Poverty, caste-discrimination at the root of manual scavenging, reveals study
A worker cleaning a storm water drain in Chennai. File | Photo Credit: JOTHI RAMALINGAM B They know it is a inhuman and demeaning job rooted in caste-based discrimination and passed on to successive generations, but the sanitary workers continue to undertake manual scavenging as employers exploit them, and at times are cruel as well. … Read more