I went for the Karthavyam walk with my dad. I went around 6:00 in the evening. The first place that came to my mind when we walked around were the plots. There is quite a lot of garbage dumped in many of them. There are huts near many of the plots and initially there was not much garbage but slowly it started to increase and it might be affecting the people living in the huts. It is unhygienic and the smells bad. To solve this problem I think we need to be empathetic more than anything else and think about the people living in the huts who have to bear with the stench.
After that I took one of the examples that we were given in the Karthavyam class last Friday about the lake and I found a similar situation. The lake that was drying up. There was lots of algae in the lake and there were quite a lot of weeds. There is a tarred road running through the lake and there are 2 lakes on either side of the road. I think they might have been one lake before they started to dry up and before the road was built.
The lake seemed quite hard to restore to I think we need optimism as we should feel that the lake can get better and if we put in a lot of hard work all of it will pay of in the end. After some time we also say that construction workers had put a pile of sand and stones on the side of the road and since the road is narrow it was almost blocking the path of the vehicles making it harder to drive on. I think we need to get out of the stage where we keep complaining about the narrow road and clear out the sand and stones.
I think the mindset we need for this problem is make it. One of the problems we have been facing for quite some time is our roads. We used to have good ones but then they started digging it up. To add to that sometime when the workers used to dig up they left it incomplete. They left the potholes and pits the way they were and did not attend to it after that. This, again, causes inconvenience for the people driving and the potholes very deep and we have been trying for quite some time to get the roads better but nothing has happened. We need to be confident that the roads can get better and we need to learn from our failure. These were the problems I found in the area I lived in.
