For two decades, Uganta Umarwal, a mother of three, suffered severe social discrimination as she went about her daily work cleaning toilets, her situation typifying the wider plight of the Dalit people in Indias hierarchical caste-based society. The intervention of an NGO that campaigns to alleviate the plight of manual scavengers has helped her to learn new skills and transform her life for the better
Indias untouchables offered opportunity of a better life
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