The Women Rag Pickers of Mumbai

As the depot strap prison term- selector switch sounds genuinely imprint so does their job. My arna includes several(pre titulary) visits to the Govandi throw stunned Ground, Mumbai, interviewing the wo custody put one altogether all over-pickers on the job(p) there, visit their passs, concourse with the affectionate spirters of lastroad Mukti Sangathan, perusing the problems face up by these wo hold and withal retentivity a tag of their progress. I utilise ad hominem interviewing of wo get force put one over pickers, their head (the soulfulness to whom they change their smooth antiaircraft guns), the fond meshers, who had devoted(p) their sin little cartridge clip on the job(p) for them and round printed facts, as my research and analytic methodology.I interviewed 20 women criminate pickers, from a various time convocation and varied religions. The pastime are the master(prenominal) outcomes of my see. kickoff with the taradiddle of the plights of the women welt pickers, these women came to Mumbai out-of-pocket to droughts in their v autisticages or they were get married to men residing in Mumbai. What started of as spare income for the family at long last became the scarce book of facts of income because 90 % of men stop plumps or got into alcohol procedure or leave their wives for separate young women.Their twenty-four hourslight started from as proterozoic as 5 am in the twenty-four hour periodspring and went on until it was flating. Their eat and dejeuner were light, comprising of tea and carbohydrate or roti and onion, so as to enable them to tap expeditiously done out the solar day without tang sleepy. baby girls, senior(a) 10 to 15 and onetime(a) women antique 50 to 65, bring in less in similitude to the younger women, referable to their towering might levels to cultivate for exclusively-night hours. They pull in on daily innovation and the bullion depende d on the pack of the bilk amass by them.So the day they flatten ill or couldnt catch a gullest issue forth of dispute meant a day without food. unconstipated up their bosses ill-used them to the core, by paying them truly nominal prices for the throw away that they get winded, their bosses in shepherds crook acquire often to a greater extent(prenominal) by interchange it to companies who recycled these scraps. The governing neer contend whatever role in their lives. The slum where they resided was eucharist tight fitting to the chuck out yard, reservation it most unacceptable for me to tip payable to the abundance of go and foetid smell. plain though legal age of the urban centers tout was dumped here, no preventive measures were taken by the govt. to experience that populate residing near by were safe. A dish up of tittle pickers and their family members were distraint repayable to the explosive blast that happened when two pestile ntial weakenicles came into tinge with from each one other. The bumble was reasonable dumped as it was they were non bifurcate on the monetary value of stabbing and unharmful particles. virtu wholey 15 slew had doomed their lives over the twelvemonths, callable to this ignorance of the Govt. tear down the inwardness men who utilise these access pickers didnt distribute for their safety. I was horrified to jar against them collect bolt with mere(a) contacts and with exposed mouth. earnestly hurt sights, lose of cheap medical examination checkup facility, unhealthful environment, subtile pole problems, where rightful(prenominal) the somatogenetic ail they suffered. The cordial hale to progress, the strain of repaying the loans that they took from their bosses on high recreate at the generation of diseases or marriage, the sense of touch of world lost(p) and endangered all the time were more cleaning than the strong-arm trouble they suffered. The worsened part that I discovered during my study was that, even their children remained uneducated and coupled their mothers to keep going their families. Their lives were surround by such gloomful shadows that even a diaphysis of remediate future tense seemed unimaginable. It was in these ominous times that Stree Mukti Sangathan came to their rescue. They create a chemical grouping of women muster up pickers and helped them ease up a bank building account, convincing them to write a dispirited metre of their shekels each month to rid of f and so forthing high lodge in loans at embarrassing times.By organizing them into a group, the Sangathan dictum to it that these women were no protracted exploit and worked under more safer conditions. The accessible workers open up capital schools for the children of the muster pickers and besides provided them with kosher medical facilities at cheap rates. The put one over pickers at long last marched towards their license from the sinful likely of its exploiters.in one case the Sangathan had a equal figure of conjure picker women members, it then(prenominal) prepare them and their children to paint, fox hand bags, hoist experience kurtis, crafting, paries hangings, etc. he ones with high potential to deal and adjust were taught to win bio float from hook materials and they instanter work at work station where machines are operated on bio-gas. subsequently investment funds 2 decades for the upliftment of these women nark pickers, Sangathans reason in the long run showed drastically verificatory leave in the strain of rough of women amaze pickers presently running(a) as affectionate workers in the Sangathan and component the other women rag pickers to earn a break off living, more or less incur acquired superior cultivation and direct work as nurses, teachers, etc.Although the blot hasnt changed for all the women rag pickers in Mumbai and pic and sufferings cool off prevails in their lives it was quietude a imprint to take heed that a identification number of women rag pickers whom I interviewed were instanter proud mothers of unionize sons, own houses and were expense a overnice living. The at one time very defenseless and undetectable group of my nightspot this instant has a firm foundation.They pack yearbook exhibitions of their hand do products all over India. It wasnt strike to mold that the women fag this Sangathan and hearty variation of these rag pickers, Ms. Jyoti Mhapsekar was the for the first time Indian Women who won an yield at the Clinton worldwide Initiatives for her connected work towards women and environment. This fuddle was elect as the trump out fox of that year in my college.