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Tag: Sanitation Workers

Posted inIndia, South Asia

Manual scavenging: India’s indelible blemish

by Pitamber Kaushik January 15, 2020

Consider this country – a nuclear power, aerospace power, owner of a formidable military, and the world’s fifth-largest economy, yet with a more-or-less hereditary group of people, nigh-obligated to clean the excrement of others to sustain a livelihood, because they are unfamiliar with or not permitted to ply any other trade than to clean up […]

Posted inIndia, Japan, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

Modi’s ‘Clean India’ initiative fails in his constituency

by Kanchan Srivastava November 29, 2018

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