10 years ago

Plea to implement law against manual scavenging

The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Central and State governments and other agencies concerned to file an affidavit by four weeks to a writ petition seeking the implementation of all the provisions of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act in Tamil Nadu. The new law banned the employment of persons for manual scavenging, including that of hazardous cleaning of sewers, drainage and septic tanks. Despite this, manual scavenging and entry of workers into sewage manholes and septic tanks continued unabated in Chennai and other cities of Tamil Nadu. Mr. Narayanan said identification of families of all persons who died while doing manual scavenging in sewerage since 1993 should be completed.

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