MUMBAI: a father and his two sons after they became unconscious from toxic fumes emanating from an underground tank in a public toilet in Ambujwadi, Malad, last week. The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has started an inquiry into the deaths of a father and his two sons after they became unconscious from toxic fumes emanating from an underground tank …
Bindeshwar Pathak, the man behind Sulabh International, passed away on Tuesday following a cardiac arrest in New Delhi. The ‘Toilet Man of India’ built about 1.3 million toilets in Indian homes and 54 million public lavatories using reasonably priced two-pit technology Bindeshwar Pathak, the man behind India’s toilet-building revolution, passed away on Tuesday following a cardiac arrest in New Delhi. …
Five students of Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram have created a technologically advanced sewer cleaner as an alternative solution to manual scavenging. Read| Pandemic Pushed Students from Private to Govt Schools, More Girls Than Boys: ASER Report “While sewage cleaning is a huge issue in the country, the menace of manual scavenging has a socio-economic context. The practise has been banned …
On Wednesday, the Madras High Court quashed the FIR lodged against K. Divya, Director of Kakoos, a documentary film on manual scavenging. Baskar had alleged that documentary proceeded as if manual scavenging was done by a particular community called Thevendra Kula Vellalar, thereby defaming them. Divya had been charged under Section 153A and 505 of IPC r/w 66 F of …
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