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Despite their key role in the waste value chain ecosystem, waste pickers face systemic marginalisation, severe health hazards and exclusion from legal protection This editorial was published in the hindu March 1, International Waste Pickers Day 1  waste pickers across the world will pay homage श्रद्धा  to fellow साथी  pickers who were murdered in Colombia in 1992.  2 इनका महत्व  The world of the informal waste picker,— who is an  🍁often-forgotten,  🍁hyper-marginalised worker cohort in the waste value chain ecosystem,  🍁and an indispensable अपरिहार्य  but invisible part of waste management systems in India — needs to be understood. 3 The International Labour Organization defines the informal sector in waste management as ‘individuals or small and micro-enterprises that intervene in waste management without being registered and without being formally charged with providing waste management services’. 4 इनका  काम क्या है...

भारत के बच्चों में निवेश का आर्थिक मामला There needs to be increased investment in early childhood care and education क्यों जरूरी ? It might seem self-evident that India’s children deserve economic investment, seeing the country’s focus on demographic dividend, education and jobs. But, early childhood education   1  has remained both under-invested and under-explored over decades. 2  It is often trivialised महत्वहीन समझना  , as child’s play, or limited to the household domain, perhaps because it has traditionally been women’s work. 3  With the increasing focus by the government on women-led development,  including a new survey by the Ministries of Women and Child Development and Labour (announced on January 30) on working women,  care work and early childhood are finally being seen as part of the critical work of running a country. Focus earlier in the life cycle  investment in early childhood care and education (ECCE) is a basic one —  1...