Pimpri-Chinchwad waste pickers win minimum wage battle
The members of Kagad, Kach, Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) – wastepickers have been providing waste management services to the residents of Pimpri Chinchwad for years now. Th...
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Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers’ National Workshop, 2015
Background The Alliance of Indian Wastepickers (AIW) is a national network coalition of membership based organizations working on organizing informal waste workers for ensuring the...
KKPKP waste pickers win a minimum wage, ID cards and life insurance
The three hundred waste picker members of Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) engaged by the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation have won a hard fought battle for Mini...
Waste pickers in India demand freedom from unfair contracts
The PCMC has appointed 300 waste pickers for door to door collection of waste through labour supply contractors. As per law, it is mandatory to pay such workers minimum wages presc...
Waste pickers matter in India’s cleanliness campaign
As part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, a national campaign in India to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country, Chintan along with Safai Sena, an association of waste...
Food security for waste pickers and enrollment in Delhi’s electoral lists
Greetings from KKU! I am glad to inform you all that Sajag/Kachra Kamgar Union (KKU) has conducted a very successful campaign for enrollment of rag-pickers to the electoral rolls of Delhi and also facilitated their applications for ration-cards under recently passed Food Security Act.
The Occupational Health of Waste Pickers in Pune
This report from the union of waste pickers, KKPKP, in Pune, India details the interventions of the union to improve the health of their members, including the setting up of a municipally funded health insurance scheme, health advocacy and the use of trust hospitals.
SWaCH: Five Years and Counting
Through this latest 12-page issue of the newsletter, SWaCH shares the journey it has been on since it was founded five years ago – the excitement, the anxieties, successes and new ideas that have emerged for making Pune a better city for all in the years to come.
An update from waste pickers in Bangalore
An update from Hasiru Dala, a member-based organisation of waste pickers seeking to improve our conditions of work and ensuring continued access to recyclables in the city of Bangalore. Hasiru Dala works towards accessing the benefits of various government programs to which waste pickers are entitled, enhancing educational opportunities for their children and advancing the quality of their lives.
Draft MSW Rules 2013 are a missed opportunity
On August 28th, 2013, the Ministry of Environment and Forests released the draft MSW Rules 2013 for public comments. These draft Rules are updating the original landmark Rules passed in 2000. Thirteen years later, we have learnt a lot about how to manage solid waste management programs that can clean our cities, provide jobs, and help reduce our burden on the environment. But these draft Rules have missed this incredible opportunity to apply the lessons we have learnt thus far.
SWaCH: Waste pickers divert 97 tons of festival offerings from the city’s rivers
125 wastepickers, with the support of 400 volunteers diverted over 97 tonnes of nirmalya — offerings from this Ganapati festival — from the city’s rivers!!
AIKMM Petition: Integrate waste pickers in solid waste management systems in India
Working very hard in most unfavorable and hazardous conditions, they are the sole player in reducing carbon emission by saving remarkable amount of energy and ensuring recycling and reuse of major portion of the garbage. Their role is not only to serve the environment they are also playing key role to support the executing bodies in saving a huge part of revenue and reducing the carbon emission. Sign the petition here.
“India’s rag-pickers inspire recycling charity” (BBC News India)
India – 18 Feb 2012 – The bell indicates the end of another day at the Church Park School in the southern city of Chennai. The students stream out of the classrooms, ea...
“A Decent Life Is the Train That Hasn’t Hit You” (Slate)
India – 6 Feb 2012 – Katherine Boo, a Pulitzer-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer, has many ways of illuminating the people she writes about. The most impor...
“City of Lost Children” (Wall Street Journal)
India – 4 Feb 2012 – Katherine Boo has made a career out of being invisible. In articles about welfare, teenage pregnancy and unemployment in urban America, she achieve...
“Now get Rs 2 per kg of dry waste” (IBN Live)
India – 3 Feb 2012 – BANGALORE: Next time when you throw dry waste outside, think twice. Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will pay you `2 per kilo of dry waste...
“Garbage pickers threatened by rubbish-fuelled power plants in India” (ABC Radio Australia)
India – 23 Jan 2012 In India, thousands of poor garbage pickers are having their livelihoods threatened by plans to build three rubbish-fuelled power plants in the capital. P...