Delhi is trying to end manual scavenging by using sewer cleaning machines. Are its efforts working?
Two years after the project launch, little appears to have changed for the capital’s sanitation workers. The Delhi government s new machine at work in Srinivaspuri. | Salik Ahmed/ Article-14
It is an hour before dusk, and a blue vehicle of a small truck’s size is backing into a congested lane in a southern neighbourhood in India’s teeming capital city. Dust-caked cars and motorcycles line the road in Srinivaspuri, under a menacing mesh of electricity wires.
Two sanitation workers guide the driver as he reverses the vehicle, inch-by-inch, dodging a low-hanging wire here, a vehicle’s rear view mirror there and steers slowly to the end of the narrow lane. When he parks, the workers remove long iron hooks from the vehicle and use them to lift the lid of a blocked manhole, revealing a bubbling, filthy drain.
DICCI plans business facilitation centres in all States
January 18, 2021
The Dalit Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) is planning to set up business facilitation centres in all State headquarters.
According to Ravi Kumar Narra, the newly-elected national working president, DICCI, at present the industry body has seven business facilitation centres. “This will be increased to 30 by April 14 on the birth anniversary of Baba Saheb Ambedkar,” he said in a statement.
DICCI has 30 chapters all over the country including Jammu and Kashmir and North East with 10,000 member entrepreneurs.
With a tag line of ‘Be Job Givers’, DICCI wants to motivate SC, ST youth to enter the business and industry sector as entrepreneurs and carve their own niche, he added.
Ravi Kumar Narra elected as National President of DICCI
December 31, 2020
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DICCI national council also elected two Vice Presidents and several other national office bearers were also announced Padma Shri Ravi Kumar Narra has been elected as National President of the 15 year old industry chamber Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI).
DICCI promotes business leadership amongst SC-ST communities.
In a communication by the DICCI Secretariat, it was informed that Ravi Kumar Narra was elected to the position in the 3rd DICCI National Council Meeting held in Chennai on Tuesday. Ravi Kumar who was until now the National Working President shall take charge of the chamber as a full pledged National President.