Write a paragraph on Rag pickers (250 words )
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The rag picker, with a gunny bag on his shoulder is a universal pitiable figure in all the metropolitan cities in India. One can find a Ramanna in Chennai, a Ramnath in Delhi, an Edward in Cochin, a Karim in Kanpur, and Balu in Chandigarh dressed in shabby clothes moving in the lanes and by lanes of these beautiful cities. The rag picker, a dirty boy, moves with a small stick to shoo off the street dogs. None sympathizes with him. No one takes a pity on him. He is rather a hateful sight in the posh localities of New Delhi and Mumbai for the collects dirty rags from heaps and mounds of rubbish.
The rag picker, generally below teens, is no one’s child. He might have come from a remote village. He might have been abandoned by his parents. He may be working under a slum mafia who has provided a roof to him to sleep. But in many cases he is an orphan who sells his rags in the evening for rupees ten to twenty and after meals sleeps anywhere in the open.
Like animals a rag picker braves the scorching heat of the summer or shivering cold of the winter. He can’t complain to anyone. None would listen to his crying heart. When the children in posh localities would sleep comfortably on foam cushions with their pets dog the rag picker would embrace the street dog to find some warmth in the cold night. His childhood has been snatched away from him by the apathetic society. The rice or chapatti hawker at the street comer is his only friend who would provide him food for a few rupees. Dirty unbathed body, dirty clothes, dirty rags, dirty chapattis and dirty dishes is his whole world.
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A number of individuals across the globe work as scrap and waste collectors. They earn their livelihood from the collection and sale of paper, plastic, metal and glass scrap to recycling industries. These people are known as rag pickers.
Most of the children who work as a rag picker, start working at the young age of five or six years. Most of them have never been to school. Their families are, in general, below the poverty line, and they want to make some extra money from their children. Children varying from age five to fifteen, who do not have any other skill to earn money, generally do this work. These people live in slum areas across the cities.
Every year, tonnes of waste is generated from the houses and factories. Rag pickers play an important role in recycling the waste. Even after being so useful to the society, these people don't get enough food and hygienic livelihood. They work and live in hazardous environment. They get easily affected by numerous diseases like pneumonia, malaria, etc.
For the good of rag pickers, public awareness needs to be started. The education must contain good human values, and it should teach the students to be humble towards rag pickers and everyone. There are often news like rag picker had been beaten due to the doubt of theft. NGOs are doing their share of improving the lives of rag pickers by setting up homes and giving knowledge about hygienic life. The people must donate funds, considering it their social duty.
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