Tag: Manual Scavenging
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Manual Scavenging in India: Illegal, yet in Practise
In India, we continue to practice manual scavenging, a derogatory practice, confined to people belonging to lower castes and resulting in their deaths.
Governement turns blind eye towards the manual sacengers
Three young sanitation workers enter a sewer in Dhrangadhra town in Gujarat without any protective gear. This practice of manual cleaning, carrying, disposing or handling, human excreta from dry latrines, open drains or pits and sewers without protective gear is criminalised by The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and...
Cleaning Gutters With Bare Hands
Dalits work in dangerous, undignified conditions to clean sewage in Trichy, Tamil Nadu
Harsh Realities of Dalits in India
64 years of freedom and dalits remain captive.
Unemployment Forces Youth Into Gutters
The caste of those doing manual scavenging has changed, but the exploitation remains.
India’s Untouched Temple!
Ramayana characters are worshipped in India while temples dedicated to the author of the epic is treated ‘untouchable’.