Caste endogamy of labor persists even within state employment

Evidence

There is one government department in which Dalits are over-represented by a factor of six. Almost 90 per cent of those designated as sweepers—who clean streets, who go down manholes and service the sewage system, who clean toilets and do menial jobs—and employed by the Government of India are Dalits. (Even this sector is up for privatisation now, which means private companies will be able to subcontract jobs on a temporary basis to Dalits for less pay and with no guarantee of job security.) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 77

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• India’s government sanitation workforce is nearly nine-tenths Dalit (similarity 0.89)
• Organised sector employment in India remains scarce relative to population (similarity 0.81)
• India’s Railways formally employs Dalits in illegal manual scavenging work (similarity 0.80)
• Organised sector jobs are extremely scarce relative to India’s population. (similarity 0.79)