Manual Scavengers

Manual Scavenging Still Continues In India Due To Weak Laws: UN Study

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 15, 2019

Manual scavenging, banned through a legislation in 2013, still prevailed in India due to ''weak legal protection and lack of enforcement'' of the rules, according to a new global study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and others.

"Sending People To Gas Chambers": Top Court Fumes About Manual Scavenging

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Wednesday September 18, 2019

Around five people employed as manual scavengers die every month, the Supreme Court said today, pulling up the government for not providing protective gear like gas masks and oxygen cylinders to such workers.

"No Other Country Sends People To Gas Chamber": Top Court On Sewer Deaths

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 18, 2019

Expressing serious concern over people dying during manual scavenging and sewage cleaning in India, the Supreme Court today said nowhere in the world people are sent to "gas chambers to die".

Robots For Sewer Cleaning: Delhi Minister To Meet Kerala Engineers

Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Sunday July 7, 2019

The Delhi government is mulling over roping in robots to clean sewers in the city''s inaccessible narrow lanes and Social Justice Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam will travel to Kerala in July end to talk to a group of engineers in this regard.

7 Die Of Suffocation While Cleaning Gujarat Hotel Septic Tank

India News | Reported by Saurabh Gupta, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Saturday June 15, 2019

Seven people, including four sanitation workers, died of suffocation while cleaning a hotel sewer in Gujarat, officials have told NDTV, in the latest incident that highlights the appalling conditions that they have to work under. The men had entered the septic tank without any safety gear, news agency AFP reported.

Workers Doing India's Dirtiest Job Say PM Modi Has Failed Them

India News | Reuters | Sunday April 7, 2019

Five sanitation workers, all from the lowest rung of India's caste system, were chosen in late February to meet a very important guest: Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Delhi May Use Robots To Clean Sewers, Septic Tanks

Delhi News | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday February 21, 2019

In an attempt to fully eradicate manual scavenging from the Indian capital, the Delhi government is working towards robotic solutions for cleaning sewers and septic tanks.

On World Toilet Day, A New Machine Aims To End India's Sewer Death Shame

India News | Agence France-Presse | Monday November 19, 2018

Hundreds of "manual scavengers" die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India but a machine unveiled for Monday's World Toilet Day could help to end that tragic record.

Hope Machine To End Woes Of Manual Scavengers Involved In Cleaning Sewer

India News | Agence France-Presse | Monday November 19, 2018

Hundreds of "manual scavengers" die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India, but a machine unveiled on World Toilet Day today could help to end that tragic record. Thousands of people, especially below poverty line, are employed in one of the world's dirtiest jobs unclogging human waste from underground pipes.

Sad Manual Scavenging Exists After 70 Years Of Independence: Kejriwal

Delhi News | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday November 6, 2018

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today rued the existence of manual scavenging even 70 years after India's Independence, underscoring his government's resolve to eliminate the practice.

Safety Gear Not Provided To Man Who Died Inside Delhi Sewer: Ministry

Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Monday October 29, 2018

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment said today the man who died working inside a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) sewage pumping station tank in northwest Delhi was not provided the prescribed safety gear.

On Manual Scavenging, Centre Keen On Time-Bound Approach: Minister

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Friday October 12, 2018

Union Social Justice Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot on Thursday said the central was keen on eradicating manual scavenging in a time-bound manner, urging states to implement the relevant law in letter and spirit.

100 Families Given Rs 10 Lakh For Deaths Due To Manual Scavenging

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday October 5, 2018

The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis has ensured payment of mandatory compensation of Rs 10 lakh to 100 families whose members died as a result of manual scavenging, NCSK chairman Manhar Valjibhai Zala said Thursday.

Induct Manual Scavengers In Civil Defence: Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday September 25, 2018

Taking a serious view of the recent deaths of manual scavengers in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday directed the officials to identify the persons engaged in manual scavenging and rehabilitate them in Civil Defence corps.

Swachh Bharat A "Hollow Slogan": Rahul Gandhi After Sewer Worker's Death

Delhi News | Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday September 19, 2018

Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the "tragic death" of sewer worker Anil in west Delhi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said "PM's Swachh Bharat is a hollow slogan, when he is blind to the plight of thousands of manual scavengers".