PMO asks Ministry of Defence to clear tourist litter in high-altitude areas

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Good Evening India….

I apologise to my civilian friends for this unacceptable bout of my anger leading to my writing this. Yet all of you should know what is happening with the glorious Indian Army and the extent to which these babus will go to demean them. This is a democracy otherwise the Kukris would have been out a long time ago. I request all of you to do your bit to restrain the PMO and the MOD from such antics, in which ever way you can, otherwise we the Indian Army may not remain fit to fight another war successfully.

PMO asks Ministry of Defence to clear tourist litter in high-altitude areas

THE PRIME Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to ensure that waste left behind by tourists in high-altitude locations in the country is removed. Disclosing this here on Saturday, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, “Many of these high-altitude bases are not reachable by tourists like you and me but still some tourists manage to get there. The junk left behind (by the tourists) never decomposes because of conditions prevailing there (read frozen human crap or shit, frozen piss, plastics, leftover food, food and water cans and what have you). So one of the objectives of the Swachhta Abhiyan for us would be to go to those high-altitude positions and clean them.”

Kargil and Ladakh areas of Jammu and Kashmir, and Sikkim in the Northeast see a large number of tourists every year. At many remote locations, there is negligible presence of civilian administration, and only the Indian Army is present in numbers. The Defence Minister was in Kasauli, a hill town in Himachal Pradesh, to award Open Defecation-Free (ODF) certificates to eight cantonments under the Army’s Western Command. These are Amritsar, Dalhousie, Dagshai, Ferozepur, Jalandhar, Jutogh, Kasauli and Subathu cantonments.

I think this is a babu chal. I do not think this is the Prime Ministers idea at all. I think all babus in PMO, MOD, and all other ministries should be herded together, moved out from their air conditioned offices, air lifted to Leh Ladakh, Sikkim parts of Nepal and further North, put under Army battalion Commanders and made to clean the frozen shit and piss of civilians with their hands, have them filled it in gunny bags and then flown back with it to New Delhi for disposal. Let them dispose it in their Lutyens Delhi thunder boxes and flush it down the drains of the capital.

The Indian Armed Forces are meant to be a fighting and protection force. While they need to do their bit to keep their area clean and hygienic, it is NOT their job to clean the mess created by tourists. Directing them to ensure the Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan is going forward by making them clean high altitude areas is NOT OKAY and is demeaning. Highly demeaning. I hope the Chief of the Army staff has balls big enough to take a bloody stand even at the expense of his “Naukri” aka job.

We wish the PMO, Defence Ministry and the Defence Minister of India to make a statement and cancel these directives.
If you reduce the Army to carriers of night soil, which was banned a long time ago and safaiwalas of this Nation (no excuses for whatever the conditions), this Nation is heading for trouble with a capital “T”.

This statement of the Raksha Mantri ““Many of these high-altitude bases are not reachable by tourists like you and me but still some tourists manage to get there”. What do you mean madam that some tourists manage to get there? It’s a multi million dollar tourist industry, who are we trying to fool. If so then ban all civilian movement out there, or arrest the buggers and make them clean their crap when they move down. Telling the Army to clean their poop is downright unacceptable.