New Delhi, April 4 -- A post by Jasveer Singh has sparked widespread discussion on X (formerly Twitter). The Co-Founder and CEO of Knot Dating argues that India's cleanliness problem has nothing to do with awareness or infrastructure. And, it has everything to do with caste conditioning, he says.

In his post, Singh has written that Indians do not litter because they lack civic sense. They litter, he argues, because they genuinely believe cleaning is not their job. And, that belief has been drilled into people for generations through the caste system.

Singh points out that caste in India was never only about social hierarchy. It was fundamentally about the division of labour. Cleaning was pushed to the very bottom of that hierarchy.

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