Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of Balram Singh Vs Union of India & Others dated 20/10/2023 regarding manual scavenging. A petition was filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India seeking directions to Union of India and all the states and Union Territories to implement provisions, …
A 65-strong group of natives of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh — all of them former manual scavengers — is on a nation-wide tour educating the masses on the need to do away with manual scavenging. The National Maila Mukti Yatra (National Dignity Campaign) plans to travel 10,000 …
To create awareness among women still engaged in manual scavenging, though the government banned the practice two decades ago, a nationwide campaign involving 11,000 Dalit women is now going around the country. The campaign “ Maila Mukti Yatra ” (MMY) reached here on Monday. “According to the 2011 Census, there …
Describing manual scavenging as a matter involving “human dignity,” the Supreme Court today noted that the officials concerned in states were not doing their best to weed out this practice even though a Union minister apologised to the nation on this issue. “If we go by the media reports and …
LUCKNOW: Close to the submission of On the heels of submitting its report following Supreme Court's directive in the manual scavenging case, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation has found close to 25 dry toilets in zone-6, believed to be the worst affected area by this social curse in the city. Older …
Rapped by the Supreme Court for its failure to eliminate manual scavenging 65 years post-Independence, the government introduced in the just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament a new Bill to prohibit the practice and bar manual cleaning of septic tanks and sewers across India. The law, “The Prohibition of Employment as …
On the day a Bill to prohibit manual scavenging was to be introduced in Parliament, the Supreme Court “deprecated” some state administrations for their failure to disclose the situation of manual scavenging in their states and summoned their top bureaucrats. The SC on Monday summoned health or social welfare secretaries …
New Delhi: In the cleaning of nearly 13 lakh insanitary dry toilets across the country, human beings and animals play an almost equal role, the Supreme Court was told on Monday. In what could deal a severe blow to the sanitation claims of successive governments, petitioner NGO ‘Safai Karmachari Andolan’ …
A Bill to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers, rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their families, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The Union government on Monday told the Supreme Court that the Cabinet had cleared the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012. On August 24, the court pulled up the government for its callousness in not enacting a law to ban manual scavenging despite repeated assurances …
The inhuman practice of manual scavenging is prevalent in Berhampur, notwithstanding its ban. In 1993, the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act was implemented here for total removal of manual scavenging. While the Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the State Government slept over the issue, …
New Delhi: Authorities now face a jail term of five years for hazardous cleaning of septic tanks and sewers. The Cabinet on Thursday cleared a new legislation to end manual scavenging, with stiff penalties against the dehumanizing practice. The bill also proposes a rehabilitation package for scavengers. Agencies or families …
Pulling up the central government for “fooling the people of this country by not bringing in a concrete law to prohibit manual scavenging”, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the government if a Bill will be introduced in the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament. The Bench of Justices H L …
New Delhi: Taking note of recent incidents where sewer cleaners died of gas poisoning, Delhi Government has set-up a three member committee to prepare a report on safety norms for workers and transition to mechanized cleaning of sewers. The committee has to submit its report within a week. The Delhi …
Calcutta, June 27: The Mamata Banerjee government will soon launch a drive to find out the number of people involved in manual scavenging and offer them alternatives, the move coming days after the Centre pulled up the state for its failure to curb the humiliating practice. Chief secretary Samar Ghosh …
New Delhi: Days after poisonous gas at a sewage treatment plant killed two labourers, two cleaners died inside a Rohini sewer on Wednesday morning. Shankar (40) and Manoj (19), reportedly inhaled poisonous gas while cleaning a sewer in Sector 3, Rohini. Police said the sewer is in Delhi Development Authority’s …
New Delhi: Despite various guidelines issued by the Delhi high court and Supreme Court for protection of sewage cleaners, incidents of sewer deaths continue to multiply. Sources claim there have been at least 40 sewer related deaths in the last six months in the capital and yet the guidelines have …
The founder of an NGO, which works to eliminate manual scavenging, today offered his services to the government for eradicating the social evil in next three years. Speaking at a function here, Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh International, said he was prepared to go to jail if the work …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as sewerage and drainage projects of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar planned under the Integrated Sanitation Improvement Programme, are scheduled to be completed in two years, the work is very sluggish. Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik reviewed the progress of the externally- aided projects at a high-level meeting here recently. …
New Delhi: Pressure is building up to treat manual scavenging on a par with crimes against dalits, to be tried under the atrocities law which lays down stringent punishment. The union social justice ministry has asked the home ministry for details of cases filed by states for manual scavenging under …
New Delhi:While the Centre plans stiff penal provisions for manual cleaning of sewers and septic tanks, Delhi Commission for Safai Karamcharis (DCSK) has sought a complete ban on the same in Delhi by May 25. The Commission’s report called “Banning of manual sewer in Delhi” will be put before the …
