Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2015

CHILD RAGPICKERS IN ALIGARH CITY

Shabnam Parveen

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The term ragpicker refers to people who collect rags or recyclable materials that can be sold to scrap merchant for money (survival). This activity requires no skills and is a source of income for the urban poor. Rag picking involve collecting, sorting and selling of waste materials that are found at the street corners, dumpsites, or in residential areas. The waste materials, primarily consists of paper, plastics, bottles, cardboard, tin, aluminium, iron, ass and copper. Millions of children begin working as ragpickers at the young age of five or six years. In Aligarh city, majority of the ragpickers are between 8 and 12 years old. These children find livelihood opportunities through waste picking. Most of them never attend school and don’t have any formal education. The Majority of child ragpickers migrate from poor, rural and landless homes to urban areas for better jobs in the city area and live in temporary residents. When they do not found any job, choose ragpicking. Most of them don’t have ration cards, identity cards, voter Id, Adhar cards etc. and therefore don’t have access to basic Governmental facilities. Child ragpickers face negative interaction with the police, civil society and criminal gangs. They live in the dark world that teaches them violence and abuse.

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Shabnam Parveen Child Ragpickers in Aligarh City International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 9 September 2015

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