Manual Scavengers-India’s Not So Hidden Workers - By Manisha Kukreti

Sometimes, certain things are so common that people do not flinch a bit even if the law of the land says the act is illegal. People go about their daily routine all too oblivious of the harsh reality of our country, that still thousands of people go to work as manual scavengers, that they work in inhospitable environment without proper safety kits and that if some of them die of asphyxiation in the darkness of manual holes and septic tanks- government might not even enter them into their data book. Because as things stand today, manual scavenging has long been ....