A recent text message received from Defence Minister Rajnath Singh exhorts “Hon Raksha Mantri to flag off ‘Plastic Se Raksha’. Nationwide event from Delhi Cantt Board”. This was on December 7.
A day later, in the early hours of Sunday, December 8, an appalling fire broke out in a deeply congested area of Old Delhi, killing 43, mostly poor migrants from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand, several of them children, engaged in producing plastic toys, plastic photo frames, rexine bags, and suchlike. The sweat shops were packed with inflammable materials such as glue and plastic granules. The workers lived and worked
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