HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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cleaning streets and removing waste
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performing religious ceremonies
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preparing and serving food
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leading soldier into battles
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Detailed explanation-1: -Solution: The practice of carrying human excreta by hand is called manual scavenging. It could be in an open sewer or drain, a septic tank, or a pit.” The manual scavengers usually use hand tools such as buckets, shovels, and brooms. They move the excreta using brooms and tin plates.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 to further reinforce the ban and to provide for the rehabilitation of people employed as manual scavengers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Caste not only dictates one’s occupation, but dietary habits and interaction with members of other castes as well. Members of a high caste enjoy more wealth and opportunities while members of a low caste perform menial jobs. Outside of the caste system are the Untouchables.
Detailed explanation-4: -Efforts made by the government to eradicate manual scavenging practice is as follows: The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 punishes the employment of manual scavengers and the construction of dry toilets.
Detailed explanation-5: -Remedy # 1. Proper Knowledge about Caste: Remedy # 2. Less use of the term Caste: Remedy # 3. Inter-caste Marriages: Remedy # 4. Removal of Socio-cultural Inequality: Remedy # 5. Promotion of Economic Equality: