In Mumbai, the municipal corporation has deployed a sewer cleaning robot to get rid of manual scavenging. The civic body has decided to use robots to clean the clogged sewers in the city instead of using the labourers.
There have been incidents of suffocation of workers while cleaning the sewers in various civic bodies. In order to avoid such a situation, the civic body has decided to use robots to clean the manholes.
After the use of robots the citizens will get some relief from the blocked sewers. As the capacity of the underground sewers is exhausted, the sewers are blocked at many places and sewage can be seen flowing on the streets, the robots can perform the task of cleaning in a shorter time.
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