Report Writing Report 4. Rag-Pickers in A Slum Area Writing Skills for Exams

Q1. You are the social worker from NCPCR Delhi. You happen to visit and interact with the families of rag-pickers in slum area. Write your experience in 100- 150 words highlighting their problems living conditions daily routine their future etc.

Rag-Pickers in A Slum Area
By the Experience of a Social Worker (Report)

24 September 2015, 

New Delhi,  It all happened for me to visit Seema Puri located on the periphry of trans Yamuna region of Delhi, where approximately ten thousand rag-pickers reside in the huts of grass and bamboo thatched roof. These people came to this region as refugees in the year 1971 when Bangladesh emerged as a new state from Pakistan due to war with India. They belong to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The floods and storms destroyed their crops lush green fields and live stocks. The Indian government register them on the electrol roll and gave them ration card and food grains so as to keep their body and soul
together.
They are all living in very much more unhealthy conditions. All the children are helping in rag-picking in searching coins or valuable items in the garbage rather than going to school. In heaps of waste and garbage they collect the waste paper, plastic material iron objects etc and self it in the Junk market to earn the bread and butter for their family. All the family members are indulged in work. Hence the army of these bare feeted rag-pickers can be seen by any one in the vicinity of Seema puri. Due to illitracy, they cann’t get good jobs. Therefore rag-picking has just become their means of earning, living into lurch and thus having a future painted with fog. The government should provide them basic amenities for their proper survival. Thanks.