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Delhi HC orders ₹30 lakh compensation to kin of 3 deceased sanitation workers

New Delhi, The Delhi High Court has directed the city authorities to pay ₹30 lakh compensation each to the families of three sanitation workers who died during manual scavenging in 2017. Delhi HC orders ₹ 30 lakh compensation to kin of 3 deceased sanitation workers The HC allowed the petition by the family members seeking higher ex gratia in accordance …

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The Gujarat High Court took a strong stance against the state government for its failure to disburse compensation to the families of 16 sanitation workers who lost their lives during manual scavenging incidents between 1993 and 2014. The court, hearing a public interest litigation filed by the NGO Manav Garima, sought clarification from the government on its implementation of the …

On March 22, 2018, a shroud of fear and anxiety enveloped M. Manikyala Rao as he wearily made his way home. The last such survey, conducted in 2018 across the country as per the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, revealed that there are “1,793 manual scavengers in Andhra Pradesh”. “Many workers in these districts did receive a one-time cash …

A day after the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment said that 530 out of 766 districts in the country have reported themselves as free of manual scavenging, including all the districts in Tamil Nadu, workers were found engaged in manual scavenging in Coimbatore on Thursday. “It was painful to see the man standing inside the clogged manhole and clearing …

Manual Scavenging: Madhya Pradesh High Court Takes Suo Motu Cognizance After Recent Death Of 2 Contract Workers Inside Sewer Hole

Observing that it is unfortunate that the persons employed to do the work in a sewer hole lost their lives, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the continuing manual scavenging in the state after the recent death of two workers in Gwalior. While issuing notice to the State, the bench of Chief Justice Ravi Malimath …

Sanitation workers of Dharmapuri | An inhuman job, administrative corruption and caste bias

A man is squatting over a clogged public toilet scooping out human faeces with a small mug and pouring it into a bucket. Until 2018, even after the passage of Manual Scavenging laws in 2013, every Saturday, the town panchayat administration would gather its sanitation workers at the village grounds to clean the human faeces collected over the week from …

Delhi excise policy case | AAP workers, leaders detained amid protest over Sisodia questioning The CBI on February 26 began its second round of questioning of Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam case. Will continue to ask questions about Adani till truth is out: Rahul Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on February 26 said …

ADILABAD: The banned manual scavenging is continuing in the municipalities in the erstwhile Adilabad district despite the governmental claims to stop this practice. The sanitation workers may not clean the wet toilets but they clean the drainages into which shit flows in various ways. “In practice, the sanitation workers of the municipality clean the drainages in which the human excreta …

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New Delhi: No one succumbed to manual scavenging in India but 941 workers died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks in the last three decades, the government told Parliament on Wednesday, triggering condemnation from activists. However, we have reports regarding deaths of workers while being engaged in cleaning of sewers or septic tanks,” he said, listing out 941 deaths since …

Even in 2020, the Indian government and our civil society continue to grapple with the inhuman nature of manual scavenging. While civil society started a movement in the 1990s to abolish dry latrines, the focus now is on manhole deaths and provision of safety equipment to sanitation workers. Until the introduction of the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of …