Order of the High Court of Orissa regarding death of sanitation workers during manual scavenging, Odisha, 31/05/2021
Order of the High Court of Orissa in the matter of In Re Death of Sanitation Workers Vs Chief Secretary & Others dated 31/05/2021.
The HC directed the Water Corporation of Odisha (WATCO) to file an affidavit about the issue of disbursement of compensation to the families of the sanitation workers in two incidents - one at Bhubaneswar and the other in Cuttack. During the course of the hearing attention was drawn to the fact about two more sanitation workers losing their lives in Kandhamal district.