VIZAG matters - Sohan Hatangadi's Blog

WE WERE BLESSED BY ARAKU AND THEN  PROMPTLY TURNED IT INTO A FILTHY SLUM Araku Main Road after nightfall. Is this a hill station or a paradise for Dengue and Malaria? Click on this link to see what it is about. https://youtu.be/XPVk-7SobCE The sad thing is that all we have one God-given hill station which we keep milking in the name of tourism. Yet we are unable to maintain it. Araku main road is a filthy disaster. 

Plaster of Paris Ganehas, painted with lead-based paints, being immersed in the sea is a threat to our coastal waters. Please click on this link and see the video https://youtu.be/P9HMbxKTPak Ganesha idols made of Plaster of Paris is a menace to our sea. They are generally painted with lead-based synthetic enamel paints. After the festival, the Ganeshas are immersed in our water bodies and sea. The paint additives damage marine life due to their toxic nature. The old fashioned mud and clay Vinayakas are best. Let us ban PoP idols and go only for mud and clay Vinayakas from now on. GVMC and our AP Pollution Control Boards must take a tough stand on this issue.

21st September 2019 was INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP DAY! Lawsons Bay Video Click on this link to see the video: https://youtu.be/D6q8oQ1O9ZY Here is what our famous Lawsons Bay looked like on International Coastal Cleanup Day. See these pics and the attached video. With so much rubbish landing up in our sea transported by our stormwater drains every day,  plus all the plastics in the sea coming back with the waves. it is impossible to ever clean up our coast. We have to stop plastics from getting into the sea in the first place.

PLASTIC EXCUSES This attached newspaper report gives multiple reasons why the corporation is unable to deal with the plastics crisis. 1. "The territory is too big" 2. "The quantity is too much" 3. "There are too many shops - it is difficult" 4. "80% is illegal, not locally made", (sounds like we are dealing with the NARCOS or arms dealers) 5. "The recycling facility is too low". (Why did you not make more and bigger facilities earlier?) Every issue has been discussed from years, in fact from 2008! Recently,  suggestions made by communities have been scoffed at or ignored. The corporation, despite appearances,  hates to acknowledge or accept citizen's inputs. GVMC themselves have pumped 8,00,000 plastic water sachets in a single day into the ecosystem during the recent  Giripradikdhana. The Simahchalam Devasthanam, supported by the administration, have pumped another 12,00,000 water sachets into the city a