'Manual Scavenging In India' - 30 News Result(s)
- India News | Reported by Manish Kumar, Edited by Akhil Kumar | Saturday December 31, 2022Such a milestone, however, is not new for Gaya. Bhagwati Devi, a woman from the highly marginalised musahar community, who was a stone crusher by profession, was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Gaya constituency in 1996.
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- Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday September 27, 2022Delhi High Court today lamented the death of two persons who inhaled toxic gases inside a sewer in the national capital earlier this month and observed that despite there being laws, scavenging work continues to be performed.
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- India News | Reported by J Sam Daniel Stalin | Thursday June 30, 2022More than 900 people involved in manual scavenging have died since 1993 due to asphyxia while cleaning septic tanks. To end this practice, Solinar a start up from IIT Madras developed this robotic system mounted on a tractor, in consultation with loc
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- India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday February 2, 2022A total of 321 people, including 22 in 2021, died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks since 2017, the government said on Wednesday.
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- India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 8, 2021The Madras High Court directed all Municipal Corporation Commissioners of the state and heads of Municipalities to file written undertakings stating that no manual scavenging work will be permitted in their areas while assuming office in future.
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- India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday August 10, 2021Over 300 people died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks in the last five years, the government said Tuesday, adding, no deaths have been reported due to manual scavenging.
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- India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday March 11, 2021Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked the government over deaths of 389 people in the country while manually cleaning sewers from 2015 to 2019 and alleged that it had "failed" to implement the Manual Scavenging Act.
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- India News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 15, 2019Manual 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.
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- India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 18, 2019Expressing 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".
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- Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Sunday July 7, 2019The 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.
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- India News | Reported by Saurabh Gupta, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Saturday June 15, 2019Seven 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.
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- India News | Reuters | Sunday April 7, 2019Five 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.
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- India News | Agence France-Presse | Monday November 19, 2018Hundreds 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.
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- India News | Agence France-Presse | Monday November 19, 2018Hundreds 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.
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- Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Monday October 29, 2018The 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.
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'Manual Scavenging In India' - 30 News Result(s)
- India News | Reported by Manish Kumar, Edited by Akhil Kumar | Saturday December 31, 2022Such a milestone, however, is not new for Gaya. Bhagwati Devi, a woman from the highly marginalised musahar community, who was a stone crusher by profession, was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Gaya constituency in 1996.
www.ndtv.com
- Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday September 27, 2022Delhi High Court today lamented the death of two persons who inhaled toxic gases inside a sewer in the national capital earlier this month and observed that despite there being laws, scavenging work continues to be performed.
www.ndtv.com
- India News | Reported by J Sam Daniel Stalin | Thursday June 30, 2022More than 900 people involved in manual scavenging have died since 1993 due to asphyxia while cleaning septic tanks. To end this practice, Solinar a start up from IIT Madras developed this robotic system mounted on a tractor, in consultation with loc
www.ndtv.com
- India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday February 2, 2022A total of 321 people, including 22 in 2021, died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks since 2017, the government said on Wednesday.
www.ndtv.com
- India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 8, 2021The Madras High Court directed all Municipal Corporation Commissioners of the state and heads of Municipalities to file written undertakings stating that no manual scavenging work will be permitted in their areas while assuming office in future.
www.ndtv.com
- India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday August 10, 2021Over 300 people died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks in the last five years, the government said Tuesday, adding, no deaths have been reported due to manual scavenging.
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- India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday March 11, 2021Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked the government over deaths of 389 people in the country while manually cleaning sewers from 2015 to 2019 and alleged that it had "failed" to implement the Manual Scavenging Act.
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- India News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 15, 2019Manual 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.
www.ndtv.com
- India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 18, 2019Expressing 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".
www.ndtv.com
- Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Sunday July 7, 2019The 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.
www.ndtv.com
- India News | Reported by Saurabh Gupta, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Saturday June 15, 2019Seven 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.
www.ndtv.com
- India News | Reuters | Sunday April 7, 2019Five 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.
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- India News | Agence France-Presse | Monday November 19, 2018Hundreds 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.
www.ndtv.com
- India News | Agence France-Presse | Monday November 19, 2018Hundreds 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.
www.ndtv.com
- Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Monday October 29, 2018The 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.
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