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FROM DINGY CELLS TO DAYLIGHT ... A DREAM far from REALITY

" The day everyone in India gets a toilet, I shall know that our country has reached the pinnacle of progress," famously said Jawaharlal Nehru; a dream that is yet to be fulfilled by a nation which celebrated 70 glorious years of its Independence in 2017.      On 7th September, India's Parliament passed a law prohibiting the employment of individuals as manual scavengers by prescribing stringent punishment including imprisonment upto 5 years.      Manual scavenging, a job that is considered worst and wretched in India, still prevails in its soil which serves as a source of livelihood to many of its citizens. It refers to the practice of manually cleaning, carrying and disposing or handling, in any manner human excreta from dry latrines and sewers. Manual scavenging are amongst the most disadvantaged communities in India and us evident in the parts of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Moreover, the lives of the pit workers are outrage...