Manual scavenging: How keeping Indian cities clean is a fatal proposition
"At a time when Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is coming closer to ending open defecation, isn't it time to invest in those human beings who enable this ideal?" asks Bharati Chaturvedi.
Keeping an Indian city clean can literally be fatal. In July and August this year, 10 sewage workers died in Delhi, at work. In Mumbai, the Hindustan Times in February 2017 reported an extraordinary figure of 30 sewage worker deaths from 2014 to 2017. And that's just incomplete data from bigger cities only the tip of the iceberg.
When a worker enters the sewage network, he
