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Manual scavenging: A stinking legacy of suffocation and stigma (2018)
- ravisutrave 4y agoArticle is from 2018. More context: https://scroll.in/latest/1029762/no-manual-scavengers-in-india-but-330-died-cleaning-sewers-from-2017-to-2021-centre-tells-lok-sabha https://scroll.in/latest/1029762/no-manual-scavengers-in-ind... http://164.100.24.220/loksabhaquestions/annex/179/AU2726.pdf http://164.100.24.220/loksabhaquestions/annex/179/AU2726.pdf
- avidiax 4y agoThe wages they mention sound impossibly low. INR10 per month? How could someone afford to eat? And why do "rehabilitated"/"liberated" scavengers face violence? Is there an element of slavery?