Little Brothers Municipal Corporation of Gurugram needs to pause and rethink its plan to make children ‘challan’ their families Updated: December 29, 2020 8:06:04 am
To be fair to the MCG most government entities like to create a citizenry in their own image bureaucratic, officious, eager to prosecute.
The good people at the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) are lucky, perhaps, that Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade is fictional. Had he been around, instead of being a character played by Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (1992), the MCG would certainly have received a tongue-lashing for its Christmas week launch of the “Family Sanitation Challan Book”. Essentially, children will be taught, through “play”, to inform on their families and friends, “to make them vigilant and to create an atmosphere in households wherein people are aware and keep checking each other,” according to MCG Joint Commissioner Dheeraj Kumar. These youn