Why India is not Swachh Bharat ?

Let me explain you by, The Bystander Effect.

Let's observe this social experiment.

A group of 10 people were called in and asked to sit down

A man entered and began to set up a tent. As part of the plan, he showed how he was unable to do it alone.

The catch was that out of the 10 people, 9 were actors and knew that it was an experiment.

The experiment was to see how long it takes for that one person to offer help when they are in a crowd.

In each of the cases, the non-actors looked like they wanted to help yet refrained to take the initiative.

Then the same experiment was conducted in a room without the actors; with a single person at a time.

Result?

The average time taken by people in the first experiment was 8 minutes.

The average time taken by people in the second experiment was just 3 minutes.

In fact, one of the girls in the second experiment went ahead to help him in just 12 seconds!

The bystander effect says that when you are in a group, responsibility diffuses among all the people.

You are less likely to take an initiative because you think someone else should do it. They all are equally responsible!

Why is India not a Swach Bharat (a clean India)?

If a group of 10 people can put doubts in a person's mind, then imagine what happens when the responsibility to clean an entire nation gets divided amongst 1.3 billion people.

“In this gigantic population, what difference will I make?”

Thanks to the bystander effect, we now have 1.3 billion people waiting for someone else to come and make a difference.

It's really easy to sit back and say, “Let society make a change first.”

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