Stricter penalties:
• 75 years old free travel Nagaland bus.
• Not all but some people are not amenable to the language of love, politeness, courtesy and leniency and need to be dealt with harshly and strictly to get the desire response from them. So in my opinion, stricter penalties will be an effective one.
• We don't want to lose our money on fines or we do not want to go to jail. So Strict penalties can only change our Naga society.
Better municipal responsiveness:
• People long for change so the municipal should take extra extreme measures to promote and reserve more areas for recycling and throwing garbage.
• Better municipal responsiveness in my opinion because penalties failed and will fail and with innumerable awareness campaigns nothing changed much. But I can see better outcomes in municipal responsiveness.
Increased awareness campaigns:
• Too much destruction of public properties is one big reason which is hampering the development of public properties. That is why we don't see any interest from the government side in developing stadiums, high-tech colleges etc in Nagaland.
• Since of most of the people are not aware, we need to educate them first.
• Knowledge is power is the first step to awakened the heart and mind of the people. Belongingness of the other can preserves public property.
Others:
• Stricter penalties, Better municipal responsiveness and increased awareness campaigns are some of the aspects that work in varying instances where information and knowledge has penetrated to the masses with varying acceptances. Other than that, individuals from various walks of life exposed to varying realities has to be conscious and emotional enough for taking up and applying changes in one's everyday life. Civic Sense is a consideration for the norms of society and when the constituents of society are themselves are alienated from a social life with more and more comparisons among the haves and the have not. The inter-connected aspects of ones life to the other and the environment is turning more into a photo shoot moment for social and print media disclosure rather than an everyday lived experience furthering the ails of our arrogant society. When grassroot problems are not tackled with grassroot knowledge at the grassroot level, we can be rest assured that all is well in never being well. The best example in our times is the municipal collecting wastes from households and taking them far away just to be burned for a better concentrated polluting activity and for the state pollution control (communication) board to gather and present more data. Irony has no stand in competition to us Nagas (the most hardworking and honest constituents of the earth that reveres nature more than any environmentally conscious practitioner).
• All of the above including responsibility and accountability by each individuals. Nagas are just by the books and not by actions, that's why we see educated bookish people doing nothing.
• Others: Family and Church. Two of the biggest influences in an average Naga person's social life. Cleanliness and civic sense are the most basic and simplest of values that should be taught from the very start. They should be inculcated at a very young age in children by respective parents on the very floor of their homes. Parents should teach their children to respect public property, to flush toilets after use whether at home or outside, to not litter the streets, to use dustbin in public spaces etc. Society should not blame schools and education for lack of civic sense. The very upbringing of the child is to blame.
• Churches are the institutions that get the biggest respect in Naga society. Any Naga, whatever his moral or spiritual inclination may be, takes the rules and teachings of the Church very seriously. Thus, church leaders should take the prime initiative in inculcating virtue of public cleanliness and civic sense in their sermons and teachings. They should inculcate the message among the Nagas, who also happen to be stout and ardent Christians that it's not only the soul that needs to be clean but also our surroundings and environment, both private and public. Destroying public property and littering is also a sin in every sin because the consequences of your irresponsible actions are borne by the suffering of others.
• Intensifying awareness campaigns along with stricter penalties will be the most helpful thing.
• All of the above. If you think on the logical side, we still need all of the above.
• Don't trust the person who attend churches, they know how to tell lies, cheat etc…etc, they're not afraid of god, as they know they'll pray again for forgiveness. They need special awareness campaigns. Those person who knows how to pray are the ones selling god name & words.
