Surbhi Rana

The Kachra Wali Gadi comes… but only till the main road.
It never enters the inner streets, the corner houses, the small gullies, the villages, the offbeat colonies — the places where real people actually live. It stops at a few “fixed points” and leaves the rest of the community to figure out their own waste disposal.
Now the real question is: Where are people supposed to throw their garbage when there are no dustbins and no doorstep collection?
The sad reality?
People end up throwing it into nature — forests, empty plots, water streams, roadside corners… and slowly, quietly, our beautiful Dharamshala is turning into a dump.
This is not just unhygienic — it is dangerous.
Nature always pays back.
Pollution, bad smell, diseases, contaminated soil, messed-up tourism, destroyed landscapes — all of this is the price we will pay if this continues.
We can avoid this.
The government can take simple steps:
• Proper waste management in offbeat areas
• Installing dustbins in inner streets, villages, and small colonies
• Ensuring Kachra Wali Gadi goes door-to-door, not just to the main road
• Creating clear systems for garbage collection
• Spreading awareness so that people bring their waste to the designated points if doorstep pickup is not possible
Dharamshala is incredibly beautiful. It has huge tourism potential.
But if we don’t take these small steps now, this heaven will slowly turn into a garbage heap.
Please — locals, tourists, government, everybody — do something about this.
Let’s save our mountains before they drown in waste.