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These poor sewage cleaners must surely have the WORST job in the whole wide world. They clean the sewage generated by the politicians of India!!! And all this for a daily wage of Rs. 100 or US$2. The Indian monsoon is a difficult landscape to negotiate for the best of us, but for people living life at the poverty line, it is something else altogether. For all those Congress government tag-lines about 1 lakh crores spent on NREGA and poverty alleviation, when you see such images you realize that some things will never change in India! The babus and mantris living in Lutyens' Delhi have it all - water, electricity, broad leafy tree-lined roads, security staff, contingents of CISF security staff, black cats and commandos, Agusta Westland helicopters, Airbus corporate jets and Bombardiers, MP
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