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
National Safai Karmachari Finance & Development Corporation (NSKFDC) has decided to include wastepickers as target group for providing financing and self-development skills. This decision was taken on the direction of Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE). On 1st June, 2016, Ms. Anita Agnihotri, Secretary, MoSJE met the representatives of Alliance of Indian wastepickers, … Continue reading Safai Karmachari Corporation Includes Wastepickers as Target Group, 2nd Major Achievement for the Year 2016
To Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot Honourable Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment Government of India. Subject: Inclusion of wastepickers for the proposed pension programme to be announced on 125th anniversary of Baba Saheb Ambedkar Dear Sir, We acknowledge and are grateful for your ministry’s initiative to include children of wastepickers in the scholarship … Continue reading Include wastepickers for the proposed pension programme
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