Goodbye to manual scavenging? IIT Madras develops robots for task

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, have developed a robot to clean septic tanks without human intervention. Image used for representational purpose only. Photograph: PTI......

'Why do human beings have to clean shit?'

'I realised we are not doing scavenging because we are illiterate or poor. We are doing it because of the way society is organised,' says Bezwada Wilson, who has been awarded the Magsaysay Prize.......

'Even if one person dies because of Aadhaar, you scrap Aadhaar'

'You want poor people who take 5 kg rice to produce an Aadhaar card.''The poor man may or may not have Aadhaar.''Poor people are losing their food and dying.' In 2012, Bezwada Wilson was among......

'Do you want the poor to pay even to shit?'

'We cannot let this country be a place where the poor pay to shit.'That is inhuman and unacceptable.' Bezwada Wilson, Magsaysay Award winner for 2016 and national convenor of the Safai Karamchari......