Safai Workers

A person who usually sweeps the public roads and is employed by the government or a private agency.

A person engaged or employed by an individual or a local authority or a public or private agency, for manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling in any manner, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or pit into which human excreta from insanitary latrines is disposed of, or on a railway track, before the excreta fully decomposes, and the expression “manual scavenging” shall be interpreted accordingly; The practice is prevalent in areas that lack proper sewage systems such as Budaun district in India with more than 50,000 manual scavengers.

Community Dry latrines (CDL) - big structure used collectively by the people and Individual Dry Latrines (IDL) - present at individual houses. In both these cases, humans are employed for cleaning excreta on a day today basis, and are the monuments of untouchability in India.

Whenever passengers use train toilets while trains are halted at stations, the excreta directly falls on the railway tracks beside the platforms.
The tracks littered with human feces are cleaned by a human work-force.

People responsible for collecting garbage from households in urban areas.