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RTI reveals threefold rise in number of manual scavengers despite ban -Dheeraj Mishra

-TheWire.in

The government, as part of an ongoing survey to identify them, has left out almost half the people who said they were engaged in manual cleaning work.

In India, there are more than 40,000 people working as manual scavengers in 84 districts of 14 states. This information was revealed after a survey begun by the Central government in 2018 for their identification.

This number is three times that of the number obtained in a survey conducted in 2013. At that time, the survey had been conducted in 13 states, and 14,505 manual scavengers had been identified.

An RTI filed by The Wire revealed details on the new survey, like the fact that there are a total of 41,420 manual scavengers in the 84 districts surveyed. Combining the results of the 2013 and 2018 surveys, government records say there are 55,625 manual scavengers in 14 states of the country. More than 70% of them are women.

The National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC), which works under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, had conducted a survey in 170 districts of 18 states. In those districts, a total of 86,528 people described their work as “manual cleaning of waste.”

‘No manual scavengers’ in 4 states

But the government has oddly only identified 41,120 of them as manual scavengers, leaving out half of those who registered their occupation as something exactly the same as manual scavenging.

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