch of road and he was aware of the orders. He said his problem is that once he makes the small piles of leaves, the vehicle which comes to collect them actually blows the leaves around and they spread everywhere again.
I told him he mustnt burn the leaves but find some other solution to the problem he mentioned. He promised to think about it and work on the issue. I dont want to complain against him as he appears positive and willing to change his ways.
However, if you are up and about early you could look into this matter. Alternatively, you might brief Brahmanand and Lakshmi -- and at some stage Napoleon --- about it.
Anil Nauriya
n Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:01 AM, ajay mahajan <ajayma...@gmail.com> wrote:
I spoke to the sweeper who looks after that stretch of road and he was aware of the orders. He said his problem is that once he makes the small piles of leaves, the vehicle which comes to collect them actually blows the leaves around and they spread everywhere again.
I told him he mustnt burn the leaves but find some other solution to the problem he mentioned. He promised to think about it and work on the issue. I dont want to complain against him as he appears positive and willing to change his ways.
However, if you are up and about early you could look into this matter. Alternatively, you might brief Brahmanand and Lakshmi -- and at some stage Napoleon --- about it.
Anil Nauriya
n Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:01 AM, ajay mahajan <ajayma...@gmail.com> wrote:
as i said before it is a great one liner... and yes... cld make a great poster....an early start to the next diwali... such msgg can make a difference...anadish, wld you like to explore, have a go... at such a way of sharing other issues that you deeply relate to.... like whats being done to our urban trees...Soil has been banned in DelhiIt must be always be airborneas DustIf you see it anywhere,Kick it upAnd don't leave any space for soil or ex-soil (dust) to settle...like open earth, grass, treesContaminate it with malba and concrete and then cover it...Just keep kicking blowing sweeping it UpAnd then wonder why there is so much dust and sootIf you feel the dust and smoke particles arent enoughIts the perfect season of leaf fallto heap lots of leaves and burnand yes plastic burns well...the fire must keep burning and the smoke too must risefestivities musnt endOn a different note:(Leaf burning is banned by court orders and govt orders and covered under EPA(in a particular section), and SDMs have been/are authorised to levy fines: CCF Sinha told me after i raised the issue recently... he said to contact the Env. Dept. Can some of us, Ushaji pl., take it up with Env dept. They cld issue Good effective newspaper ads.. with no.'s of who to complain to... and also write to the SDMs to take action. And to MCD etc to instruct their mali's and sweeping staff to desist from this practice or face fines and penalisation(these are the two biggest categories of regular leaf burners. In recent yrs, fires in neighbourhood garbage dumps have also become a regular feature in the two big leaf fall seasons of autumn(Now!) and late spring... As the leaf fall season has just begun.. the time to act is Now. there is already a haze over the city from dust and smoke as the rain hasnt bailed us out yet.treeslovepeaceajay--On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Naina Abrol <naina...@gmail.com> wrote:Hi
this diwali flowers wish was very good i posted on my fb
for every one
NainaOn 27 October 2011 11:36, Anadish Pal <ana...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the appreciation.
AnadishOn Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Usha Srinivasan <usrin...@devalt.org> wrote:
Thanks for the Deewali card with a message that I will send to many more.Usha Srinivasan--On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Anadish Pal <ana...@gmail.com> wrote:
--Enjoy the cracking fresh air, if you stop blasting it!
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Anadish Pal
Nov 7, 2011, 8:05:59 AM11/7/11
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Especially @Anil
We are very fortunate in our locality to have had a very active anti-leaf-burning protagonist in the shape of a much younger yours truly. The modus operandi was to carry a bucketful of water to the burning pile and to douse the flame. That mess made the work of the sweeper even more difficult. After a year or two of that firefighting, now the sanitary inspector in our colony takes extra care as to have all the sweepers posted about not burning leaves. However, go to the Tis Hazari courts and near that citadel of law all the rubbish piles near lawyers' chambers are mercilessly tircked, with all the denizens of lawful kind watching and breathing with nonchalance -- surely the kinds of MC Mehta too roamed those alleys one, but, alas.
Trying to save ONE tree has landed me into those labyrinths and even I have no more courage to take on those smoke filled guardians of law.
In my childhood I used to hear a half Nepalese joke about how a train was descirbed to a villager who was going to board one: Look for a black thing which would spew smoke and had water trickling down, run and climb on top of that. The poor villager reached the station and saw a TTI urinating on the tracks and jumped on his back for his life!
That was in Gorakhpur.
In Delhi after 40 years, has life changed at all? You have so many such trains all around, only the poor villager has been lost, as he lost his innocence, quite like Tess of the d'Urbervilles...
Love to my folks,
Anadish
We are very fortunate in our locality to have had a very active anti-leaf-burning protagonist in the shape of a much younger yours truly. The modus operandi was to carry a bucketful of water to the burning pile and to douse the flame. That mess made the work of the sweeper even more difficult. After a year or two of that firefighting, now the sanitary inspector in our colony takes extra care as to have all the sweepers posted about not burning leaves. However, go to the Tis Hazari courts and near that citadel of law all the rubbish piles near lawyers' chambers are mercilessly tircked, with all the denizens of lawful kind watching and breathing with nonchalance -- surely the kinds of MC Mehta too roamed those alleys one, but, alas.
Trying to save ONE tree has landed me into those labyrinths and even I have no more courage to take on those smoke filled guardians of law.
In my childhood I used to hear a half Nepalese joke about how a train was descirbed to a villager who was going to board one: Look for a black thing which would spew smoke and had water trickling down, run and climb on top of that. The poor villager reached the station and saw a TTI urinating on the tracks and jumped on his back for his life!
That was in Gorakhpur.
In Delhi after 40 years, has life changed at all? You have so many such trains all around, only the poor villager has been lost, as he lost his innocence, quite like Tess of the d'Urbervilles...
Love to my folks,
Anadish
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