Pune Garbage

A rag-picker found a newborn girl inside a garbage bin in Vishrantwadi area of Pune district, an official said on Friday.

It was another reeking morning for millions of Pune residents with piles of uncollected garbage continuing to litter their city - as it has for the last two weeks since villagers near the main landfill refused to let their homes become a dumping ground.

Two days after the demonetisation of high-value notes, a rag picker in Pune came across a bag full of Rs 1,000 notes today, summing up to Rs 52,000.

Suman More's life has been a rags-to-recognition journey. As an illiterate, impoverished ragpicker from Pune, the 50-year-old could never have imagined that she would one day be the centre of attention at a conference held all the way in Geneva by the International Labour Organisation. Just the past fortnight, over 2,000 experts from all over the w...

As if stinking toilets, unpicked garbage, cramped quarters, a lack of drinking water and non-existent security were not horrors enough for residents of the Government Boys' Hostel in Kasarwadi, the cooks at the hostel have now run away. This has left the boys living in the hostel starving for four days now.

A day-old infant girl was found abandoned at a garbage dump in the cantonment area on the outskirts of Pune city, police said on Saturday."A man, Dinkal Bhalekar came to the police station and told us he has seen a baby in the garbage dump. A team of policemen went there and found a day-old baby girl," said an official from the Dehu Road Police Sta...

Women will soon be driving garbage collection vans and visiting houses of 54 wards in the Pimpri-Chinchwad area to collect waste. The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) and Solid Waste Collection and Handling (SWaCH), an NGO, have signed a memorandum of understanding in this regard. About 47 women completed their month-long training in d...

A rag-picker found a newborn girl inside a garbage bin in Vishrantwadi area of Pune district, an official said on Friday.

It was another reeking morning for millions of Pune residents with piles of uncollected garbage continuing to litter their city - as it has for the last two weeks since villagers near the main landfill refused to let their homes become a dumping ground.

Two days after the demonetisation of high-value notes, a rag picker in Pune came across a bag full of Rs 1,000 notes today, summing up to Rs 52,000.

Suman More's life has been a rags-to-recognition journey. As an illiterate, impoverished ragpicker from Pune, the 50-year-old could never have imagined that she would one day be the centre of attention at a conference held all the way in Geneva by the International Labour Organisation. Just the past fortnight, over 2,000 experts from all over the w...

As if stinking toilets, unpicked garbage, cramped quarters, a lack of drinking water and non-existent security were not horrors enough for residents of the Government Boys' Hostel in Kasarwadi, the cooks at the hostel have now run away. This has left the boys living in the hostel starving for four days now.

A day-old infant girl was found abandoned at a garbage dump in the cantonment area on the outskirts of Pune city, police said on Saturday."A man, Dinkal Bhalekar came to the police station and told us he has seen a baby in the garbage dump. A team of policemen went there and found a day-old baby girl," said an official from the Dehu Road Police Sta...

Women will soon be driving garbage collection vans and visiting houses of 54 wards in the Pimpri-Chinchwad area to collect waste. The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) and Solid Waste Collection and Handling (SWaCH), an NGO, have signed a memorandum of understanding in this regard. About 47 women completed their month-long training in d...