While onus of developing public facilities for public satisfaction lies on the Government, the onus of enlightening the minds of youth for the purposes of raising the sense of maintaining and developing such public facilities among youth lies on the religious preachers and civil society groups. Laudable it is that Government has developed the already existing public facilities including roads and drains ahead of the G20 meeting on tourism in Srinagar but it is for the people to take care of such public facilities to their utter satisfaction from now onwards. After all the citizens have to behave like humans to ensure that no damage is done to public facilities built by civic bodies for the public satisfaction from time to time. Civility if imbibed among youth is best way to prompt them to show interest in the community’s needs and affairs in a town or a city and this is what is found missing in the cities and towns across Jammu & Kashmir. Human ethics demands that citizens perform their duties and responsibilities even if they are not asked to do so by the people in the Government or the religious preachers and civil society groups. Since this is the best way to respect elders and consequently learn the real meaning of civility which needs to be followed by one and all irrespective of age, faith, colour or creed, the change in thinking and perceptions of the youth matters the most . Since religious and cultural identities have to do nothing with the civility as even the tourists visiting Kashmir are expected to perform their duties and responsibilities in maintaining the public facilities developed by the Government for their convenience, avoiding spitting at public places and throwing plastic bottles and polythenes at public places including parks and gardens is as good a responsibility of tourists as it is of local residents.
“Since people of Kashmir are known world over for maintaining and developing highest standards of civility and civic sense, all they have to do is to make civic sense and civility part of their social and cultural life for the purposes sharing collective duties and responsibilities. The people of Kashmir have capacity and capability to overcome the challenge of making civic sense and civility inalienable of parts of their social and cultural life”.
Since People showing civility and civic sense themselves perform duties and responsibilities, they need not to learn the basics of civility and civic sense. When people themselves take care of the public facilities which become the sources of pride and attraction for them they also leave much for the visitors to learn at the end of the day. Since people of Kashmir are known world over for maintaining and developing highest standards of civility and civic sense, all they have to do is to make civic sense and civility part of their social and cultural life for the purposes sharing collective duties and responsibilities. The people of Kashmir have capacity and capability to overcome the challenge of making civic sense and civility inalienable of parts of their social and cultural life .
