This place has huge political and historical significance as this is where the infamous Kaala Pani punishment was meted out to the Indian prisoners. And, to top this, this place is one of Andaman’s pristine tropical islands. But, cleanliness is of hardly any significance here at Viper Island.
As soon as one enters Viper island from its only boat jetty, one can spot garbage strewn around the entire beach and amidst the coconut trees and sadly most of it is non bio-degradable plastic.
What irks me most is that the locals don’t mind this place becoming a garbage dump!! Little do they know that they will lose their income (from tourism, fishing and agriculture) if this keeps going on.
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It's sad when people visit 'nature' and 'kill' it like this.
ReplyDeleteHopefully this post will make ppl realise their role as 'resposible tourists' a bit more... good one, sankara.
Loshini
It's sad when people visit 'nature' and 'kill' it like this.
ReplyDeleteHopefully this post will make ppl realise their role as 'resposible tourists' a bit more... good one, sankara.
Loshini
Lets hope that such posts generate some bit of environmental awareness in the people...
ReplyDeletethe thing is most folks know about the consequences, but tend to ignore it as they think it will not affect them, but the future generations only.