While Delhi is turning its back on its ragpickers by contracting out its solid waste management to the private sector, the city of Pune has successfully integrated its ragpickers into a formal workforce, through a collaboration with India's first worker-owned waste collectors' cooperative, SWaCH.
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In essence, the municipality has opted to further marginalise its vulnerable ... rather than integrating these seasoned waste collectors into its formal system.
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