MCDS engage waste pickers formally, issue ID cards

NEW DELHI : The municipal corporations in Delhi have started formally engaging waste pickers on a pilot basis.

Thousands of waste pickers segregate waste at landfills for recycling in Delhi and are usually the only stakeholders who are engaged in the activity in an organised manner. But, despite the important role they play in waste management, they are kept out of most of the plans made for garbage management.

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has engaged some of them on a pilot basis in Sunder Nagar, RK Puram and Dwarka.

want waste pickers, scrap dealers to be included in the collection and recycling of waste

“These waste pickers are working in the supervision of NGOS or RWAS. A policy for regulating these people would be formed only after the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 are notified by Delhi government,” said a senior South Corporation official.

The South and East Delhi Municipal Corporations claim to have collected information about 1,000 waste pickers with the help of RWAS and issued identity cards to some of them.

On Tuesday, the Delhi High Court told the Delhi government to send the new municipal waste by-laws to Lieutenant Governor (LG) Anil Baijal for immediate notification.

The EDMC has given identity

have no access to a dhalao (garbage bin) in North Delhi

cards to around 200 waste pickers. As per officials, they had been collecting household waste in various areas for a long time.

“We have asked for a copy of their Aadhar card/voter ID for verification. We will ensure that they are engaged once the solid waste management rules, 2016 are notified,” said EDMC official.

The waste pickers will be provided space for segregating garbage.

“They will be allowed to sell the plastic or other recyclable waste segregated from garbage,” said the official.

“It’s a good start. But we are not aware about the development,” said Bharti Chaturvedi, founder, Chintan NGO.

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