Topsy-turvy!

Do we ever question ourselves why do we vote and elect people in power? Are they entrusted with the act of dragging us backward? No one in the modern world would believe that if you have headache you are left with no other alternative other than severing your head! Banning polythene was perhaps not a solution to the phenomenal clotting and fertility problem rather it was a very subtle way of masking failure in good governance. We have colossal city corporations, municipalities and union parishads across the country for taking care to the mass people at the minute level for which people pay huge taxes. Why didn't we made proper arrangements for collecting effluents from every house by in an integrated way so that people can't litter roads and sewerage system with polythene?

Local authorities could provide sufficient number of litterbins alongside the streets and enact the law of charging fine to the litter offenders. We can use polythene bags for keeping domestic dirt, which can be collected by local authorities and in a way, would save the environment from being contaminated with rotten filths. Once the system is implemented those collected polythene bags could be recycled and reused again with out causing any disturbance to the nature. Now if we expect this minimum governance from our elected authorities would that be too much an expectation?

If we can't expect this basic service then why should we bother paying tax? I have tried to find this analogy of banning polythene from elsewhere in the world but I couldn't. May be our respective authority is more cognisable than any other such in the world.