The young and old men who work as manual scavengers have one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. Recent government statistics revealed that a manual scavenger has died every five days since the start of 2017 while cleaning sewers. Then, on September 9, five men died while cleaning a sewer pit at DLF Capital Greens in Moti Nagar in Delhi. Doman Ray drowned while working inside a sewer tank of a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) sewage pumping station in Jahangirpuri in north Delhi, the Hindustan Times reports. He says that most of the sewer workers working under him commonly suffer from eye problems, respiratory and skin diseases.

Source: Daily Mail October 22, 2018 16:07 UTC