Uzmi Athar

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“It was a dark, dark period — no less than a war. We didn’t know what would happen the next day. I remember being so afraid that my family didn’t travel outside Delhi until the Emergency ended,” 78-year-old Ishrat Jahan, a resident of Okhla, Delhi said. Amina Hasan, now 83 and living in Aligarh, still shudders at the memory. “We were poor but had dignity. They took that away. In our area, men started hiding in fields and wells when officials came around. We felt hunted,” she recalled.

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The clinic offers affordable and repair services through local women’s self-help groups supported by the Jeevika Livelihoods Mission. Consumables like tiles or taps are billed as per actual use. The women labourers ensure that families do not defecate in the open. “When a toilet breaks, people feel ashamed to talk about it. But silence only deepens the problem. I wanted a place where repairs could be made without shame ”where women could lead the solution,” Babita said.

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“I used to be scared to even speak in front of others. I still remember the first time I stood up to talk here last year. My legs were shaking. But now I can speak confidently.” The anganwadi, like thousands across the country, is mandated to serve children under six, pregnant women and lactating mothers.

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“He kicked me even when I was carrying his child. But this place helped me walk away,” Preeti told PTI about her now ex-husband. She said this OSC helped her close a painful chapter of her life and she does not want to look back. “This place gave me the courage to leave. Now, I can start over,” she said.

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As India’s e-waste policy evolves and the gaze of enforcement agencies intensifies, the epicentre of one of the world’s largest informal e-waste markets has quietly dispersed, not collapsed, but fragmented and slipped into the shadows. The business hasn’t ended, it has just moved — to Loni, Muradabad, Meerut and smaller towns where it thrives away from the eyes of the regulators, the media, and digital scrutiny. “The volumes have not really reduced.