The Bitter Truth
Over 2.5 million people in India are still employed to manually enter and clean manholes, sewers, septic tanks and dry latrines.[1]
![The number of deaths due to manual scavenging per year from 2015 to 2019.](images/deaths.jpg)
Recent News
- Four men, employed for manual scavenging, asphyxiate to death in Tamil Nadu
- 6 die after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank in Jharkhand's Deoghar
- Safety equipment still a luxury for sanitation workers in India - Forty-year old Rishi Pal became the latest casualty of the pervasive apathy when he died inside a gutter of the LNJP Hospital that he was tasked to clean.