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India’s informal waste workers are climate warriors -- without rights, social protection, or fair pay

September 10, 2025 11:43 am

They have built a decentralised, low-cost circular economy but face displacement, stigma, and policy neglect. Recognising waste pickers is an economic, environmental, and ethical necessity

Unsung heroes: From waste to worth, how Krishna’s journey as a 'wastepreneur' is revolutionising Bengaluru’s garbage control

May 03, 2025 3:22 pm

In 2011, Krishna’s efforts bore fruit when BBMP issued waste picker IDs for the first time in India; he partnered with NGOs like Waste Wise Trust and co-founded Hasiru Dala, a collective that now supports thousands of informal waste workers.

PCMC has outsourced the work of door-to-door waste collection to another agency who in turn employs the waste pickers of KKPKP.

It's early Diwali for waste pickers who took on and won against the richest corporation of Asia

June 28, 2024 9:05 am

The case had its genesis in 2016, when Kagad Kaach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) moved the court of the deputy labour commissioner due to non-payment of minimum wages.

Waste pickers to protest as over 2,500 children deprived of scholarship money for 3 years in Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad

December 03, 2023 6:51 am

All children of waste pickers are eligible for Rs 3,000 under the centrally-sponsored scheme but it has eluded the beneficiaries from 2020

97% sanitation workers, 95% waster-pickers, 82% security guards exposed to air pollution: Study

July 01, 2023 11:13 am

For pollution management, it further suggested that sanitary inspectors should be delegated power to report and fine waste burning and usage of mechanised sweepers on larger arterial roads.

Extracting useful things from waste and making a social impact on the ground

April 28, 2022 4:06 am

In the final part of The Indian Express series on Pune’s garbage crisis, Partha Sarathi Biswas takes a look at some initiatives aimed at safer urban waste disposal

Pune: Waste pickers celebrate 'historic' win, donate Rs 1 lakh for flood-affected

August 18, 2021 10:40 am

The occasion was an "Anand Sohala" to celebrate the monthly wage increase of Rs.5000 that each worker received from the PCMC following a protracted battle for implementing the 2015 Maharashtra Government order for payment of revised minimum wages as per local body wage rates.

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Give us life insurance, compensate for losses during lockdown: Waste-pickers' organisation to Pune civic body

August 03, 2020 11:02 pm

“The waste-pickers have simple demands and they should be met with, considering their service to the city, especially while providing consistent and quality door-step waste collection to citizens during the time of crises and pandemic,” said a statement by the Panchayat.

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Fighting from the bottom, India’s sanitation workers are also frontline workers battling Covid

May 27, 2020 3:38 pm

India's 40 lakh waste pickers in the informal sector and garbage collectors employed by states are at a direct risk of getting infected with coronavirus from handling unmarked medical and contaminated waste.