Assam: At Boragaon, defenceless ragpickers wage lone battle
With no intervention from the health department and the Kamrup (Metro) district administration, ragpickers at the Boragaon dumping site, located adjacent to the Deepor Beel, are working without face masks, sanitizers and social distancing. Many of them don’t even know about vaccination, or basic protocols that need to be followed during a pandemic.