The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has fined a man for spitting pan masala at a public place in what it claims is the first case of its kind in the country. The AMC has fined Mahesh Kumar from Ahmedabad's eastern suburb of Naroda Rs 100. He was caught spitting on CCTV near the Sardar Patel Statue Road. The civic body issued an e-memo for violation of public health laws. The corporation said in a press release that this is the first such case in the country. Ahmedabad was recently selected as the top city in a national cleanliness survey.
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In every nook and corner of this country, we have a human shooting machine, which processes this packed paan masala, and targets the road or any empty wall and shoots from his mouth. Every fourth person in this part of the world indulges in this habit. But in today’s article, my focus won’t be on the oral cancer cases from India that has a share of 86 per cent of the world’s cases. What worries me, and every distressed citizen is the tonnes of paan waste that is spit all over public places by 300 million inconsiderate hard-working yet escapist individuals.
In August 2010, Brent Council reported that paan stains have already painted Wembley red. London, like most big cities of the world, is home to many people of Indian origin. id the amount of paan being spat on the streets of Wembley has dramatically increased. When it dries, the mixture leaves a dark red, blood-like stain which is difficult and costly to remove. The council is planning an education campaign about the problems of paan spitting, which carries an £80 fine. More than 500 people, including community leaders, police officers, health experts and business owners attended a conference in December last year to discuss the growing problem.