If this is Development Area, what must under-developed areas look like?

It must take a very dark sense of humour to continue referring to this embarrassment as a part of Gangtok’s Development Area, but in the absence of a civic sensibility, black comedy will have to do. These images are of the stairs running up from Development Area to Zero Point. The flaked paint on the signboard tries to say something about how dumping “here” was a punishable offence.
This photo has been shared by a reader who moved to Development Area recently and understandably does not wished to be named.

If you have some photographs of forgotten waste management in Gangtok, mail them to us at newsforsikkim.gmail.com and we will post them here to share, wonder and sympathise with..