The cleanliness army


The New Delhi railway yards are less than a kilometre away from the main station, but none of the hustle or chaos of one of Delhi’s largest transit hubs spills over here. Five young men, dressed in a uniform of fluorescent green T-shirts and jeans, are busy at work in one of the sheds. Wearing gloves and surgical masks, they are segregating trash, with wet waste being collected on one side and dry garbage being piled on another. Sanjay, Mangal, Arjun, Lateef and Safiq are members of the Safai Sena (cleanliness army), an association of waste pickers in Delhi and its environs (aka the National Capital Region). They are employees of the Chintan Material Recovery Facility at the station, a project that arose from a partnership between Chintan, an environmental research and action group, the Safai Sena and Indian Railways. The project aims to manage the garbage that is generated every day at the station. The T-shirts of the boys bear the legend Chintan.........click for more


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