Some of those who voted Municipality had this to say:
• It depends on whether it is private and public property. The responsibility of sanitation will depend on that. While the society at large is responsible for sanitation, because it effects everyone, we still need to define the matter in legal terms. The public is responsible for the sanitation of their own private property and also to ensure that waste does not flow into another person’s private property. The municipality is responsible for the public property and also to see that proper facilities are provided to private citizens to dispose off their waste material. So on the whole the municipality is responsible and I think this is clearly stated in the municipal act.
• If not them who else is capable to do so? Unless we have a sewer and drainage system like cities, the municipal should be responsible.
• Provide dustbin properly
• It will work better when there is a system in place and someone is answerable or accountable to it.
• There is no proper dumping ground. Just look at the one before you reach Kohima, it’s a shame and it is a mirror image of Nagaland. I feel the municipalities are responsible for ensuring that they maintain good dumping grounds and to also create re-cycling facilities. A lot of the waste that are thrown away like bottles, cans and paper can be recycled only if everyone applies their mind. The public should be responsible for seeing that they put the garbage in order so that the municipality can pick them up and throw them away to the dumping grounds.
• Municipality should run an awareness campaign, only then public take responsibility...Anyway, do we even have a municipal board that works outside their office?/ all we hear of them is through newspapers, about some resignation and new appointees...
• Sanitation is the primary responsibility of the municipality. Yes, there is no doubt the public is responsible for keeping their locality clean and hygienic, but when you talk in terms of sanitation, the municipality has to see that the garbage if being picked up regularly and that there is infrastructure in place to take care of dumping garbage, good drainage system and seeing that health concerns are being addressed.
• What are they doing/will do with the tax money if they don’t clean? While the public are responsible for cleaning their surroundings the Municipal council is totally responsible for drainage...etc. etc.
• Why else do they receive their salary for? Surely not to create one controversy after another, but to keep the city clean and healthy! (the public has a role too, but the municipality has the bigger share!)
• Municipality, because under the municipal act, it was the duty of the municipal council for sanitation work. If the public are compel to work on sanitation job than they must be paid instead.
Some of those who voted Public had this to say:
• Every citizen is responsible
• Having a clean place to live in...means starting from throwing a sweet wrapper into a dustbin to throwing our own garbage into the thrash bin.."IT SHOULD START FROM US" not the public nor the municipal or others...if we start then eventually it will pay off!
• An individual knows his own need and to have an environmental hygiene. If the municipal did something good but if the public do not know or keep the value of it, it will become useless. If one needs cleanliness at home he needs it more outside.
• In your own locality if u do not take care of it..who will???
• If the government build public toilets, then let the local youth clubs maintain the cleanliness with proper water facility. If the local clubs take sincere initiative, funds will not be a constraint for buying materials required for maintenance. Do not blame the government if people do not have civic sense. Let us sanitize Dimapur, Kohima, Mokokchung and all district towns. The standard of your toilet determines how civilize you are, health wise.
• Public of course! But most people seem to think that it is the duty of others to clean it for them. Come on! There’s nothing degrading to clean the drain and paths in your area!
Some of those who voted Others had this to say:
• C'mon! We all carry our A**** around and we drop it when the call of nature arrives. Who should be responsible? The one carrying the A**! Likewise, we all should be responsible for we are the ones who drop it and we should pick it up. It should start at HOME. Civic sense is never learnt on the streets. "sigh"
• Municipality and public are to be blame .The ignorance of both are to be counted.
• Both because it belongs to both
• Both the public and municipality has miserably failed in the area of sanitation. They keep blaming each other, whereas they both need to coordinate to see that sanitation is maintained.
• It definitely starts with the public. But the municipality is also responsible in checking and directing the drains.
• Most Naga towns are not planned at all and they all lack proper drainage system. This is the main cause of worry. So it’s a cycle that keeps going round and round. Even if the public take care of their waste, where do they throw it, there is no proper waste facility, and so they end up throwing it in another colony and this does not solve the problem at all. For sanitation, both public and municipality must be involved and the government must take care to see that proper drainage and waste facilities are created.
