'OYE! Ambala' - A Waste Management Campaign
Young rag-picker makes a living by collecting plastic bottles to sell.
A garbage collection point nearby turns an entire empty land into a dumping ground.
A volunteer at a recce door-to-door awareness campaign.
Agitated woman complains to the field volunteers.
A redi-wala (cart puller) emptying his redi at a garbage collection point.
A door-to-door survey of grievances.
Community meetings in the interior wards and villages with the Sarpanch and women.
Animals eating up a plastic-free meal of segregated wet waste.
Rag-picker carefully segregating waste that he could sell.
School kid identifying waste at a school initiated clean-up drive.
Redi-walas receive their first ever safety gear.
Ambala ranked 433 in the Swachh Bharat Sarvekshan of 2016. The govt. of Haryana posed a challenge to Recity Network to take the rank below 100.
With this aim, we photo documented the waste management systems of Ambala, Haryana, to understand what the city needs in terms of infrastructure, policy making and public co-operation to be a cleaner city over-all. Over a period of three months, all 20 wards were documented and improved along with the locals, govt officials and waste workers. Door-to-door campaigns were carried out to make the residents aware of waste segregation practices, awareness sessions were held at every religious gathering, every ward-level gatherings, in schools, and every medical facility.
Another campaign launched was 'Ambale di shaan' (Pride of Ambala) acknowledging the waste workers and providing them with better infrastructure and safety gears.
