5 June 2011

An extract from The Times of India:

It's six months since India missed its last deadline to abolish manual scavenging since the practice was outlawed in 1993.

For many, it may be difficult to believe that manual scavenging continues to this day, but even in Delhi, say activists, you only have to travel to a far-flung area such as Maujpur or Nandnagri to find the practice continuing.

It's not that there has been no attempt at change. In Haridwar, women who make up 80% of the manual scavenger population, burnt their baskets - symbolic of the headload of human excreta they lug.

Source: Nandita Sengupta, Times News Network (TNN)

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