Sewers in India are like gas chambers where manual scavengers are sent to die, the Supreme Court remarked.
Issue
Context
Sewers in India are like gas chambers where manual scavengers are sent to die, the Supreme Court remarked.
Background
Who is a 'manual scavenger'?
What is Manual Scavenging?
What is this law (The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013) about? Law makes it an offence to: • Employ people as manual scavengers to clean insanitary latrines. • Employ people to clean sewers and septic tanks without protective gear. • Construct insanitary latrines. • Not demolish or convert insanitary latrines within a certain period of this Act coming into force. |
Causes of Manual Scavenging
Effects of Manual Scavenging
Solutions of Manual Scavenging
Learning Aid
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