@article{10.11648/j.ajere.20210602.15,
  author = {Gauri Modwel and Sudhir Kumar Jain},
  title = {Urban Cleanliness a Bottom-up Approach: Perspectives from Shopkeepers},
  journal = {American Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics},
  volume = {6},
  number = {2},
  pages = {66-76},
  doi = {10.11648/j.ajere.20210602.15},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajere.20210602.15},
  eprint = {https://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ajere.20210602.15},
  abstract = {The most important visible difference between a developed country and a developing country is the level of cleanliness as witnessed by the people. Most of the NRIs give preference to cleanliness and continue to live abroad. If India could be a clean country, it would be an equally preferred place to live for majority of the NRIs as well as those who live here but aspire to go abroad or live there. Filthiness adversely affects the health and leads to unavoidable diseases. Further, in clean India, the tourist traffic from developed as well as all other countries will also increase, which will substantially enhance foreign exchange earnings for the nation and, simultaneously, generate significant employment. In this context, this paper is attempted to emphasize problem of lack of cleanliness encompassing waste management and littering in Delhi which is capital of India. The main aim of this paper is to seek opinions from one of the important stakeholders, i.e. shopkeepers, based on important parameters of cleanliness as ways to ensure total cleanliness, limitations or constraints towards lack of cleanliness and extent of contribution towards creation of garbage in the various major markets of Delhi, capital of India. This is empirical research paper based on exploratory research. In this paper, purposive sampling method is used to select sample of shopkeepers of the market of 4 regions in Delhi. Three categories of shopkeepers were surveyed through structured questionnaire. First category of shopkeepers surveyed had up to 5 employees. Second category was the ones which had 6-20 employees and the third category of shopkeepers has more than 20 employees. To test the hypothesis that shopkeepers with up to 5 employees, 6-20 employees and more than 20 employees have statistically significant different opinions regarding cleanliness, an independent t- test is performed. After testing hypothesis, it is concluded that the opinion of all three categories of shopkeepers from different markets in Delhi on all parameters, ways to ensure total cleanliness, limitations or constraints towards lack of cleanliness and extent of contribution towards creation of garbage, are not statistically significantly different therefor all the 3 categories of shopkeepers are having consensus. Hence, based on these findings, there is future scope of preparing paper on policy recommendations for cleanliness in Delhi to the state government.},
 year = {2021}
}

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TY  - JOUR
T1  - Urban Cleanliness a Bottom-up Approach: Perspectives from Shopkeepers
AU  - Gauri Modwel
AU  - Sudhir Kumar Jain
Y1  - 2021/06/22
PY  - 2021
N1  - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajere.20210602.15
DO  - 10.11648/j.ajere.20210602.15
T2  - American Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics
JF  - American Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics
JO  - American Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics
SP  - 66
EP  - 76
PB  - Science Publishing Group
SN  - 2578-787X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajere.20210602.15
AB  - The most important visible difference between a developed country and a developing country is the level of cleanliness as witnessed by the people. Most of the NRIs give preference to cleanliness and continue to live abroad. If India could be a clean country, it would be an equally preferred place to live for majority of the NRIs as well as those who live here but aspire to go abroad or live there. Filthiness adversely affects the health and leads to unavoidable diseases. Further, in clean India, the tourist traffic from developed as well as all other countries will also increase, which will substantially enhance foreign exchange earnings for the nation and, simultaneously, generate significant employment. In this context, this paper is attempted to emphasize problem of lack of cleanliness encompassing waste management and littering in Delhi which is capital of India. The main aim of this paper is to seek opinions from one of the important stakeholders, i.e. shopkeepers, based on important parameters of cleanliness as ways to ensure total cleanliness, limitations or constraints towards lack of cleanliness and extent of contribution towards creation of garbage in the various major markets of Delhi, capital of India. This is empirical research paper based on exploratory research. In this paper, purposive sampling method is used to select sample of shopkeepers of the market of 4 regions in Delhi. Three categories of shopkeepers were surveyed through structured questionnaire. First category of shopkeepers surveyed had up to 5 employees. Second category was the ones which had 6-20 employees and the third category of shopkeepers has more than 20 employees. To test the hypothesis that shopkeepers with up to 5 employees, 6-20 employees and more than 20 employees have statistically significant different opinions regarding cleanliness, an independent t- test is performed. After testing hypothesis, it is concluded that the opinion of all three categories of shopkeepers from different markets in Delhi on all parameters, ways to ensure total cleanliness, limitations or constraints towards lack of cleanliness and extent of contribution towards creation of garbage, are not statistically significantly different therefor all the 3 categories of shopkeepers are having consensus. Hence, based on these findings, there is future scope of preparing paper on policy recommendations for cleanliness in Delhi to the state government.
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
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