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From: Shiva Shankar <sshankar@cmi.ac.in>
Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Subject: Eradicate Manual Scavenging
To:
'... A hitherto voiceless people have rallied together from the nooks
and corners of India and have made tremendous progress within a short
span of time to achieve near total eradication of manual scavenging.'
Launching of Samajik Parivartan Yatra
(For Eradication of Manual Scavenging in India)
Press Release
The Samajik Parivartan Yatra has been flagged off on Wednesday 29th
Septmber, 2010 in New Delhi. The liberated safai karmacharis Saroj,
Maya Goutam, Anita, Neetu and Mamata from various states released the
route maps and demands to symbolise the beginning of Yatra.
Speaking on the occasion, Saroj and others shared their own
experiences of pain and suffering associated with manual scavenging.
They narrated how they were inducted into the degrading jobs by their
mothers or mother-in-laws, who were doing the same jobs from
generation to generation. They explained how the dry latrine owners
and users and the general public practised untouchability on them. Now
that they have stopped doing the manual scavenging work, they feel
liberated and are determined to carry the message to all other safai
karamcharis in their respective districts and states. Saroja vowed not
to rest until the last person is liberated from manual scavenging in
this country. They are proud of their participation in rallies,
dharnas and burning the baskets, the symbols of the shame of manual
scavenging.
Mr. Harsh Mander, renowned intellectual, Social Activist and member of
the National Advisory Council commended SKA for mobilising the safai
karmacharis and inspiring them to accomplish their liberation and
simultaneously enabling the country as a whole to envision a manual
scavenging free India. He appreciated SKA for taking the path of
persuasion and adopting the legal route to achieve their noble goal,
in a non-violent way.
Ms. Usha Ramanathan, an accomplished legal expert and Legal Reform
Activist felt that the struggle of Safai Karmacharis under the
leadership of SKA will go down in history as phenomenal. A hitherto
voiceless people have rallied together from the nooks and corners of
India and have made tremendous progress within a short span of time to
achieve near total eradication of manual scavenging.
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