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Pratyush Deep

‘This is an open secret’: In Haryana, ‘sewermen’ are forced to enter manholes and clean sewage

In September last year, Ravi, 32, climbed into a manhole on Jhind road in Haryana’s Rohtak district. Employed by a contractor at the state’s public health engineering department, he was tasked with unblocking a sewer line.

Ravi didn’t want to do it. He had no safety equipment and was dressed only in his underwear.

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