[Reader-list] Include wastepickers for the proposed pension programme

[Kabir Khan]

Include wastepickers for the proposed pension programme
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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 programme instituted for the
educational support given to ‘children of parents in unclean occupation’.
Recently, we came to know that ministry is planning to launch an occupation
based pension programme.

This letter is in regards to the same proposed occupation based pension
programme for *Safai Karmacharis *to be launched by your ministry, for the
celebration of 125th anniversary of Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar. We, the
members of Alliance of Indian Wastepickers, request you to include
wastepickers in the given pension programme. There are more than 25 lakh
wastepickers in India. Wastepickers belong to one of most the disadvantaged
economic and social groups and are discriminated on the basis of caste,
class and occupation. They play an important role in keeping our cities
clean and according to varying estimates they send around 10,000 -100,000
Metric Tons of dry waste for recycling. For acknowledging the role played
by wastepickers, Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan and relevant waste management
guidelines and rules i.e. Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 & Plastic
Waste Management Rules, 2016 have suggested their inclusion in waste
management. Continued here...
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