| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/05/02, 2:09 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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India’s planners worry about ‘jobless growth’, but perhaps nothing illustrates this phenomenon better than a policy of handing over the collection and disposal of the capital’s refuse to large private
corporations, leaving close to 50,000 ragpickers unemployed.
For decades ragpickers provided a service to this city, scavenging waste for recyclable plastic, aluminium, glass and other materials, and earning a livelihood by selling their pickings to contractors with equipment to process the waste into useful items like fibre-reinforced
roofing sheets.
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| Scorpone | Date: Thursday, 2013/05/02, 10:54 PM | Message # 2 | DMCA |
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Doesn't matter what the country is, politicians are busy making deals, destroying lives
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