Kanpur: Despite the National Green Tribunal's strictness the Kanpur Municipal Corporation's health department does not make it compulsory to carry the garbage laden trucks with the polythene cover during the morning hours.
On Sunday morning a truck loaded with the garbage was moving on the VIP road towards the Nai Chungi in Jajmau area here and its foul smell was so unbearable to the riders that they either slowed down their vehicles or cycles or stopped on the road's safe side so that they could save themselves from the dirt & particles coming onto the body with the blowing air.
It was only defiling them and the unbearable stench rising above and mixing with air was so bad to their nose as making them difficult to breathe properly.
Several road users said how could the rule be avoided? Is there no control of the zonal officers of the Corporation on the carriers?
Strangely the 150-ft road in Jajmau used to be treaded more often by the ministers and the high-ranking government officers as they pass through this spacious road for the Circuit House on Tagore Road in Cantt area.
Once the covering of the garbage was made essential but the apparent laxity has been observed only to harm the common man on the road. Those who move on the closed vehicles could save themselves but how could the pedestrians and open vehicle owners remain unharmed? Is this not a grave disregard of the directives issued earlier?
The denizens particularly the morning walkers raise demand for a complete curb on this kind of irresponsible attiude of the NN vehicle driver. We need fresh air at least in the morning, maintain people.
