Rag-pickers to collect garbage

October 07, 2017 12:54 am | Updated 12:54 am IST - VISAKHAPATNAM

Making rag-pickers part of the cleanliness campaign 500 of them will be involved in collection of door-to-door collection of domestic waste, Municipal Commissioner M. Hari Narayanan has said.

At a review of welfare and rehabilitation of rag-pickers, the Commissioner said here on Friday that on an experimental basis their services would be used deploying them in teams of two each.

Chief Medical Officer (Health) A. Hemanth and UCD Project Director D. Srinivasan participated.

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