“Swacch Bharat Abhiyan” vs the ironic practice of Manual Scavenging.
As India will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which will also mark the completion of 5 years of “Swacch Bharat Abhiyan” in 2019, it’s very ironic that some people, particularly Dalits, continue to die while doing the task of manual scavenging across the country. According to an official data provided the National Commission for Safai Karmachari (NCSK), a statutory body set up The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, one person has died every five days on an average since…
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