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Most Marginalized Communities children are often brought up by grandparents or other relatives while their parents migrate to the city for work. The families usually stop the children from school and put send them to work. Many times children are even used as bonded labourers to pay off the debts of the family.
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Our children live under many abnormal conditions in the family, society and schools which leave the child as a poorly socialized person or excluded from the society.
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In Indian Society, parents are happy when their girl child is married at the right age. This prejudices is much more strong in rural communities. This has been misused by rich spinning mill owners to employ and exploit the young Dalit girls in the name of marriage scheme called ‘Sumangali Thittam’.
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Manual scavenging is the practice of cleaning human excreta from dry latrines. This practice is illegal according to the Manual Scavengers and the Construction of Dry Latrines Prohibition Act which was passed in the year 1993. But many areas in India still practice manual scavenging and the provision of dry latrines. It is well known that all manual scavengers are Dalits.
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