Caste, Corruption, and Privatisation: Why Conservancy Workers Remain India’s Most Disposable Workforce
In 2015, this reporter filed RTI applications in every police station in Hyderabad within the limits of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, asking for the FIRs registered after the death of any conservancy worker forced into a manhole. Over the next year, after a scrutiny of the FIRs, numbering in the hundreds, these were my…