What is meant by manual scavenging?
Manual scavenging refers to the practice of removing human and animal waste/excreta using brooms, tin plates and baskets from dry latrines and carrying it on the head to disposal grounds some distance away.
Re-read the story on Rathnam as well as the provisions of the 1989 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Now list one reason why you think he used this law to file a complaint.
Why do Adivasi activists, including C.K. Janu, believe that Adivasis can also use this 1989 Act to fight against dispossession? Is there anything specific in the provisions of the Act that allows her to believe this?
Which Article of the Constitution states that untouchability has been abolished?
Rathnam refused to perform the ritual because
C.K. Janu is
The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act came into being in the year
Who cannot avail reservations?
There are specific ________ and ________ for the marginalised in our country.
Rathnam filed a case in the local police station under the ________________.
Manual scavengers are exposed to ____________ conditions of work and face serious hazards.
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