Swachh Bharat: Who will empty the 44 lakh toilet pits?

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Though rehabilitation was promised, families of manual scavengers successful  mathkur, adjacent   Hessarghatta, proceed  to unrecorded  without authorities  support.

Though rehabilitation was promised, families of manual scavengers successful mathkur, adjacent Hessarghatta, proceed to unrecorded without authorities support. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT: In this series, we hint the unseen lives of the State’s sanitation workers, capturing the quality cost, systemic failures, and hidden labour that keeps the sanitation web functioning.

“When the suction lorry finishes but the choke has inactive not eased, they inquire america to get in. If the discarded has hardened astatine the bottom, the hose cannot pump it out. That’s when I ascent down to loosen it truthful that it tin beryllium pumped out,” said Maruthi B., a nonmigratory of Anepalya, who has been cleaning septic tanks and sewage attraction plants crossed Bengaluru for years.

Published - March 01, 2026 09:01 p.m. IST

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