Tag: Demonitization and Informal Economy in India

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2016 A Benchmark Year for Wastepickers

  2016 has been quite a remarkable year and will be remembered as a benchmark period in the struggle of wastepickers for recognition. This year for the first time, updated solid and plastic waste management rules notified by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) prescribed integration of wastepickers and informal waste collectors in … Continue reading 2016 A Benchmark Year for Wastepickers

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On Demonetization and Its Impact on Bangalore’s Waste pickers and Recyclers

Shreyas Sreenath Important as are the standard measures of a community…its measure of value is by far the most important of them all. The measures of weight, extension, or volume enter only into particular transactions…but the measure of value is all pervading…the conservation of the contractual basis of society then becomes tantamount to the conservation … Continue reading On Demonetization and Its Impact on Bangalore’s Waste pickers and Recyclers