Mike Rowe from Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs has had his fair share of doing downright nasty jobs, but he makes good cash, wears the correct protection, and has a fancy home to go to after filming is done. Spare a thought for Ramesh Sahu, a sewer technician who works for the sanitation department of Calcutta most likely makes fuck-all cash and is doomed to do this job for the rest of his life.
Several people, like Ramesh have to clean out the sewers without any protective gear, and many die from deadly diseases and noxious gases from the depths below. Apparently Government guidelines says that helmets, gloves, and goggles should be worn, but the third-party contractors who hire these slumdog sewer men don’t seem to take much notice of rules.
See more images at The Telegraph. [via A Welsh View]
4 replies on “Indian Sewer Men: The Worst Job in the World”
I keep trying to convince myself that he has engine grease all over him.
But that’s the way that part of the world operates. absolute disregard for the welfare of citizens there.
I think in this case, ignorance is bliss. I too will think its engine grease, or yummy chocolate.
Before I read this post, I was totally moping about how kak my job is. That’s not going to happen again in a hurry. Poor dude – he’s like a skinny poo mole.
Thats bad… work in a sh!t place and get paid sh!t, go home to eat sh!t… Sh!t thats bad