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प्रश्न
Write 3 sentences on what comes to your mind when you chance to see the following.
A rag picker
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उत्तर
- On seeing a rag picker, I feel that he is poor and does not get enough food; it was doing such work.
- He does his job very obediently. He separates biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste into two different sacs.
- He is exposing himself to various diseases by working in such areas.
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| Garbage Items | Make manure or not | |
| (i) | Egg shells | |
| (ii) | Straw | |
| (iii) | Dry flowers | |
| (iv) | Pebbles | |
| (v) | Broken pieces of glass | |
| (vi) | Nails and screws | |
| (vii) | Plastic bangles | |
| (viii) | Left over food | |
| (ix) | Steel broken vessel | |
| (x) | Dead animals |
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