Dadarao Babarao Patekar a resident of Shivaji Nagar, Chembur has been cleaning the streets of Mumbai for 22 years. Born and brought up in Mumbai, Dadarao is employed with the Brihanmumbai Mahanagarpalika Corporation (BMC) as a safai mazdoor (cleanup marshal). He is posted in M-West ward of the municipal zone of the city and employed on a contractual basis. The area under M-ward comprises G.M. Link Road to Suman Nagar Junction and from Mahul to Somayya Nallah.

Dadarao never wanted to become a sweeper and a cleanup marshal but he had to take up this work due to lack of education and other job opportunities. After young Dadarao flunked his SSC exams his mother requested an officer in the BMC to help him get a job. The BMC official got Babarao employed as a street sweeper in the civic body and since then there was no looking back.