Low Wages, No Safety Equipment, Institutional Apathy: How Manual Scavenging is Still Practised in Kolkata

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Contractors employ sanitation workers on a daily basis. For four hours of work some contractors pay Rs 230, others pay Rs 180.

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi suggested that the phrase should be the Modi govt’s new slogan.

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In the interim budget, only Rs 30 crore was allocated towards rehabilitation of manual scavengers.

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