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Chetandas tells that people from the basti used to come to clean the toilets and take away the waste. They were not allowed to enter the house.
- The people who used the toilets did not clean them. Discuss.
- Is there a toilet in your house? Who cleans it?
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Solution
- The people who used the toilet did not clean them, because they thought that it was a dirty job. Hence, people from basti used to come to clean the toilets and take away the waste.
- Yes, there are toilets in my house. We clean them.
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