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Evaluating India's Efforts to Tackle Manual Scavenging

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Man Who's Scavengers Are Women, Right?

Priyal: There are hardly any studies, large-scale studies, done about man who's scavengers in the country. She says that 95% of nations, 1.3 million man who're scavengers are women. Priyal: They don't have education, they don't have an alternative source of employment. And even ones in a hair chance, if they decide for their own self dignity, that they don't want to continue this, we know that they will be probably shunned from the society and treated with contempt.

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