Imagine your city for ONE WEEK without each of these workers. Sort them — would the city still function reasonably well, or would things quickly break down?
Sort it!
1Weavers who supply cloth to tailor shops across the region
2A luxury jewellery store salesperson
3A social media influencer posting fashion content
4Construction labourers building new roads and bridges
5A star actor making television advertisements
6Cobblers repairing the shoes of workers who walk many kilometres daily
7Street food vendors who feed thousands of workers every day
8Sanitation workers who collect garbage and clean public drains
City would still run (less disruption)
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City would quickly break down (essential)
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2
Read each situation and fill in the missing word!
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Raju cleans the school toilets every day. He arrives early and works hard. His daughter says: 'Papa deserves to be treated with , just like any other worker.'
dignity
manual scavenging
equal
A student asked: 'Who wrote the rules that protect us from being treated unfairly?' The teacher replied: 'Dr B.R. and the Constituent Assembly — they gave us the Constitution.'
discrimination
Ambedkar
caste
A lawyer argued in court: 'Every citizen has rights under the law — the cleaner and the CEO both have the same legal protection.'
caste
rights
equal
The Indian was written to make sure every citizen has the same rights — regardless of religion, gender or background.
Constitution
discrimination
equal
For hundreds of years, the system in India decided what work a person could do — based only on the family they were born into, not their ability.
manual scavenging
caste
Ambedkar
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Sort each situation from a school or community — is it an example of treating people with DIGNITY or an example of DISCRIMINATION?
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1A municipality provided separate, clean changing rooms and lockers for sanitation workers
2At the community well, children from one family were told to wait and fill water after everyone else had gone — because of their caste
3A weaver was refused entry into a wedding hall because of her community's traditional occupation
4The school management gave safety gloves and boots to all the staff who clean the bathrooms
5The school principal asked all teachers and students to address the cook as 'Masterji' and thank him after the mid-day meal
6A craftsman's daughter was told she could only sit at the back of the class because her family's job was considered low
