In Thoothukudi, four people, without earnings for several months due to the lockdown, went for sanitation work to the house of A Somasundaram on his request to clean his septic tank in July. The four members, who were supposed to […]
The Punjab State Safai Karamchari Commission has constituted a second special investigation team (SIT) to probe the incident of assault on a Dalit youth. The victim was allegedly forced to drink urine at Chak Janisar village of Fazilka district on […]
Two men have died after they inhaled toxic gases while cleaning a septic tank in northwest Delhi’s Azadpur area, police said on Monday. At 6.45 pm on Sunday, police received information that in a gold factory in Azadpur’s G-Block, three […]
News on COVID-19 and headlines around the gut-wrenching Hathras rape together obscured a new proposed Bill. The contents of the proposed Manual Scavenging Prohibition Bill are of little interest to the average reader. Nevertheless, it impacts several thousands of people […]
Strikes and protests by various members of the Valmiki community against the injustice in the Hathras case have taken the country by storm in what seems to be one of the most significant agitations for the 19-year-old Dalit women. Sanitation […]
A two-day webinar on “Sensitisation towards Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes” was inaugurated by DGP Vivek Johri at the state Police Headquarters. The two-day training webinar is aimed to enhance sensitization in policemen to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes and […]
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment tells Parliament that the scheme for manual scavenging prevention and rehabilitation is not applicable to those sanitation workers who are not identified as manual scavengers. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment said […]
New Delhi: A total of 631 people have died in the country while cleaning sewers and septic tanks in the last 10 years, the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) said. The figure was provided by the NCSK in response […]
One of 23 Bills to be tabled in Parliament during the ongoing 18-day Monsoon Session is the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020. This is set to amend the law enacted in 2013, which […]
The Union government is set to introduce The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020 in the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament. The Bill proposes to completely mechanise sewer cleaning, introduce ways for ‘on-site’ protection […]
