When people near MG Road Metro Station in Bengaluru are forced to clean the roads themselves, it raises a brutal question: what are we paying taxes for? The government happily pockets salaries, announces flashy schemes, and throws freebies for vote banks, but leaves citizens to do the most basic civic tasks. Here’s why this is a knockout punch against governance:
1. Taxpayers Become Sweepers
Citizens already pay hefty taxes, cess, and property fees—but still end up cleaning garbage themselves. Isn’t this exactly what the BBMP (Bengaluru corporation) is paid for?
2. Officials Take Salary, Do zero Work
While officials enjoy fat salaries, cars, and perks, the streets rot with garbage, potholes, and filth. The equation is simple: citizens work, government relaxes.
3. Freebies Over Basics
Instead of fixing civic infrastructure, crores are thrown into “vote-bank yojanas.” Free laptops, mixers, and cash schemes take priority while drains overflow and garbage mountains pile up.
4. Shame of a Global City
Bengaluru brands itself as a “tech capital,” yet its streets look like neglected villages. Citizens cleaning their own city is a global embarrassment—proof that governance has collapsed.
5. The Core Truth
A “10th class country” is one where the government treats citizens as free labor and taxpayers as ATM machines. Until accountability is forced, nothing will change.
👉 If the government won’t do its job, then why should citizens pay taxes at all? Time for people to stop being silent and start demanding value for every rupee collected.
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