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SC seeks details from Centre on steps taken to stop manual scavenging

 The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to apprise it about the status of implementation of a 2013 law that prohibits manual scavenging and the steps taken to rehabilitated people falling within the......

SC orders Centre, states to eradicate manual scavenging in phased manner

 Observing that a large segment of India's population, involved in manual scavenging, has remained unheard and muted, in bondage and systematically trapped in inhumane conditions, the Supreme Court......

634 deaths related to manual scavenging recorded in 25 years

 More than 600 people have died while cleaning septic tanks and sewers across the country in the past 25 years, according to data collated by the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis.......

Manual scavenging -- a national shame

 While India is going in a great path towards becoming digital India there are some things which are shame to our nation. One of it is the manual scavenging. Manual scavenging is a caste-based......

Bill to ban manual scavenging to be brought in Parliament

 Nine years after a Public Interest Litigation said that over five lakh people were engaged in manual scavenging across the country, the government on Monday told the Supreme Court that a bill aimed......

Can 'Toil-o-preneurs' solve India's sanitation woes

 On the one had are sanitation oriented social enterprises and on the other are awareness raising campaigns by government, writes Rajni Bakshi. A law that bans toilets where human excreta has......

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