India's Backbone- the Dalits but They Get the Wrong end of the Stick?

Boston Globe writes about the Economic Boom of India on the backbones of Untouchables and Poor people?.

"Today the outward story of India is one of a boom, of new construction projects, of growth. But that boom is on the backs of the poor and lower castes who are building this new India," said Mridula Bajaj, former executive director of Mobile Creches. "Does a new India want to live with thousands of worker slums next to five-star hotels and offices?"

Under India's ancient caste system, manual labor such as cleaning latrines, sweeping streets, hauling loads, and firing cooking bricks is stigmatized as work performed by those at the bottom of the hierarchy.

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Gudiya and her parents are among an estimated 40 million people, mainly unskilled porters, bricklayers, and other laborers, who have left poor and remote areas to build the new India in emerging towns such as Gurgaon, just outside India's capital. By contrast, an estimated 2 million people work in software jobs. The construction industry is one of India's largest employers and is growing at a rate of 15 percent a year".