A video of a groom’s family in Surat, Gujarat, cleaning the road after bursting firecrackers has gone viral on social media, earning praise for their sense of responsibility and civic duty. The video shows the wedding procession stopping in the Katargam area, with the relatives not dancing, but instead, picking up brooms and clearing the road of firecracker waste.
The reason behind this admirable act? The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has imposed strict rules against littering, and recently, another wedding procession was fined Rs 5,000 for leaving behind firecracker trash. To avoid a similar penalty and maintain the city’s cleanliness, the groom’s relatives decided to take matters into their own hands.
Responsible gesture amid SMC’s tough regulations, with brooms in hand, they efficiently swept the road, gathering the remains of firecrackers and ensuring the procession could proceed without any fines. Their gesture of civic duty attracted much attention from bystanders and drivers, who stopped to watch and even join the spontaneous cleaning drive.
Ravi Patel, a relative of the groom, explained their motivation in a statement, saying, “Instead of leaving the mess for sanitation workers to clean and possibly facing a fine, we chose to take responsibility and clean the road ourselves. The entire road was littered with firecracker waste, and we wanted to do our part to keep Surat, India’s cleanest city, clean.”
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