By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Dec. 29, 2018: Meet India’s army of manual scavengers who operate in that twilight zone maintaining drains, sewers, septic tanks, railway tracks all with their bare hands without any protective gear or masks. Not to mention that they also carry and dispose of human excreta.Continue Reading
The Central government has identified 11,044 women manual scavengers and claims to have rehabilitated over 88 per cent of them. These scavengers are scattered in 13 states, and more than 94 per cent of them (10,449) live in Uttar Pradesh alone. Others are spread across Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,Continue Reading
Ranikumari Khokar is campaigning to end a caste-based practice that condemns women to cleaning human waste by handContinue Reading
