Shalaka is a social designer by practice. Associated with Delhi Roundtable on Solid Waste Management, a city-level platform of organizations working with waste pickers of Delhi-NCR
Living next to Delhi’s trash mountain: Policies should focus on easing the struggles of waste pickers
These workers have no feasible access to social infrastructure such as schools, hospitals and, most importantly waste sorting centres
COVID-19: What it is to ‘work from home’ for women waste-pickers
Most housing units in Bhalaswa village have not been upgraded to support informal waste work. This impacts women’s productivity, …