Dusty dust bins and vehicles!

Every other day you see them, in front of your home, in the road - the carriers of dust and waste generated from homes.
Earlier their used to be big 'dust'/'waste' bins at every corner of road where we used to go and dump the waste. Then, every 2 or 3 days once, the then Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) open, shoddy, ugly looking van would come and clear them, though in a super hap-hazard way! Even after the van went, one could say that today their was the BMP van here and one could track the route taken by that open-van, as waste used to fall on every inch on the road!! :-)
Now, gone those days and the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) mooted program of collecting the waste from 'your doorstep' is in progress, all over the city! Good in one way but bad in many ways!! :-(
First the good news; good because you dont need to go and find a waste bin to dump the waste;instead the collecting vans/carts come in front of your home and you can dump the waste in the bin. So, dumping the waste is now just a few steps away! :-)
But the bad news are:
1. You are now dependant on the person who comes to collect the waste. If they dont come for a day also, there will be lot of waste generated and it gets accumulated. There is no other way to dispose this!
2. The push-cart / hand-cart that they come with has 4 medium-sized black bins. These are used to collect and store the waste but they themselves are so so pathetic that those bins itself are a big waste! Even the trucks that the BBMP uses to collect the waste from all these push-carts are so badly maintained that from every corner of the truck, the waste keeps falling on the road! Adding to this, these trucks does not have any roof top to cover the accumulated waste and when the truck passes, due to the wind, lot of waste falls down. Hence I told one can point and say that their was a BBMP waste collecting truck here!!
What I wonder here is, the government apart from allocating money for these things (that money is none others than our hard-earned, tax-payed money!), also collects Rs 10/- from every house for providing this door service and inspite of that they have such a stinking, pathetic infrastructure/vechicles used! If the goverment officials doesnt want the good old Ambassador car but want luxurious Lancer or Accent to commute everywhere, why the heck cant they care about providing better vehicles and service to the people?? After all, everywhere what is being spent on them as well as some part on us, is our tax money right but still we stand to get poorer services everywhere! :-((
Dont know when the government will really turn, if at all, to service the people with better facilities rather than servicing themselves and their families!

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