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'Dirty, horrible job' of manual scavengers

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In the second of his reports from India, correspondent Mike Thomson travelled to rural Bihar to meet the so called manual scavengers whose work - removing human waste from dry latrines - has been outlawed by the government due to prejudice and abuse.


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