They have power, just show them how.

Activist called Bezwada Wilson has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award along with a singer, TM Krishna. Bezwada Wilson has been working to eradicate manual scavenging, which is cleaning faeces from homes and railways. Seems that some homes still continue to use a commode system for evacuating bladder and bowel which are then cleaned by these scavengers. It is disgusting and degrading work and must be eliminated but, as with any other human activity, it is not so simple. Firstly, those who are doing this work have to be found new avenues of earning a living otherwise they will starve and secondly, those who are still using this system need to upgrade their toilet facilities. Which means connecting them to sewers or building septic tanks. Sewers can only be built by municipalities or state governments and miles of sewers to connect every village will be enormously expensive and the sewage thus collected has to be disposed of in a safe manner. Individual septic tanks are cheaper but even so households may not be able or willing to bear the necessary cost and there is a danger of contaminating the water table. Unfortunately, the best intentions in India become a reason for bashing Hindus. Apparently it is the fault of upper castes and they should be punished for it. No one is forcing these people to do this work and they should just stop doing it, forcing people to upgrade their bathrooms or go out to the fields. Dalits are not powerless as they have shown in Gujarat by refusing to remove carcasses of dead cows, after some were assaulted. Faeces is undigested food and every creature that eats, animals, birds, fish and insects, has to get rid of that waste so that it is able to eat again. Even unconscious patients, who are not eating by mouth, pass faeces, consisting of dead bacteria, which reside in the gut. In foreign countries, nurses, who are well paid and respected, clean patients and are not considered to be slaves. Women who work as scavengers are probably illiterate, so will not be able to work as nurses, but could be trained as nursing assistants, to clean patients, do dressings and chaperone male doctors, when nurses are busy. Trouble is that they will have to leave their villages and go to towns where hospitals are located. That is where Mr Wilson should be paying attention. Meanwhile, taxis and autorickshaws went on strike for 3 days against app-based taxis, such as Uber and Ola. As usual Chief Minister Kejriwal was quick to blame the BJP for instigating the strike. But, auto drivers are all fervent supporters of Kejriwal and helped him win the election. One short shower brings Delhi to a standstill because drains have not been cleaned and roads are broken. Is that the fault of the BJP? We seem to have an infinite capacity to avoid the truth. Maybe that is why we are so poor.