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A recent report in the Indian Express states that an inter-ministerial task force has counted up to 53,236 people involved in manual scavenging in India, a four-fold rise from the 13,000-odd such workers accounted for in official records until 2017. A reading list examines manual sanitation work in India.
In May 2018, two men died at a city hospital after they inhaled toxic gases while they were trapped inside a sewage treatment plant at Vivanta by Taj—Ambassador Hotel in Lutyens’ Delhi.
Four contract workers fell to their death in January 2018 while repairing a nine-metre-long sewer line in Powai, Mumbai. Less than a week later, three manual scavengers in Bengaluru died of asphyxiation. This is routine news for the workers—the unappreciated, true foot soldiers of “Swachh Bharat” who dive into manholes with minimal protective gear and put their lives at maximum risk.
According to this 2017 Quartz report, “Over the last eight years at least, the death toll among sewer workers has started to converge with that of security forces deployed in the beleaguered state(Kashmir)." India’s sewage system has killed 90 people so far [in 2017].
A recent report in the Indian Express states that an inter-ministerial task force has counted up to 53,236 people involved in manual scavenging in India, a four-fold rise from the 13,000-odd such workers accounted for in official records until 2017.