Manual scavenging is one of the major problem in India. As per the recent reports there are 58,098 manual scavengers in India and working too. Cleaning human wastes that are inside the septic tanks through people without protective measures is very harmful and dangerous. It is a sorrowful thing that mostly this work is done by the Dalits and poor people forcibly. According to the “Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act” of 2013, no people should work as a manual scavenger, our government also given them the machines for cleaning the septic tanks. But also now people (majorly the oppressed class) are forced to engage in manual scavenging in India. Though manual scavenging is banned in India, it’s a sorrowful information that Indian railways (owned by the Ministry of Railways, Government of India) is the largest employer of manual scavenging.
Still “Manual Scavenging”
