Mysore/Mysuru: One of the biggest problems in cities is the profession of manual scavenging. Although laws have been made to stop the practice, human scavengers are forced to enter and clean the manholes with their hands even today, a major reason being a lack of proper technological solutions to take their place.
The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has procured a manhole-cleaning robot called ‘Bandicoot,’ which would help end the practice of manual scavenging and it has already been put to work regularly from wherever complaints of sewage blockages are received at the control room.
