What is manual scavenging
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Manual scavenging is a term to used to clean toilet pit on hand due to help of bucket .this is done in India.
What is "manual scavenging"?
Manual Scavenging
--Picking up the trash of the world.
Do you think a simple flush button or any toilet cleaner make it clean? It often involves using a tinplate, broom, and bucket in hands. They’re the people nobody sees. Sending someone down a manhole about 8 feet deep, a practice of manually cleaning human feces from sewers. There isn’t any kind of trash that they don’t pick up. Filth, broken bottles lurking in darkness mark their bodies with scars and cuts, dead animals like rats, cats, dogs are the part of social atrocities that these workers face, they often come across sewer gas contains methane, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide. It’s not uncommon for them during pouring to see their flow double that it gets into their blood. The working conditions of the manual workers have remained virtually unchanged for over a century. Even though manual scavengers suffer from health problems and hear stories of workers dying in manholes, they cannot do anything other than carrying on with their work.There is not much they can do to earn their bread.
Those who die during the duty are replayed by others, waiting to put their lives in danger just to earn a living for themselves and their families. About 80 percent of the workers die before age 60 because of fatal occupation. Manual workers say “The only way to survive is to drink liquor to numb the sense.” Whoever thinks of the man who died cleaning the gutter. He merits just a few paragraphs in the city newspapers.
Let’s raise voice against them. There is no use of existing laws and regulations. Various authorities and regulatory bodies should ensure instead of manual scavengers, robots have to work with the help of manual workers thereby no unemployment will exists in India. Hence, will be no need to remove human feces with bare hands. Appointing someone to clean human waste should not be called as employment because it’s inhuman and equivalent to slavery. People who care about the lives of the other humans should join hands and help manual scavengers to get out of such slavery. Due to lack of education and old principles still, the people are going to that work and the agencies hiring them.
Manual scavengers say “ It is safer to be a soldier serving in Kashmir than a sewer worker in India.