New Delhi: For Nagma, summer means sleepless nights, lost wages, missed classes for her children and illness. By 8 in the morning, the sun starts beating down on the roof of the one-room house she rents in Sundar Nagri. Located on the fourth floor, the room traps heat throughout the day and remains stifling even…
S Valli and her husband are one of several thousand homeless in Chennai, who live under bridges and flyovers; most are either street performers or guest workers Muskaan.Ahmed@timesofindia.comEvery few minutes, a train rattles past Velachery railway station as passing vehicles kick up clouds of dust into S Valli’s “home”. The 40-year-old lives under the flyover…
Pune: A waste pickers’ union has demanded that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) provide their workers with life cover and include them in the health scheme offered to the civic staff.The union on Friday wrote a letter to the civic body raising the demand following the death of a waste picker in an accident while…
