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  • July 29, 2023
  • 10:19 am
  • groundxero
  • Caste

Government lies again on deaths of manual scavengers in sewer & septic tanks

Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA) has objected to the data placed in Parliament by the Union government regarding the number of  persons who died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks. SKA said that the figures of death reported by the government are grossly incorrect. A report by Groundxero.   On 25 July, 2023, responding to a […]


  • September 27, 2018
  • 7:28 pm
  • groundxero
  • Caste

There is Nothing ‘Spiritual’ in Cleaning Sewage and Carrying Human Excreta

In his book Karmayog, Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks of manual scavenging as a ‘spiritual experience’. He gives this sermon even while manual scavenging is banned by law in India. At least one person dies every day while cleaning sewers and septic tanks. Besides risk to human health and life the occupation employing thousands of […]