Manual Scavenging - cleaning of human excreta ...ewwww....shit...yeah real human crap...by people who are employed to do just that. This is the sickest version of social discrimination and economic exploitation. Patriarchy, poverty, hunger and caste plays a major role in these people's woes. 98% are women. Well..Amen to gender equality. Why are such undignified tasks left to the lower caste women. Caste and gender is rising its ugly head all over the place. Most of the time they are paid in kind, mostly food grains.
Lower Castes get 100% of jobs as manual scavengers, and no one bats an eye. But they ask for 50 % of other jobs and everyone loses their minds.
Women getting 98% jobs in manual scavenging and no one bats an eye. They ask for 33 % seats in parliament and everyone loses their minds.
The funny this is that these people are hired as unofficial contract laborers by the Indian railway to clean tracks and municipal corporations to clean urban areas. But there is actually a law (prohibition of employment as manual scavengers and their rehabilitation act, 2013) which Govt. has passed outlawing this shit. But, who cares about puny laws. Laws are meant to be broken, Right.
We pass them, We break them. That is how we rule.
Each job has its own dignity, well...cut the crap...it doesn't. This is not a fucking job, its bloody exploitation. Its human rights violation.
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