Corporatization of Garbage ?
Writes VINOD VARSHNEY
The ongoing practice can make anyone depressed in Delhi. Unorganized private hands do the dirtiest part of garbage collection. This is done by aprroximately 150,000 independent ragpickers in Delhi.
The way they do it, is a shame on modern city like Delhi. I have shown this in a couple blogs earlier by way of pictures. It is risky for their health as well. As civilized society can't do much , they just keep on doing this. They don't have any other thing to do as paying as this .
After huge clamour all round for cleaner Delhi over the years, now this job is set to go to companies. Definitely they would do it more efficiently and Delhi may look cleaner in future. However thousands of existing rag-pickers would lose their livelihood. Many of them may be hired by companies at a lesser wage than what they earn today.
The weaker and old may be thrown out of this job altogether as they may neither be hired nor allowed to even go near the garbage dumpsters. Any pension for them who did their bit to clean-up Delhi ? Will begging be the only option before them ? A detailed and well researched story below :
http://www.thestar.com/article/616017
The way they do it, is a shame on modern city like Delhi. I have shown this in a couple blogs earlier by way of pictures. It is risky for their health as well. As civilized society can't do much , they just keep on doing this. They don't have any other thing to do as paying as this .
After huge clamour all round for cleaner Delhi over the years, now this job is set to go to companies. Definitely they would do it more efficiently and Delhi may look cleaner in future. However thousands of existing rag-pickers would lose their livelihood. Many of them may be hired by companies at a lesser wage than what they earn today.
The weaker and old may be thrown out of this job altogether as they may neither be hired nor allowed to even go near the garbage dumpsters. Any pension for them who did their bit to clean-up Delhi ? Will begging be the only option before them ? A detailed and well researched story below :
http://www.thestar.com/article/616017
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