Ask States to enforce ban on manual scavenging
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17/10/2008
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Hindu (New Delhi)
J. Venkatesan
NEW DELHI: Chairman of Law Commission Justice A.R. Lakshmanan has written to the Union government to take up with six State governments the issue of manual scavenging still prevalent in their States and to ask them to enforce the ban.
In a letter written to Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Meira Kumar on October 14, Justice Lakshmanan pointed out that according to a report of the Safai Karamchari Andolan, about 13 lakh of people in the country