Private Rubbish Dumps (PRD) - Sighting 2

This PRD is located in Kalhuhuraa magu near Okam (T-Centaru goalhi). It was first sighted 2 days back i.e on 18th July 2007. Below I'm going to keep count of how many days it remains:

Sighted: 18th July 2007
Still intact on: 20th July 2007

Private Rubbish Dumps (PRD) - Sighting 1

This was sighted in front of Housing and Infrastructure Redevelopment unit on Majeedheemagu (18th July 2007). The box consist of mainly rotting kitchen leftovers. Hopefully it will be soon spotted and removed by Henveyru Avashu office.

Private Rubbish Dumps (PRD)

I'm going to post pictures of "private rubbish dumps" in Maldives and then keep watching to see how long the rubbish is kept there. I will also try to inform the relevant authorities about these potentially epidemic spots. I would suggest readers to contact authorities regarding these highlighted spots. Readers may also send their PRD sightings to my email, mustharshid [at] gmail dot com.

Couple of dustbins would only cost a few hundred Ruffiyas

Couple of dustbins would only cost a few hundred Ruffiyas. A cleaner would cost hundreds of thousand Ruffiyas. Let’s ponder on that.

I'll use Villingilli beach, the area between ferry terminal and police station, for this example. If bins are to be installed, about 5 large bin would suffice. That's about 1 bin per hundred feet. To clean up this 500 x 80 feet area, at least 5 cleaners would be required.

Lets compare the cost.

5 bins x Rf 1000 = Rf 5000.00
5 cleaners x 1750 x 12 months = 105,000.00

That's simple calculation. Could someone convey this information to Ministry of Finance, please? Thanks.

Clean Ward, Our Ward

This is the banner I talked about in the previous post.

"saafu avah, aharumenge avah"

"saafu avah, aharumenge avah" (roughly translated as - clean town, my town) is displayed at the end of Sosunmagu. I wonder what it would achieve. People are heedless about what it means and it's not even a catchy phrase. Probably most people would think it's an excuse to "donate" money to a crony (those who made the slogan and banner) in the name of campaigning for a clean town, inline with some government policies - after all it doesn’t serve any purpose!

I'll try to get a picture of the banner inshaAllaah.

Note: I've posted a picture of the banner - see it here.

Rubbish bag on bike

While parking my bike, I saw another bike with a bag of rubbish on its. Probably another person like me, I thought. He would have hated throwing the bag on the road, but couldn't find a bin and eventually decided to leave it on the bike - to be discarded later or in the hope that a curious person (thief?) would check the bag and decide to throw it away (probably to the road?) after finding that it's a bag full of rubbish.