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Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
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Chintan’s mission is to facilitate the participation of citizens in the empowerment of their communities and to advocate for local and national policies that ensure social equity and environmental safeguarding.
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- Provides the kabari (junk dealers) with recycling licenses.
- Halts the capital intensive privatization of municipal solid waste.
- Protects the informal waste recycling sector by amending the Municipal Solid Waste Rules.
- Provides informal and formal education opportunities for children that enable them to successfully transition from child laborers to full time students who have equal opportunities in life. Chintan runs four learning centers in Delhi, reaching out to about 300 children associated with waste picking. Many of the children have joined mainstream schools in the last two years.
- Chintan recently signed a new contract with New Delhi Municipal Council for waste collection in over 50,000 households which will be operated by a collective of local wastepickers.
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Chintan publishes press releases, available on its website.
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Read Mackenzie's blog. Read Paul's blog.
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- Home Page Features
Privatizating Waste Collection Puts India's Waste-Pickers at a Disadvantage (April 3, 2008)
August 7, 2008
The Wastepickers of Delhi
Institute for Policy Studies
July 2008
The Wastepickers of Delhi
Mother Jones
January 2008
Why Waste a Chance? (by Bharati Chaturvedi, Director of Chintan)
Down to Earth
November 15, 2007
India's Ragpickers: Scavenger Hunt
The Economist
September 27, 2007
Picking Up Trash by Hand, and Yearning for Dignity
The New York Times
For more, visit Chintan's website.
- The Alliance for Waste Management
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- The International POPs Elimination Network
- The National Campaign for the Unorganized Sector
- Sanhja Manch- a forum of grassroots groups and individuals working with the urban poor in Delhi
- Environmental Education: Chintan has been able to impact policy shifts. One example is the inclusion of wastepickers in the National Environmental Policy 2006.
Contact:
238 Sidhartha Enclave
New Delhi - 110014
Tel:+91-11-46574171, 46574172, 46574173
Fax:+91-11-46574174
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