Cleanliness at Bus Stands - Inputs on Solutions

Below are the key issues and root causes related to cleanliness at bus stands. Kindly review them and please help identify extremely specific solutions that should be implemented to improve cleanliness at bus stands across India.

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Cleanliness Issues at Bus Stands – Root Causes

1. General public in the city lack civic sense
2. The administrative authority for most bus stands have a do not care attitude towards cleanliness
3. The public toilets around the bus stands are very filthy and many times they don’t even have running water
4. People waiting at bus stands throw garbage in corners creating garbage piles
5. Lack of spit bins at bus stands
6. The maintenance of facilities and infrastructure after construction is not taken care of
7. Vendors on the bus stand do not have big enough garbage bins and garbage keeps spilling from them
8. The drainage system around the bus stands is bad
9. Lack of a designated person to look after maintenance of bus stands in the designated area
10. Absence of dust bins at bus stands
11. There is lack of effective laws to force people to ensure cleanliness, as in other countries
12. Drains are open in general which are treated as the places for garbage disposal making them choked all the time and are over flown in the event of rains.

Cleanliness Issues at Bus Stands – Issues

1. Bus stands are very unclean
2. People urinate next to the bus stands
3. There are open drains near many bus stands creating a foul smell
4. One can see a lot of garbage all around the bus stand
5. People waiting for buses spit around the bus stand
6. Seats on the bus stands are very dirty
7. Travellers dispose plastic bags, food items etc. at bus stands
8. Tea stalls/gutkha vendors dispose their waste materials on the bus stand premises
9. During rainy season, the bus stand become open pond with no option but to face the dirt all round
10. Some bus stands are occupied by the homeless
11. Petty vendors like peanuts sellers, fruit sellers create not only chaotic situation but also create lot of garbage. more