Over 1000 die in Manholes every year in India

And that is a conservative estimate of ‘’cleaners dying in gutters’’according to Kamdar Swasthya Suraksha Mandal, an NGO of Ahmedabad in Tehelka Magazine.

Chairperson of National Commission of Safai Karmacharies Santosh Choudhary says that at least two to three persons must be dying every day inside manholes across India.

The magazine says that ‘’unnoticed by the world, India has been subjecting a particular sub-caste withing Dalits to this genocide for decades’’.

Now Genocide may be a very harsh word used by the magazine, utter neglect would have been much better, but the fact that closing our eyes to their dismal state is indeed tremendous neglect.