Photo Exhibition and Seminar on Waste-Pick by AMAN Trust at Annexe Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 11am-7pm on 14th-18th June 2012

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Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm


Entry : Free
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Place : Art Gallery, Annexe Building, India International Centre ( IIC ), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
Landmark : Annexe Building is Next to Alliance Francaise 
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Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Details : Photo Exhibition and Seminar on Waste-Pick by AMAN Trust.
Date of Seminar    : 14th June, 2012.
Date of Exhibition : 15th-18th June, 2012
Name of Photographer: Kausiki Sarma

Objective:
The objective of the seminar and exhibition is as follows:
1.    To advocate and sensitize the members of the civil society, government, political parties and individuals, media and the larger public of the sub-standard and sometimes inhuman living conditions of the waste pickers in Delhi. They constitute a population of over 3 lakhs and constitute a large section of informal labour of Delhi.                 
2.    To highlight the occupational hazards experienced by the waste-pickers, like extremely unhygienic and dismal working conditions and the impact of this on their health. Many of them suffer from respiratory and gastro-intestinal ailments.
3.    To expose the regular harassment and extortion the waste-pickers face from both the police and the municipal authorities and how they are deprived of basic civic and fundamental rights.
4.    To debate the move by the Delhi government to privatize waste picking and the setting up of the proposed waste-to-energy incinerators in the Delhi. Waste-pickers believe that this move threatens their livelihood as it will lead to unemployment and displacement.
5.    To highlight the large numbers of child labourers who earn their livelihood through waste-picking. As a result they are not only deprived of education but also are highly vulnerable to all kinds of illnesses associated with unhygienic conditions of waste-picking.
6.    To make recommendations and suggestions to the Delhi government to improve social-economic and working conditions of waste-pickers with full-respect to their civic and human rights.


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