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Three years after Hyderabad got machines to end manual scavenging, sickness and degradation endure
While machines reduced the death rate among sanitation workers, fewer than 3% of them became entrepreneurs. 2 hours ago Two workers of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board cleaning a manhole during the lockdown in 2020. | Almaas Masood/ Article-14
As he stood hunched over an open manhole, Venkatesh manoeuvered a high-power water hose connected to a little truck that was too small to enter the dank, narrow lane, as many work areas for sewer workers tend to be in Hyderabad.
A nervous man in his 30s, Venkatesh directed the jet of water downwards to clear a choked sewer. Four years ago, he would have to descend its dark, grimy depths and clear the block with a stick and hand, risking injury and possible death.
Delhi is trying to end manual scavenging by using sewer cleaning machines. Are its efforts working?
Two years after the project launch, little appears to have changed for the capital’s sanitation workers. The Delhi government s new machine at work in Srinivaspuri. | Salik Ahmed/ Article-14
It is an hour before dusk, and a blue vehicle of a small truck’s size is backing into a congested lane in a southern neighbourhood in India’s teeming capital city. Dust-caked cars and motorcycles line the road in Srinivaspuri, under a menacing mesh of electricity wires.
Two sanitation workers guide the driver as he reverses the vehicle, inch-by-inch, dodging a low-hanging wire here, a vehicle’s rear view mirror there and steers slowly to the end of the narrow lane. When he parks, the workers remove long iron hooks from the vehicle and use them to lift the lid of a blocked manhole, revealing a bubbling, filthy drain.
A look at the law that does not work and the lives at stake. 4 hours ago In 27 years till 2020, 1,013 persons died while working as manual scavengers in India. | Chandan Khanna / AFP
In September 2020, on the eve of the monsoon session of Parliament, a news agency reported that the government was proposing to introduce a new bill that would strengthen the law against manual scavenging. The new Bill proposed “to completely mechanise sewer cleaning and provide better protection at work and compensation in case of accidents’’.
The aim appeared laudable, but the Bill had been drafted without any discussion with those involved.
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