BEZWADA WILSON

of the Safai Karmachari Andolan also says that sewer workers should not enter sewers. “Sewer workers are also manual scavengers, since much of what they clean is human excreta. There is a ban on human scavenging. So for us it’s not about safety gear or proper payment. We just don’t want them to go down and clean sewers manually,” he says.

Roy insists that rather than talking about the need for safety gear for sewer workers, the focus should be on making the work place safe for them. They should not have to enter sewers to clean them.