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FTN: Is caste prejudice behind manual scavenging?

Sagarika Ghose, CNN-IBN | Updated Jul 20, 2012 at 11:08am IST

Manual scavenging was banned by Karnataka in 1970 and across the country in 1993 but a report by the people's union for civil liberties says that even today there are 8000 manual scavengers in India.

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