March 26, 2021
This workforce is trained to collect and recycle
Now I earn Rs 15,000 per month.Ms Jaain specialises in training labourers, waste
pickers, beggars and jobless transgenders for the job of collection and waste
recycling."But there are a few good ward officers and additional commissioners
who help me and allotted a land in JVPD at the corner of Road 7," she said. She
added that if she could not control the bad odour, residents from this posh area
would not allow her to conduct this business.. Laxmi, a 70-year-old woman at Ms
Jaain’s depot said, "I was a beggar, Ms Jaain picked me and China cosmetic bottle offered a job with
her. Working on no profit-no loss, Ms Jaain’s Geetanjali Envirotech has given
employment to more than 150 to 200 former beggars who are earning at least Rs
15,000 per month.
This workforce is trained to collect and recycle the plastic
and green waste by itself. It’s the first Private-Public Partnership model in
India in waste management supported by K-West Ward of MCGM."Initially, nobody
was ready to allow me as collecting waste and dump it at specific allotted area
is the work allotted to some contractors and the contractors was not ready to
allow me to interfere in their ‘business’" said Ms Jaain. All collections are
done by waste pickers and sweepers.Though Ms Jaain’s depot is huge and one can
see women in the campus segregating the wastage into wet and dry, one can’t feel
the bad odour associated with wastage.At the JVPD depot, the green waste is
converted into organic manure in specially designed bio-bins and bio-degradable
waste is converted into eco-friendly organic compost. "You may understand the
power of contractor lobby," she said." Ms Jaain and her company functions on the
m,oney that they earn from selling compost to both companies and individuals. Ms
Jaain said she had developed her own special chemical, after research and
development, in order to control the odour. Ms Jaain had started plastic waste
collection, segregation and recycling in the plush area of Juhu Vile-Parle
Development (JVPD) in 2003. According to Ms Jaain, after moving to Mumbai in
2003, she saw solid waste and nullah full of plastic waste in plush area of
JVPD, and approached ‘K’ ward officer of BMC in 2003 and asked for permission to
collect waste.Raaginii Jaain has been campaigning for cleanliness drive from
long before the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched. Originally from Varanasi in
Uttar Pradesh, Ms Jaain (57) later shifted to Bengaluru and then Mumbai during
the course of her career
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