Beating all odds, 36-year-old Sunil Yadav, a street sweeper employed with the BMC today swept his way to success by securing an MPhil degree from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) here.

Yadav, who is deployed at Nana Chowk in Central Mumbai for the cleaning job, now aims to pursue a PhD degree to understand the problems plaguing the sweeper class and wants to find solutions to it.


"I am elated on securing my MPhil. By doing PhD, I want to deeply study the social system that has marginalised our (sweeper) class in the society," Yadav, who secured seventh rank in his post masters' degree with 'Globalisation and Labour' as the subject told PTI after the convocation ceremony today.

Even after securing a good rank, Yadav wants to continue with his job as a sweeper.

"I am not going to leave this job. Rather I will continue to work for the BMC. I am not interested in any corporate job. Instead, I want to empower my fraternity in understanding their rights and fight for it. I want to be the voice of the down-trodden to wipe out all sort of discrimination within the society," he said.