The second day of Safaikaramcharis strike has turned Jammu city an open garbage dump giving a field day for stray animals and stink in abundance. Going on strike is no offence for the legitimate rights but emptying of garbage bins on the road at mid of the night is something which should call for action on such elements. Most of the city roads, crossings and traffic congested areas are strewn with heaps of garbage and in front of hospitals the medical waste. The city has faced piquant situation earlier also. Of the earliest instances in 1957 when the local Safaikaramchari went on identified strike, the Jammu and Kashmir Government headed by Bakshi Ghulam Mohamad, then Prime Minister was compelled to take a Cabinet decision for arranging a Safaikaramcharis from outside the State and as per the Cabinet decision, people from Gurdaspur, Amritsar (Punjab) were brought to J and K State by providing them free transportation and special permit for entering in to the State. The strike by Safaikaramcharis comes at a time when the much publicised Swachch Bharat campaign launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has completed one year and at the time of launch everyone picked up broom and went on cleaning spree in their best outfits. The campaign which aimed at bringing an awareness to keep the surroundings clean and a better living today looks has lost the direction and momentum and appears to be directionless. People are also no less. There is hardly any civic sense. They have not forgotten their old habits of throwing garbage as and where it is convenient and Safaikaramcharis have carried it forward. Blame the government, blame civic employees, blame people, today Jammu has garbage, stink in the open and in abundance.