A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS AMONG WOMEN RAG-PICKERS IN THE MARATHWADA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA STATE
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Research Area
Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Keywords
Health
Hygiene
Safety
Hazards
Municipal Solid Waste Management
Women Rag-pickers
Garbage
Aurangabad
Marathwada
Maharashtra
Segregation
Swachha Bharat Abhiyan
Government of India
Abstract
Rag-pickers play an important, but usually unrecognized role in the Solid Waste Management system in India. They sustain themselves by collecting, sorting, and segregating waste and then trading it. By doing this they clean up around 62 million tons of waste generated annually in India. Rag- pickers are estimated between 1.5 million and 4 million in India. Maharashtra state has more than 3 lakh rag-pickers. Around 90 percent of rag-pickers are women. They work informally and independently as the majority of them do not belong to any company or organization. They belong to poor and marginalized social groups and are often vulnerable to a variety of occupational health risks and diseases. Their health and safety is in constant deterioration mainly due to the informal nature of their work. The present paper throws light on the occupational health hazards of women rag-picker in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra. The study recommends that decision-makers should uptake short-term and long-term measures in the waste management sector aiming at improving this vulnerable social group’s health and safety.
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| # | Name | Institute / Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arteeshyamal Shyam Khambekar | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India |
| 2 | Mahesh Digamber Joshi | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India |
| 3 | Siddhartha Satwa Godam | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India |
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Khambekar, Arteeshyamal Shyam, Joshi, Mahesh Digamber, & Godam, Siddhartha Satwa (2020). A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS AMONG WOMEN RAG-PICKERS IN THE MARATHWADA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA STATE. International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, 6(6), 439-445.
MLA Style
Khambekar, Arteeshyamal Shyam, et al. "A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS AMONG WOMEN RAG-PICKERS IN THE MARATHWADA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA STATE." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, vol. 6, no. 6, 2020, pp. 439-445.
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Arteeshyamal Shyam Khambekar, Mahesh Digamber Joshi, and Siddhartha Satwa Godam, "A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS AMONG WOMEN RAG-PICKERS IN THE MARATHWADA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA STATE," International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 439-445, 2020.
Vancouver Style
Khambekar Arteeshyamal Shyam, Joshi Mahesh Digamber, Godam Siddhartha Satwa. A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS AMONG WOMEN RAG-PICKERS IN THE MARATHWADA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA STATE. International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education. 2020;6(6):439-445.
Harvard Style
Khambekar, Arteeshyamal Shyam, Joshi, Mahesh Digamber, & Godam, Siddhartha Satwa (2020) 'A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS AMONG WOMEN RAG-PICKERS IN THE MARATHWADA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA STATE', International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education, 6(6), pp. 439-445.
Chicago Style
Khambekar, Arteeshyamal Shyam, Mahesh Digamber Joshi, and Siddhartha Satwa Godam. "A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS AMONG WOMEN RAG-PICKERS IN THE MARATHWADA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA STATE." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education 6, no. 6 (2020): 439-445.
Turabian Style
Khambekar, Arteeshyamal Shyam, Mahesh Digamber Joshi, and Siddhartha Satwa Godam. "A STUDY OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS AMONG WOMEN RAG-PICKERS IN THE MARATHWADA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA STATE." International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas In Education 6, no. 6 (2020): 439-445.
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