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Plummeting quantities of garbage and lockdown restrictions have hit waste-pickers
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A ragpickers walks on Kanakapura Road in search of waste amidst the lockdown in Bengaluru.
| Photo Credit: Bhagya Prakash K
Plummeting quantities of garbage and lockdown restrictions have hit waste-pickers
On a regular day in what has come to be known as the ‘pre-COVID era , as most people went about their life, a section of invisible workers would start sifting through piles of garbage. With a sack on their back, this small army of waste-pickers would help reduce – even if marginally – the burden on the city’s waste management infrastructure.
Mangaluru: 5 achievers felicitated on International Women’s Day
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March 8, 2021
Mangaluru, Mar 8: Women India Movement observed International Women’s Day by felicitating five achievers in Mangaluru on Monday.
The achievers who were felicitated are Sabitha Monis who was born without arms and was recently selected for the Women Achievers award-2021, instituted by Press Council of India and Karnataka Newspapers Association, Ayesha (Karkala), Ashleen (Mangaluru), Shamshad (Mangaluru) and Reshma (Mangaluru).
National Women’s Front State President and Bantwal Town Municipal Council member Zeenath Bantwal said, “Women should raise voice against atrocities and injustice. Women are not weak. Unitedly, they should raise their voice in the country.”
Karnataka Budget 2021-22 will focus on development, women: CM
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March 1, 2021
Bengaluru, Mar 1: Putting behind the travails of the Covid-19 pandemic that disrupted normal life for nearly a year, Karnataka budget for fiscal 2021-22 would focus more on development works and women s welfare, said state Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Sunday. The state budget for the ensuing fiscal will give priority to development works and women s welfare. This is my assurance to all women in the state, said Yediyurappa in Kannada at a public event at Soraba in Karnataka s Shivamogga district.
The month-long budget session of the state legislature will begin on March 4 and Yediyurappa, who holds the finance portfolio, will present his 8th budget on March 8 in the legislative assembly.
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