*The great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Babasaheb Ambetkar, Mahatma Jyoti Phule, worked hard to educate the masses and make them realize that they should get proper treatment from the society.

Sweeper

He sweep the roads clean and we remove the garbage you all through. Sometimes, the garbage stinks. He become sick but he does not complain.

You all throw sharp objects out of you windows. They hurt badly at times but nobody cares. Many people do things that they should not do blame him.

Drainage cleaner

Going down the manholes and cleaning the sewers is a horrible task. He is not given masks to cover our faces. He is not given protection for our feet. Everybody throws plastic bags and other undesirable things in the drainage. The drainage gets blocked. When the rain comes the roads are flooded. The traffic stops, electric supply is interrupted. But for all this, we are blamed.

We want nothing more but a little consideration from the society.

Construction worker

You live in tall buildings, in big houses which we built. We climb to great heights, carry bricks, sand, stones etc. sometimes we have to climb to the top floors, without proper support and are exposed to great risks.

• Our houses are thatched shelters, changing as we move our places of work. Our children are just running, changing as we move our places of work.
• Our children are just jumping about in the sun.
• Our babies are tied in hammocks to the branches of trees.
• Fortunately, mobile crèches provide some solution as they teach our children and look after them. The mobile crèche vans do not always comes as they have to go to many other places.

Post man

He brings you letters, percales, greetings etc.

Whether in extreme heat, cold or rain, and he do his work. He climbs so many floors every day in many buildings. As it is extremely tiring at times, it was suggested that every buildings should have a mail box on the ground floor in a common place and that the residents should collect their mail from there. This did not work. People felt that some important letters may be lost so the same old system continues. People welcome him eagerly, as he brings news. When there was a postal strike, people were upset as important letters reached late.

Milk supplier

He brings milk to your door everyday and supplies you with energy food.

He gets up early in the morning and goes to the milk center. If the milk van comes early we are lucky; otherwise he has problems. People get displeased, if the milk is delivered late. So he always has to be in a hurry. There are some people, who do not open the door soon enough, he has to ring the bell or knock several times. Some milkmen indulge in wrong practices, and hence he has looked upon with suspicion.

Vegetables vender

He brings the vegetables to your doorsteps.

He goes to Gudimalkapur to fetch them from the whole sale market. He did not get the vegetable cheaper as before because the main wholesale market. They have to travel in crowded vans.

In the market the prices are very high selecting fresh and good vegetables is indeed of difficult task as they have to purchase them within a limited budget.

Any way, it is job of him. He has to do it, whatever be the difficulties. Some of the customers are understanding and do not mind paying a little more. Others bargain and sometimes put to great loss.

• Written by M.Radha .
• In category Social Life.
• 13 years ago.

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