Laxmi, a 70-year-old woman at Ms Jaain’s depot said, "I was a beggar, Ms gutter guards for sale Jaain picked me and offered a job with her. Ms Jaain had started plastic waste collection, segregation and recycling in the plush area of Juhu Vile-Parle Development (JVPD) in 2003.Ms Jaain specialises in training labourers, waste pickers, beggars and jobless transgenders for the job of collection and waste recycling. "You may understand the power of contractor lobby," she said." Ms Jaain and her company functions on the m,oney that they earn from selling compost to both companies and individuals. Ms Jaain said she had developed her own special chemical, after research and development, in order to control the odour. It’s the first Private-Public Partnership model in India in waste management supported by K-West Ward of MCGM.Raaginii Jaain has been campaigning for cleanliness drive from long before the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched.
Though Ms Jaain’s depot is huge and one can see women in the campus segregating the wastage into wet and dry, one can’t feel the bad odour associated with wastage. She added that if she could not control the bad odour, residents from this posh area would not allow her to conduct this business."Initially, nobody was ready to allow me as collecting waste and dump it at specific allotted area is the work allotted to some contractors and the contractors was not ready to allow me to interfere in their ‘business’" said Ms Jaain. This workforce is trained to collect and recycle the plastic and green waste by itself. According to Ms Jaain, after moving to Mumbai in 2003, she saw solid waste and nullah full of plastic waste in plush area of JVPD, and approached ‘K’ ward officer of BMC in 2003 and asked for permission to collect waste.At the JVPD depot, the green waste is converted into organic manure in specially designed bio-bins and bio-degradable waste is converted into eco-friendly organic compost. All collections are done by waste pickers and sweepers.Modi also asked people of Assam to give a chance to BJP, and said that he would make laws for the welfare of Assamese a reality if there is a government in Assam which listens to the Centre."
I should not have got the opportunity of inaugurating the project if this unit was set up 25 years back by the then Prime Minister, he said.Prime Minister exhorted youth to set up small ancillary units for plastic processing in the states as per capita plastic consumption in India is very less, hardly at 10 kg per person. It needs a government that is receptive to the problems of the labourers," he said..Slamming the Congress Government for neglecting the state's tea workers, he hit out at the Congress for not implementing the existing laws for their security.Modi said with the dedication of these projects to the nation, there was 'Anand' (joy) across the country and 'Sarbanand' (all-round joy) in Assam.Claiming that the government's priority is to develop Northeast as it believes in "all-round development" of the nation, Modi exhorted the youth of the states to take advantage of these two projects and set up small factories that will add value and generate wealth for the country.GAIL is the main promoter with 70 per cent stake, while Assam government, Oil India and Numaligarh Refinery have 10 per cent stake each in the company.