How can we make people more civic conscious??

I think if you want people to stop spitting/urinating/throwing away garbages/stop using modes of transport which cause more pollution etc. you need to give people feasible options so that they can avoid doing that and still live their life in a better way.

See its like this:- when you and I go to a air conditioned mall, we don't throw away even a toffee wrapper on the way and make it a point put it in a dustbin, so this means that we all like cleanliness but on a highway or a busy new delhi ring road, we don't really find anything of that sort though we find a lots of shops selling these kinda items. So we do want to buy that but then we don't have enough and affoardable options to dispose that.

Same is the case with public facilities (toilets/bus-stops/libraries).

Again take an example of transport system:- We all want to go away with polluting vehicles running on petrol/diesel etc to CNG vehicles but how many states have CNG filling stations for that. We want people to use public transport so that the rush on the roads is less, but how many states have "Delhi Metro" (which gives us a better, affoardable and viable) public transport system.

The point is precieously that people do want to follow basic civil sense but at times it becomes a burden or to an extent even unviable to do that and we end up causing inconvience to others.

Apart of it, we must educate people about the ill effects of not following basic civic sense so that people try and learn from their mistakes.


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Dual values are the single biggest stumbling block in this regard.

Teachers, parents, seniors and so called leaders and preachers talk one thing and practice just the opposite.  Self Servicing is a trait born out of this.

To a child this is first introduction to world of deceit and practicality, wherein whatever is taught is projected as not good for practice.  

Thanks Ayan.

What we do is everytime we will be blaming the system and politicians for various things which we lack today. Here, it will be unfair to blame the government or politicians for not doing anything about the country’s growth and development. Ultimately what is government? Isn’t it people like us. Our representatives haven’t come from Mars or Jupiter. They are one of you and me. How we are as a society, is reflected everywhere. Let us assume that the 550 members of Parliaments we have elected were to be removed with a magic wand and replaced with a fresh set of another 550 leaders even they have to come from the same society which we are living in. So let us create a better society first than anything else.

There are generally 3 types of leaderships which influence the masses

1. Leading from front: This affects the most. It is synonymous to the philosophy of "top to bottom". The recognised leaders have to set the path.

2. Leading from behind: "Fence sitting" in other words. They dont take lead but when they see things happening then they come forward and contribute a lot.

3. Leading from within: They are the catalysts.

As the first is not happening hence second are not getting ignited. Its the third ones whom we can look at and the ones which we can try to become. All the patriotic Indians can start by themselves to remain smart in public as they are in private. There is no derth of such Indians and they too have not come from Jupiter or Mars. what is needed is to start from wherever we are. Accept the limitations as instantaneous failures and keep going. At the same time educate at least our offsprings.

The situation has worsened in centuries and will naturally take sometime to come to track.

hi ayan firstly i want to say you thanks for raising a very very good question which belong to us,and on which we have to think seriously because it is the place where we live and we will spend our life. i want to qote a sentence "namaziyon se masjid banati hai masjid se namajee nahi bante"so build awareness and education, by education by media by internet and all tools u have.provide some better accessible option.secondly i agree with mr vivek let us start ourself first.

Mr. Ayan, I agree with you that the people enmass is the society, state,nation. Existence of these entity, totally, reflects the mass who are living in. To give a different look and shape to these bodies, the people who live in are to invigourate its neighbourhood with positive thoughts. Things that spoils India's progress & unable to give positive thoughts are due to multi-language & culture; multi political parties. We can not purely blame a political party because it is formed by some section of us only. So, it does reflect that group characteristics. Whatsoever happening in these sphere, Media needs to publicise more positive action consummated, progress made to advance people, step in the offing to re-energize the people. This positive reinforcement will give a tremendous impetus on society  thinking & action. Also, media can curtail as much as possible the negative thoughts even it is very prevalent in sciety. Amplifying a negative measures mutiplying that force manifolds. We can say that at-risk behaviour in the society is multiplied. So, as much as possible , media is to feed positive message to society to keep them going instead of giving out negative thoughts to break the chain of progress. People may say a term called investigative journal. Through investigative journal more crimals are indirectly developed by following the method adopted there.What I feel is to create smaller groups as models & broadcast them to population.

The civic awareness can  be educated by adding subject in curriculum from school level and at the same time compulsory military training for all citizens. l

The conscious word per Se means "aware of and responding to one's surrounding".There is therefore no way except some one either me or you or group of people have to set example to spread civic consciousness,

Thanks,Ayan for referral.

Thanks Ayan. This seems to be the only way for making Indians more civic conscious. Up to a limit you can force things into an individual but he has to be educated properly for the result that you want. Here education does not mean your schooling. Here education means properly guiding the individuals about the importance of the civic amenities and their use to the society as a whole and as an individual. This can be done throug innovative teaching and advertising. Of course the onus is on the Govt. But we as as individual can do a lot.

PEOPLE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE AND WHAT SHOULD NOT BE DONE.LITERACY LEVEL HAS TO BE INCREASED TO MAKE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND MANY THINGS.

Good ideas given by many experts. But for all this planning, we require leaders. In India, we have so many leaders, a huge democracy present here. But i don't think India has good leader. A person who leads, people want to become like him. Then a single person(leader) can make people more civic. But if our leaders, managing committees, Govt can't lead population of India. Then nobody do well in the case. 

And Education is not a single solution for same. I can prove that Educated/ qualified  people overwhelming to spoil our surroundings. And it is not easy to teach an educated people rather than un-educated. It is too big topic..

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