The Chaka Chak Campaign My hearty congratulations to the NGO’s and the village Panchayats for initiating the “chaka chak” campaign in Goa. A lot of us forget our civic sense more often than not and contribute to the decay and the degeneration around, which finally spews micro organisms that infect people with a good many illnesses and diseases that can often be fatal. Apart from ill health it also affects our ecology and environment which in the end affects all humans and animals as well.
Awareness campaign can be a booster or a catalyst for some of the people who have some how lost their civic sense and brings them back to the reality, while it enlightens the ignorant who take everything for granted and least worried of the repercussions of their negligence and their apathy. It has to be drawn on the public at large, the degenerating effect of our apathy and our inaction in keeping our surroundings and neighbourhoods clean and hygienic. I hope the “chaka chak” campaign will invigorate and ignite in us, the civic sense that should have been inborn because of our literacy and our culture. As the “chaka chak” campaign takes off on the Republic Day, I hope and pray that all Goans will be entrenched with the civic sense that we Goans will be proud of. Along with our streets and neighbourhoods, I hope we Goans will enhance our civic sense by fumigating the entire establishment called the Vidhan Sabha, clearing all the dirt and filth that’s embodied and personified there in, at the next Assembly election. Only then, we could be proud of our remarkable civic sense. Freddy Agnelo Fernandes