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Women work their jharoos or brooms and use a tasla or metal bowl to collect street-side trash jettisoned by passing vehicles. A Public Works Department van stands by to take in the dirt. In their neat sarees, the women do the menial and dirty job of cleaning the streets of New Delhi, for careless motorists to further mess up with junk thrown out of their car windows. Being a daily wage labourer in India can be a dirty job, taking in the worst and most polluted air, and working on the dirty streets of the world's most polluted city. One of the women carries the tasle on her head, and empties the dirt into the truck. It is not easy being poor in India, and certainly no easier being a poor woman. Women workers in sarees on the streets of India, cleaning the roads for PWD department This foota
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