Manual scavenging, one of most abominable realities that exist in our country today. The human excreta from dry latrines which scavengers carry and clean. Manual scavenging today, continued in various parts of India, where there is no proper sewage systems or safe facial sludge mangement practices. It is a pure tragedy for a country that is over seven decades into its independence, that a section of population still earn their living by cleaning human excreta. It is even more painful to imagine the exploitation and humiliation that manual scavengers are subjected to. The right to be free from manual scavenging is an economic, social and cultural rights. Digging through the layers of manual scavenging in India. There is a deep-rooted social stigmas attached to it. The issue to has an untold casteist angle to itself. This job has been a "forced labour and slavery" since Dalits has to take up this sure to their discrimination and debt bondage. Movements like Swachh ...
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