This was shot in the morning the 11 day of my walk that I began on 10 Feb 2015
I see these guys almost every morning and presumably they are drug addicts most of the rag pickers of Bandra are junkies and the only job they do is scavenging the garbage bins picking up junk from the streets.
They work in the nights till early morning and being homeless they sleep on the sacks of the junk they have collected and mind you it is quite cold in the mornings ..no bed sheet no covering ..despite their junk habit they keep the streets clean a job that Bandra Municipality staff cant do efficiently and at times I think the Municipality of Greater Mumbai is anti Mumbai .. they hate the people they hate the city and they are doing a great job of destroying the city gradually and honestly some new civic infrastructure should come in place of the Municipality .. it is only interested in making a fast buck by hook or by crook..
Over the years perhaps two decade they have taken the public for a ride like the Congress and its time our Chief Minister Mr Dev Fadnavis does something about it ,,or Mumbai will be lost forever .. Night life will mean more corruption both by the cops and the Municipality ..
What has been done to rehabilitate the ragpickers they work without gloves or masks but here the ragpickers work to keep up their habit .. they make about Rs 250 to Rs 300 a day.
And this morning I left my house at 5.22 reached the end of Bandra Reclamation at 5.40 I walked to the Met Gardens reached inside at 5.56 am took 10 rounds and did some free hand exercise at the Municipal playground next to th Met Gardens , the dirtiest , ugliest park in Bandra .
I wish Ms Poonam Mahajan and Advocate Ashish Shelar ,, see it too.. and this part of Bandra is the BJP Shivsena Vote Bank.
Beyond this are the slums the residents orphaned by the exit of Congress ,,,and much of the illegal shop extensions , illegal house extensions illegal housing are all found in this belt of Bandra Reclamation reaching as far as Nargis Dutt Nagar slums.
All open garbage are in this belt too .. Swach Bandra for you.
I came home at 6.45 .am.
