Post by Bimal Sahu, former Insurance Commissioner, ESIC, Ministry of Labour. Recently, newspapers reported the unfortunate and sad news about the death of 4 scavengers of Delhi Muncipal Corporation while cleaning safety tanks in the city. This was preceded by similar occurrence involving scavengers in cities like Chennai and Chandigarh. As per report available through […]
Posts Tagged ‘Smart Cities’
Smart City, Smart Scavengers through Safety, Social Security & Skill Development
Amrit on July 26th, 2017
Posted in Health 
Tags: bhubaneswar, labour, manual scavenging, safety, scavengers, security, Smart Cities, Urban India, urbanisation 
No Comments »Lets Plan for Smart Indian Villages
S Chandrasekhar on June 23rd, 2015
Would it be more pertinent to work towards making every habitation smart rather than focusing only on 100 smart cities? Instead of harping on smart cities how about smart villages? Let us start with the 4862 villages with over 10,000 residents. Let us make these smart villages thereby covering 8.6 percent of India’s rural population. […]
