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A Lens to Understand Sanitation Workers and their Health Status in India

Author(s) -

Rejesh Bose K

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of pharmacy practice and community medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2455-3255

DOI - 10.5530/jppcm.2019.2.9

Subject(s) - sanitation , caste , urbanization , independence (probability theory) , community health workers , economic growth , business , socioeconomics , geography , environmental health , sociology , political science , engineering , medicine , environmental engineering , economics , health services , population , mathematics , statistics , law

It is estimated that there is around 5 million in India are employed as sanitation workers. Among them two millions are working under “high risk” conditions. Despite of rapid growth in urbanisation and technology the working condition of these sanitation workers have remain unchanged since independence. Another inevitable concern needs to be understood while we study about sanitation workers is that it is also deeply rooted in Indian Caste system which assigns duties of sweeping, cleaning toilets, Manual scavenging to individuals from lowest sub castes of Dalit community. Read more...

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