Labourer, hair bleached white from drain, eats food on roadside in Delhi: Reward for hard day's work

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A PWD (Public Works Department) daily wage earner / labourer / worker eats food sitting on the roadside ground near Sarojini Nagar in New Delhi. Sad that this is his reward for a hard day's work. The man's hair has turned white by being bleached from frequent dips into the drains of Delhi city. After lunch, he gets back to his mucky job of sewage diving and cleaning the drains of Delhi by manual scavenging means. PWD worker eats food sitting on roadside ground near Sarojini Nagar: Reward for a hard day's work This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest HD and 4K collection from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion and Full HD. Write to us