Sep 6, 2008

TEACH INDIA how to LEAD INDIA with millions doing filthy jobs like “Night Soil workers” ,”Rat catchers","Mortician"&"conservancy worker"

I guarantee you that reading this article will educate you for sure on unique JOB Openings .It will also make you feel ugly and sorry on the state of affair of thousands of workers who take-up filthy assignment.

Jobs are really hard come by in Mumbai . Reason to believe this was when I heard political interference in the recruitment of “ Rat Catchers “. Yes you read it right …..

1)RAT CATCHERS : Job description of this profile is to kill a minimum of 30 rats a night, anything above that gets them a bonus of Rs. 5 per rat. If they kill less than the required number, they get just three days to fill the backlog. Salary offered is Rs 8,000 a month plus incentives. Also one needs to perform consistently for three years for the corporation to confirms them . Recently , the municipal corporation (Mumbai ) in the first round of recruitment hired 13 rat catchers out of close to 400 who had applied for the job. Only 39 of the 400 cleared the written test and only 13 of the 39 aced the practicals.

It seems that the corporation needs 30 more to keep the city’s rat population in the check and recruitment advertisements for the same would be out soon.

Few more openings that I read recently are:

2)NIGHT SOIL WORKERS – Job describes the daily work of manually cleaning and removing human excreta from dry (non-flush) toilets across India. If dignity is denied to people without toilets, what is left for people who clean up human excrement?

3)MORTICIAN – Morgue is where dead people are stored until they go to the funeral home for burial or cremation. A mortician is someone who works at a funeral home and prepares the body for burial, cremation and prepares for the funeral. In Hospitals, Although medical officers are supposed to carry out post mortem examinations, in actual fact it is the doms, a sub-caste of the Dalits (untouchables), who are usually completely uneducated and often drunk on the job, simply cut the bodies and open them using crude tools while the doctors are simply observers and sign the necessary documents.

4)CONSERVANCY WORKERS: Job requires to keep the roads and lanes clean .The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) planning to appoint 6,000 workers to keep the roads and lanes in the suburbs clean. BMC already has almost 34,000 conservancy workers to clean the city.

I hope “Guaranteed Rojgar Ujna “ initiative is not opening us such Jobs.

Reading these JD , my maid and car cleaner will feel lucky and good at the Jobs they are doing .

Last Diwali I gave the Rs 5000 /- to initiate micro finance . This time I plan to give gloves to the BMC workers who come with the van to collect the waste.

Join me in this initiative by providing safety kits to people who are doing thankless CRITICAL jobs in our society

1 comment:

Unknown said...

good piece, though quite saddening. jobs that challenge what you and i think are defined as "dignified" should have at least equipments to make it more acceptable (if you call it that).