1,000 to be issued RFID cards for ragpickers

With the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in the process of installing biometric devices at the Deonar dumping ground, nearly 1,000 ragpickers will be able to resume their jobs from June onwards. Ragpickers were barred from entering the dumping ground in March following a number of pocket fires. The solid waste management department of the BMC will set up watchtowers as well as high masts around the 120-hectare ground for increased surveillance.