Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill was passed in 2013 which gave sharper teeth to the Act of 1993. Exactly how serious is the issue of manual scavenging in our country? How many toilets function without water, which are then cleaned by human hands? Take a guess! 50, 000? 100,000? 200,000? No. By Government data, there are 2.6 million dry toilets in the country which human beings use on a regular basis. This is excluding the number of dry toilets operated under the railway which is close to another 0.45 million. If you think its a spiritual work for the women (principally. Except a very few widower and unmarried men) who are involved, following some of the biggest con-masters of our times, try doing the spirit-lifting work for one to three months in any of these tirthsthan, a glimpse of which is provided in the documentary below.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:12:25 +0000
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