MPSC State Service 2020 · CSAT · Question 73 of 77

You are a member of one active group that organizes cleaning sessions in your area. After reaching the news that a safai karmachari dies every five days in India, all members of the group have become restless want to work toward changing this situation. You all are quite aware of the fact that the wretched manual scavengers briefly makes news when there is a sewer death due to asphyxiation or accident, but no authority is heard saying: ″This is our problem: we՚ll fix it. ″ You all are aware of the fact that though many notable persons talk of manual scavenging as a “spiritual experience” for any scavenger who cleans other people՚s excreta because there is no option and no alternative employment for those born into the castes identified with scavenging. According to estimates of some agencies number of scavengers in our country is closer to 1,50, 000. As a member of this group, you will persuade other members to give priority for …

Decision Making

1. ACollecting funds and finding innovators for developing technological gadgets that can take over the grossest (?) task of scavenging.
2. Btackling it as a social problem as the safai karmacharis come from castes, which have a long history of manual scavenging and enduring discrimination.
3. Cassisting scavengers to get empowered to fight injustice as when person grow in such a caste her or his ability to stand up to injustice is rendered lame at birth.
4. Dusing social media for making people at large sensitive toward the plight of these people and invite them to come together to pressurize the government to make their life safe and at least not a curse and for collecting needed funds.Correct