Madikeri: In a recent incident, residents of Kadagadalu in Madikeri decided not to accept callous behaviour from visitors and held tourists who had left their village a littered mess accountable. Consequently, two tourists who had discarded trash by the side of the road were made to retrace their journey, travelling back 50km from Periyapatna to Kadagadalu, and collect the waste themselves.
Kadagadalu resident Madetira Thimmaiah, also secretary of Green City Forum, on finding a takeaway bag of a fastfood chain dumped on the roadside, decided to contact those who had discarded the trash there – the names and contact information he found from the bill he found inside the bag. The order had been delivered to Akshatha KK and Chirag, and their numbers had been mentioned on the bill.
Thimmaiah proceeded to make a video to inform the public of what had transpired.
The video subsequently went viral, with Thimmaiah appealing to the public to call the tourists who had discarded the trash, and ask them to return to collect the same.
Madikeri town circle inspector Anoop Madappa also called the two tourists and asked them to carry the discarded bags.
Akshatha and Chirag, who were in Periyapatna when they started receiving calls, rushed back to Kadagadalu village and collected the waste they had earlier discarded on the side of the road.