STREE MUKTI SANGHATANA A LEADING WOMEN’S ORGANISATION
ESTD. IN 1975 IN MUMBAI
FOR THE UPLIFTMENT OF
SOCIETY IN GENERAL AND
WOMEN IN PARTICULAR
ACCREDITATION WITH
ECOSOC ( UN)
Parisar Vikas
Human Face of Solid Waste Management
Who is waste picker?
• Women or children engaged in ‘illegal’
work
• Migrants from traditionally backward caste in some regions (Mahar, neo-Buddhists, Matang,Chambhar from Marathwada ,Tamilnadu and Karnataka)
• known only by her sack and rod in hand to pick up her dry waste and to protect herself from animals like rats, dogs and ……
• Looked down as thief or nuisance by Municipal workers and Citizens
• Migrant women who tend towards this low-paying, low investment work
• No fixed hours, N0 investment
• Anonymous,
• lack of documents and lack of awareness of processes.
• Most difficult to organise
.
The SWM Pyramid
Recyclers
Wholesalers
Waste traders
Waste sorters 2
Waste sorters 1
Waste pickers
Why Our Intervention
High Impact on Environment
Socially/Economically Marginalized
Caste/Gender Humanitarian
Economics WASTE IS WEALTH
Environment
Waste Pickers
BPL
AGE GROUP DATA
0
20
40
60
80
AG
E I
N Y
EA
RS
7 TO 70
YEARS
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
WOMEN MEN CHILDREN
PE
RC
EN
TA
GE
85% 10% 5%
COMPOSITION
ANEMIC UNDERWEIGHT
ILLNESSES
HEALTH SURVEY DATA
95.3% ANEMIC 66.7 % UNDERWEIGHT
Musculoskeletal problems:
19.6%
Fever : 18%
Respiratory Infections : 9.7%
Leucorrhoea: 6.5%
Menstrual irregularities: 5.9%
• Training waste pickers in Microfinance and Leadership
• Alternate skills like composting, Bio-methanation, Fine sorting
• Negotiating with middle men
• Health awareness
• Literacy
Organization’s role
• 5000 women are organized in 5 cities in 500 self help groups.
• Self help groups are bound into federations
• Parisar Bhagini Vikas Sangha
• 10 cooperatives have been formed
( 30-50 women each) to secure contracts
Organizational structure
Parisar Bhagini Vikas Sangha (PBVS) Founded in 2004
Stree Mukti Sanghatnana – Organisation Tree
Stree Mukti Sanghatana (SMS) founded in 1975
Co-operative Societies
Activities: theatre, family counselling centers, day care centers, adolescent programs, campaigns for women’s rights Started working for waste picker women in 1998.
A microfinance federation of Self Help Groups (for waste picker women) facilitated by SMS.
Gives financial assistance for education, health, housing, etc. Runs two canteens and five scrap shops through its members
PBVS has 10 cooperative societies. Undertake work in composting, biogas plant operation, gardening and housekeeping on a contract basis
Amla Work Areas: Chembur, Colaba, Trombay
Yashodhara Work Areas: Chembur, BRC
Vasundhara Work Areas: Mulund, Andheri, SEPZ
Ramai Work Areas: Andheri
Bhimai Work Areas: Thane
Muktai Work Areas: Chembur
Chaitanya Work Areas: Thane
Savitribaiphulle Work Areas: Chembur (compost basket manufacturing)
Priyadarshini Work Areas: Chembur
No. 10 Work Areas:
• Securing of work contracts
• Running of scrap shops
Providing
• Educational and Health facilities for them and their children
• Group Insurance
• Inclusion of waste pickers as special group in PDS (antyoday)
Organization’s role
Organization’s role
• Interface with Municipal Corporations
Access to resources
• Household survey of these women for BPL status and their inclusion (200 groups and 2000 women so far) under SJSRY Permission for issuing of identity cards
• Grant of Rs.10,000/- to each group as running capital to start their micro enterprises
Organization’s role • Formation of federation of groups known
as Parisar Bhagini Vikas Sangha (PBVS). Registration of the federation under Charitable Trusts Act and recognition of the PBVS as a Community Development Society.
• Provision of a tempo-vehicles for collection of dry waste and inclusion of Parisar Bhaginis in such schemes in five- municipal wards
• Recognition to SMS as the training Institute for waste pickers
Organization’s role • Vocational training of women under SJSRY
• Under infrastructure development of SJSRY, sanction to construct sheds in five wards for storage of dry waste which will operate on Cooperative basis under the aegis of PBVS
• Approval of design submitted by SMS for the composting of wet waste in pits measuring 5’x 3’x 2’
Mumbai (11 Comunities) Govandi – Gautamnagar, Rafiqnagar, Ramanmama Mankhurd – Sathenagar Chembur – Anandnagar, Pestomsagar, Amarmahal, Shramajeevinagar Sion – Prateeksha Kanjurmarg Powai
Navi Mumbai (9 Communities) Vashi , Nerul, Digha, Turbhe, Thane Belapur Road
Thane (2 Communities) Waghle Estate (Sathenagar) Vartaknagar (Bhimnagar)
Dombivili (2 Communities) Jyotinagar, Siddarthnagar
Rally in March 2010
AIW efforts : Policy
Urban development
A circular from the central to the state government issued on 20th March 2010 highlighting the contribution of wastepickers to cities and specifically advised how to support wastepickers .
AIW efforts : Policy
Environment
A committee has been formed with an AIW member on the committee . The role of the committee is to examine the role of wastepickers in municipal solid waste management and suggest necessary amendments to the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handing) Rule, 2000
Glass Metal Green Plastic landfill
Contribution of waste pickers to the city
Reduction in Waste Handling
Reduction in transport costs
Supply of raw material to Recycling factories
Saving space at Dumping Ground
Resource recovery in form of valuable compost
Conservation of environment
SEGREGATED WASTE
HOUSE WIFE
HOUSE ASSISTANT
SOCIETY SWEEPER
WATCHMAN
MUNICIPAL WORKER
WASTE PICKER
Our vision for solid waste management and climate change •Decentralised •Low Cost •Energy Efficient •Labour Friendly •High resource recovery •Environmentally sound •Sustainable
Business Models developed
by SMS 600 women are working at various 190 locations through their respective Cooperatives •Model 1 Women are involved in house to house collection of waste and fine segregation, processing of waste and recycling of dry waste •Model 2 Collection of Non medical waste from hospitals •Model 3 Collection of dry waste from Malls
• Lack of awareness amongst general public
• Apathy towards poor
• Not in my back yard (NIMBY) attitude
• Out of site out of mind
• Reluctance for segregation at source
• Promotion of wastepicking?
The Hurdles at the Societal
Level
Business Models developed
by SMS •Model 4 Maintenance of Biogas plants
Model 5 Collection of Post consumer tetra Pak Cartons and sending them to recycler Model 6 Collection of dry waste from Special Economic zone and disposal
Business Models developed
By SMS
Model 7 Collection of dry waste from Corporates and providing them recycled paper Model 8 Collection of dry waste with Municipal vehicle Model 9 Collection of waste from school and college campuses
• Independent Self Employed Workers to service providers.
• Steady Income
• Fixed Hours Health Care
• Compulsory Saving
INTEGRATION OF WASTE PICKERS INTO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
RecyclingShed
House to house collection
Composting
100% recycled giveaways… scribble pads, note books, bags, napkins…
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To realize ‘Zero Waste’ situation, Parisar Vikas has trained poor women who are called Trained Parisar Bhaginis. They are trained in waste handling, collection, transportation, dry waste segregation, compost pit management, biogas plant management and gardening
Anaerobic digester
Thermophilic Aerobic digester
Recycle
water tank
Methane utilization
Methane holder
Manure pits
Platform
Mixer Solar heater
Compressor
Compressor Gas blower
Gas meter
Weighing Scale
Fly repellent lamp
Gas balloon (O)
Water removal chambers
Manure utilization Methane recycler
2010
Aeration grid
Biogas Plants
Output- Biogas and Manure
• Suitable for larger quantities of organic waste • Plant Capacity can rang from 100- 5000Kg/day •Output – Biogas (useful for cooking) and Manure •Larger plants (>2000 Kgs perday) can also be used • to generate electricity Construction of the plant Utilization of gas and manure Operation and Maintenance of the units
O & M of 7 Plants BARC, Tata Power, TISS, TIFR, Shatabdi Hospital
100 Kg Biogas Plant at TISS
• Illiteracy
• Poverty-double duty
• Lack of work culture
• Distance between home and work
place
• Availability of waste on the streets
• Low income
• Gender bias and gender stereo types within the recycling industry
The Hurdles at the waste
picker level
• Vested interests in transport of waste
• Threat from privatization of waste management.
• Preference for Centralized Waste Management – high on technological solutions while ignoring human interest
• Promotion of highly hazardous and environmentally-unfriendly incineration technologies
The Macro Hurdle at the
Policy Level
Future Plans
• Greater visibility within the urban poor and informal workers sector
• Social security for the aged and vulnerable waste pickers and their family
• Accessing benefits under various existing schemes for Pension, education, health etc., schemes for the migrant, illiterate citizens of the city
• School admissions under RTE
• Benefits at private and
Government hospitals
• Social security schemes for the
aged, disabled, widows.
• Empower waste pickers’ federation and cooperatives to become economically independent and self-sustaining
• Restriction of the role of SMS as trainer, advisor and facilitator
• The constant Endeavour would be to mainstream waste pickers into the larger SWM cycle
Thanks Jyoti Mhapsekar Stree Mukti Sanghatana
Parisar Vikas
www.streemuktisanghatana.org
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