Really. You expect a nation of 1.2B people to change overnight (it's been a year since Modi got elected).
The task is gargantuan; it won't happen in a year or even a decade.
Here's a simple example: the Cuyahoga river in Ohio caught fire because of pollution several times over a period of 100 years before someone decided to do something; and even then, it took decades to clean it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River This is in America, a land with so much wealth and so many resources.
Here's the difference though: We passed the Clean Water Act, and stuff got done. Before that, as far as I know, nothing really making illegal to pollute the waters. Of course there is corruption and the like in the US, but nothing like India. It's not like the problem was people defecating in the Cuyahoga, it was purely an industrial problem.
Really. You expect a nation of 1.2B people to change overnight (it's been a year since Modi got elected).
The task is gargantuan; it won't happen in a year or even a decade.
Here's a simple example: the Cuyahoga river in Ohio caught fire because of pollution several times over a period of 100 years before someone decided to do something; and even then, it took decades to clean it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River This is in America, a land with so much wealth and so many resources.