From Karnataka’s Madikeri town, here is a perfect case of defying and supporting PM Modi's ambitious 'Swachh Bharat Mission' project, where a young duo had to travel back 80 kms for picking up the litter they had thrown on the road.
The incident reported by Bangalore Mirror took place on October 30. According to the report, Madetira Thimmaiah, General Secretary of the Kodagu Tourism Association, saw the litter at around 2:15 pm on his way home.
His efforts of cleaning the area got a jolt seeing litter on the road. It was only two days back that Madetira, with help from members of Kadagadalu gram panchayat had cleaned the area.
Searching the litter, the general secretary found the phone number of the couple who had thrown the pizza boxes. He requested them to come back and collect the garbage from the road.
However, the person on the phone simply apologised but refused to return back citing he had crossed Coorg already. But Madetira did not leave the matter here.
He took the help of the local police station to call the duo and convince them to come back and pick the garbage. But both did not agree to this.
Finally, a social media campaign was launched and the duo was left embarrassed after receiving a number of calls. The youngsters were ‘forced’ to turn around and drive back 80 km to come pick up the discarded pizza boxes.
However, Madetira feared that they might throw the boxes outside again. To avoid that, they wrote the names and phone numbers of the two friends on the packet as a warning.
Madikeri is a part of the Kodagu district. This district is popularly known as Coorg and is a famous tourist spot in the state of Karnataka. Many travellers from all over the country visit Coorg for its beautiful hills. The area is covered with coffee estates and cardamom gardens.
After the incident Twitteratis took to the Social media to applaud Madetira Thimmaiah and wrote, 'serves them right' for the duo. We too can't agree more.