Home » Manual Scavenging

Manual Scavenging

ARTICLES  / DALIT NEWS  / Dalit Women  / DELHI  / Manual Scavenging  / NEWS  / STATE
Hundreds of women safai karmacharis take part in #StopKillingUs campaign in Delhi
arun Posted On September 26, 2023


Hundreds of women safai karmacharis gathered at the Jantar Mantar on August 28 in order expose the lies of the government about sewer and septic tank deaths at the Safai Karmachari Andolan’s (SKA’s) 475th day of #StopKillingUs campaign. BEZWADA WILSON    […]


Continue Reading
0
40 Views


ARTICLES  / DALIT NEWS  / DELHI  / Manual Scavenging
Victim of ‘hazardous’ jobs, Delhi sanitary workers get two thirds of minimum wages
arun Posted On September 26, 2023


Recently, the Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikar Manch (DASAM) organized a Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop for sewer workers and waste pickers from all across Delhi NCR. The workshop focused on bringing sanitation workers from different parts of Delhi to train […]


Continue Reading
0
49 Views


ARTICLES  / DALIT NEWS  / Dalit Women  / DELHI  / Manual Scavenging  / NEWS  / Woman
Hundreds of women safai karmacharis take part in #StopKillingUs campaign in Delhi
arun Posted On September 6, 2023


Hundreds of women safai karmacharis gathered at the Jantar Mantar on August 28 in order expose the lies of the government about sewer and septic tank deaths at the Safai Karmachari Andolan’s (SKA’s) 475th day of #StopKillingUs campaign. BEZWADA WILSON […]


Continue Reading
0
47 Views


ARTICLES  / DALIT NEWS  / Dalit Women  / Manual Scavenging  / NEWS  / STATE  / UTTAR PRADESH
‘Had No Choice,’ Says Manual Scavenger Who Cleaned Dry Toilets For 40 Years
arun Posted On August 5, 2023


Hellhole | The story of a Dalit woman who cleaned dry toilets manually for four decades. ANTHONY ROZARIO “It felt disgusting when I began cleaning dry toilets. I had no option,” said Santosh, as she remembered the day her mother-in-law […]


Continue Reading
0
142 Views


DALIT NEWS  / Manual Scavenging  / NEWS  / STATE  / TAMILNADU
Drainage work for Dalit settlement on with police security in Tamil Nadu
arun Posted On June 20, 2023


V Palanisamy, a person from SC community, said, “We wanted the channel badly for our locality, where 60 families live. During rainy season, our area gets inundated. COIMBATORE:  Police personnel stood guard as panchayat officials started work on Monday to […]


Continue Reading
0
139 Views


ARTICLES  / DALIT NEWS  / HISTORY & CULTURE  / Manual Scavenging  / NATIONAL  / NEWS
Pa Ranjith: A Sane Voice Of Dalits Or A Slave Of Arivalayam?
arun Posted On May 31, 2023


On 28 May 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new Parliament building and installed the historic Sengol, while Tamil Hindu Aadhenams sang Thevaaram songs inside the parliament. This is the same Sengol which was presented to India’s first Prime […]


Continue Reading
0
370 Views


ARTICLES  / Manual Scavenging  / NATIONAL
Manual Scavenging continues unabated, Indian Govts turns a deaf ear to acknowledge this systemic, extreme violence
arun Posted On April 21, 2023


Even as Supreme Court directs governments to meet to discuss implementation of a central law, abolition of manual scavenging, a callous system has a lukewarm response Tanya Arora quality anywhere is a threat to equality everywhere’ -Martin Luther King Jr.‘Ine […]


Continue Reading
0
123 Views


DALIT NEWS  / Manual Scavenging  / NEWS  / STATE  / TELANGANA
Dalit Sanitation Worker Dies by Suicide in Gram Panchayat Office in Telangana
arun Posted On March 14, 2023


It is claimed that his salary has not been paid for the past four months A video with disturbing visuals is doing rounds on social media. In the video, a man can be seen having died by suicide while a […]


Continue Reading
0
146 Views


ARTICLES  / Manual Scavenging  / NATIONAL
The IIT-Startup working to end manual scavenging in India wins big on Shark Tank
arun Posted On January 27, 2023


The Chennai-based startup provides robotic solutions for the sanitation industry, such as robots for cleaning septic tank cleaning and pipeline detection. SRISHTI MAGAN Incubated at IIT Madras, the startup won the award for the Best on Campus category at ET […]


Continue Reading
0
244 Views


Atrocities  / DALIT NEWS  / Manual Scavenging  / NATIONAL  / NEWS  / STATE
BJP Accuses DMK MLA Of ‘forcing Dalit Man To Do Manual Scavenging’; MLA Refutes Claims
arun Posted On January 5, 2023


The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tamil Nadu has demanded action against DMK MLA from Chennai’s RK Nagar constituency, alleging that the ruling party MLA was present when a corporation worker was forced to do manual scavenging. Attacking the RK […]


Continue Reading
0
192 Views