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Governance

How good governance can transform a city: The tale of Surat

January 25, 2021 Darshan Desai

Visitors to today’s swanky Surat would find it difficult to imagine what the city was like when plague struck in 1994.

Society

Making waste pickers’ lives better: An experience from Hyderabad

September 14, 2020 Laxmi Vadapalli

A project aimed at providing alternative occupations for waste pickers in an industrial estate in Hyderabad holds important lessons. What would really make their lives better?

Waste Management

COVID-19 aftermath: Delhi’s ignored waste pickers need immediate protection

September 3, 2020 Avi Majithia and Malavika Narayan

Informal waste pickers in Delhi protect the city’s environment and public health. Today, as they face a dire situation in the aftermath of the pandemic, here’s what the government must do for them.

Waste Management

How Gurugram is managing biomedical waste from residential communities in the time of COVID-19

June 26, 2020 Monika Khanna Gulati

Despite the guidelines from CPCB, management of biomedical waste is proving to be tough on the ground at several levels. Some suggestions for Gurugram

Waste inventory: Plastic constitutes a major portion of dry waste component in any city.
Waste Management

How Swacchata ‘didis’, ward committees and local volunteers in small towns are showing the way to waste management during COVID-19

May 6, 2020 Swati Singh Sambyal

Decentralisation is the most effective way to manage waste, even in a health crisis such as the present. Towns like Panchgani and Ambikapur are setting examples for all.

Economy

Why many migrant waste-pickers stayed back in Srinagar despite fears and uncertainty

December 11, 2019 Abid Bashir Wani

Hospitable, caring and offering opportunities for a decent living — that is how most of them see the city. Thus, despite the tension and reports of attacks on non-Kashmiris in the days following the abrogation of Article 370, they decided to stay put. And they have not regretted it.

Civic

Inside Dehradun’s Bindal slum, where the city’s waste pickers live

June 11, 2019 Rishabh Shrivastava

Despite the crucial role they play in the city, efforts to improve the living conditions of Dehradun’s waste pickers — mostly migrants — have been minimal and they continue to live in unsafe conditions, with little or no assistance from the Municipal Corporation.

Waste Management

Beat plastic: Yes, but how?

June 16, 2018 Garima Prasher

Despite rules and bans in place, attempts to beat plastic use and pollution in our cities have been hardly effective. Experts weigh in on what could be done to change that.

Waste Management

Living on the edge: A photo-essay on Bengaluru’s migrant waste pickers

May 10, 2017 Kavya Michael

A vivid picture of the destitution and rights-deprivation that members of the city’s migrant waste-picking community are doomed to.


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