you start putting empty plastic bottles outside your gate, and within a day, you will have a tip there where every indian will chuck their rubbish

"Every Indian", probably you should move house to a decent area!

Have you travelled through the new terminal at Dabolim Airport? I have, it had only been opened a short time but was already being used as a rubbish dump and the majority of travellers were Indian. I am not saying that all the rubbish was deposited on the floor by Indians but while I was waiting for my flight I saw several using the floor rather than the bin provided.

No, I have only travelled in and not out via the new terminal. I must say I quite believe what you say. Unfortunately Goa is Goa!!!!
Other airports are very different. (Apart from Chennai domestic female toilets)

Other cities obviously there are slums, and poor areas but garbage clearance tidiness in general etc. is much better than Goa, which with only 1 million population no real excuse.
Even here in Karwar a man comes twice a week for dry garbage.

WE DID!!! MOVED BACK TO BLIGHTY, MISS THE FOOD, BUT NOT THE ROBBIN BASTARDS

I can not believe it is Goans who are making all the mess in the airport having seen the mess made in our resort restaurant and by the pool by Indians from outside Goa who come and stay in the resort. Other airports may be better at cleaning up after these travellers.

Agree it is not just Indians from Goa who throw stuff around.

My disagreement was with was with the words "every" Indian.

Have just been having a lengthy discussion about the subject with rels. staying with us. We don't know the answer as it is not just 'class' related. Just better education and regulations from officials.

All I do know is that the people that we know personally, rels. friends etc. and there are a great many of them (educated) do not throw their garbage around.

Let's see what Modi can achieve???

If you remember Britain went through a national campaigns in the 60s & 70s under the blurb " Keep Britain Tidy." and this was before the Enviro-Mentalists jumped on the bandwagon.Where i was born in the North was post industrial or rapidly becoming so and the area around the house was a complete mess through dumped rubbish on vacant industrial sites.Certainly every Goan government in the past 30 years has done nothing at all except close its collective eyes to the growing problem of rubbish disposal.The only problem with Goa is that collecting rubbish costs money and that would mean upping local taxes to pay for it.....How much do Goans pay in local taxation ? Ceratainly there is a need for a national campaign in India and penalties to stop people throwing rubbish anywhere they can.Especially out of car windows..!

I can not remember the bit of North East England I grew up in being anything other than clean and tidy in the 50's 60's and 70's, however revisiting the North East in later years in particularly some run down areas the mess on the streets and even on the busses has to be easily on a par with Goa. Takeaway's cartons, plastic bottles and other things litter the streets. Luckily I live in the South east now in a clean and tidy village although we do pay a lot in council tax in part to keep it that way.
If, by Goan local taxes you mean the panchat tax then from what I understand very few locals actually pay it and it amounts to very little anyway, it is the non Goans with property that pay the tax and the tax we pay is a lot higher than that which the locals are supposed to pay.

Goan Voice today. MLA Lobo was upset to find the beach in Calingute full of broken bottles left by Indian Tourists.HM...he wants to go down to Baga because at one point i thought it must be a recycling collection area for glass because it was full of broken bottles.They sit on the wall of the creek and throw them as a form of sport.I can only conclude that Lobo must be very short sighted or stupid, maybe both, because the whole F***ing beach from Candolim to Baga is full of bottles and in the bushes, turds, tampons, babies nappies,condoms and Uncle Tom Cobbley and all ......what a wan**r.....

Agree with you, and with hemingway's deleted post!!!!!

Read in today's The Herald that The Baga Beach Cleaning Association first run at cleaning up the mess totaled 17 tractor loads of garbage and guess what, my old mate Chandra, a taxi driver, was part of the initiative.During the Monsoon period its horrifying to discover whats actually in the ocean because despite people throwing waste in the Mandovi and thinking its gone, that's not actually true because most of it washes up due to the tides etc.

That's the one.

Just travelled on a domestic flight to Mumbai. The new terminal seemed bigger and cleaner etc. The cafeteria is far too small, very crowded today.

I must say I did not see any garbage on the floor, (I found myself 'scanning' the place for refuse, after your post), maybe you went on a bad day? or there are more bins now?
Jet seems to be deteriorating in service. They seemed to have forgotten the food and gave out trays at the same time as seat belts for landing!!! It was the usual tasteless 'wrap' anyway.