Manual Scavengers | 19-03-2022

 

Manual scavengers continue to remove human waste by hand despite a ban imposed.

 

Manual scavenging is a term used mainly in India for "manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or sewer or in a septic tank or a pit". Manual scavengers usually use hand tools such as buckets, brooms, and shovels.