[Reader-list] 2016 A Benchmark Year for Wastepickers

[Kabir Khan]

2016 A Benchmark Year for Wastepickers
<https://wastenarratives.com/2016/12/28/2016-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
<https://wastenarratives.com/2016/04/23/revised-solid-waste-management-rules-mandate-inclusion-of-wastepickers/>
and plastic
<https://wastenarratives.com/2016/03/28/envisioning-better-implementation-of-plastic-waste-management-rules-2016/>
waste management rules notified by Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change (MoEFCC) prescribed integration of wastepickers and informal
waste collectors in solid waste management in clear and precise terms. To
do so Municipal corporations are mandated to issue occupational identity
(ID) cards to wastepickers and informal waste workers. Since past few days,
the news of issuance of occupational ID cards in some or the other city is
flowing in our inboxes. In preceding months and weeks, cities like Mysore,
Tumkur
<https://wastenarratives.com/2016/12/21/vijaywada-municipal-corporation-issues-occupational-identity-cards-to-wastepickers/>,
Indore
<https://wastenarratives.com/2016/12/15/indore-municipal-corporation-issues-occupational-identity-cards-to-wastepickers/>,
Panvel, Vishakhapatnam
<http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/Swachh-Mission-GVMC-to-deploy-rag-pickers/article16946997.ece>,
Vijaywada
<https://wastenarratives.com/2016/12/21/vijaywada-municipal-corporation-issues-occupational-identity-cards-to-wastepickers/>
have all issued ID cards to wastepickers. Taking it further, in recently
issued guidelines for Swachh Bharat Survekshan, 2017 (Clean Indian Survey,
2017) by Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) upto 29 marks have been
allotted and will be given to municipal corporations for identifying,
enumerating and integrating wastepickers in waste management of 70 percent
of its wards and by issuing occupational ID cards. Thus, many cities have
already issued cards, some are in the process of doing so. A special thanks
to Mr. Harshad Barde, from Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP)
who represented wastepickers organizations in the committee set up to
discuss and frame the waste management rules by MoEFCC and ensured the
inclusionary provisions such as the ones like ID cards for wastepickers are
included. Continued here...
<https://wastenarratives.com/2016/12/28/2016-a-benchmark-year-for-wastepickers/>
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