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Manual scavengers say ‘no more’

Demand Passing Of New Bill To Ban Practice At Protest Rally In Capital It may be hard to imagine that manual scavenging is still practised in parts of the National Capital Region. But in many parts of NCR and neighboring states like Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, people manually clean dry toilets everyday while braving dangerous infections, sometimes for a paltry sum of Rs 10 per household.