Dalit social activists and others who take up the issues of the marginalized sections of society often ask a question on social media. The question is that if the sanitation workers were Brahmins, Kshatriyas or Vaishyas, instead of Dalits, would their conditions of the work been so horrific, whether there would have been so many deaths during work, whether the tools used would have been so obsolete and whether the deaths would have been mere statistics for the governments.
This has become a serious issue now as the National Commission of Safai Karamcharis has said in a report that since 1 January, 2017, a sanitation worker died every five days while cleaning a septic tank or sewer in the country.
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