Keyword : Manual Scavenging

Manhole of Indignity

An American president once said that freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. But in the dark-suffocating manholes of indignity to which th

Swachh Bharat: Why is manual scavenging still prevalent?

India has 1,80,657 manual scavengers, reveals the socio-economic caste census. Going by the SECC data it is eviden

Won’t cow down to cow-protectors

How can people divided into thousands of castes be a nation?” This was a basic question raised by Dr BR Ambedkar during the freedom struggle. According to him, without annihilation of caste,

Manual scavenging: A road with no end

There seems to be no end in sight for manual scavenging which still persists in some parts of the country. In FY 2018-19, the union government allocated Rs 20 crore to Self- Employme

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


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