NewsClick

NewsClick
  • हिन्दी
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Covid-19
  • Science
  • Culture
  • India
  • International
  • Sports
  • Articles
  • Videos
search
menu

SUBSCRIBE AND SUPPORT

image/svg+xml
  • All Articles
  • Newsclick Articles
  • All Videos
  • Newsclick Videos
  • हिन्दी
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Science
  • Culture
  • India
  • Sports
  • International
  • Africa
  • Latin America
  • Palestine
  • Nepal
  • Pakistan
  • Sri Lanka
  • US
  • West Asia
About us
Grievance Redressal Mechanism
Newsletter
Facebook - Newsclick Twitter - Newsclick Instagram - Newsclick Youtube - Newsclick RSS - Newsclick
close menu
×
You deserve independent, critical media. Subscribe and Support
SC/ST/OBC
Politics
India

Three More Manual Scavengers Die in UP

This is the second case of sanitation workers’ death in less than a month in Uttar Pradesh.
Abdul Alim Jafri
20 Jul 2019
Manual Scavengers Die in UP

In yet another case of lack of protective gear leading to fatality, three manual scavengers lost their lives reportedly while cleaning a septic tank at a textile factory in Pilkhuwa of Hapur district in Uttar Pradesh.

According to reports, the incident took place on Friday afternoon at GS Das factory near Textile City Centre where dozens of workers are employed, but the manager of the factory had reportedly hired a few workers from Hapur city to clean the plant and septic tank.

The deceased have been identified as Ravi, Tara Shankar and Jitendra. One Yusuf got injured while reportedly saving the three workers, and was later shifted to the district hospital.

"Three labourers died after entering a septic tank in a factory today. Some labourers went down a tank to remove the byproduct of a colour plant in GS Das factory, a labourer fell unconscious, two others went down to save him. All three of them drowned. We will recommend magistrate inquiry and will ask to take action against illegal factories running in the state," Hapur police told the local media.

A local told NewsClick that these workers were hired by a private contractor to remove the byproduct of the colour factory. Local police officials, who rushed to the spot later, confirmed that all the three workers died inside the septic tank. Police are still investigating to find out whether these workers were provided any protective gear at the time of cleaning the tank or not.

Dharmendra Singh, SHO, Pilkhuwa, told NewsClick, "A case has been filed against the factory manager based on a complaint by a victim's wife and the probe is going on These three laborers were from Sultanpur, Jaunpur and Hapur."

Despite the high number of deaths of sanitation workers due to lack of required protective gear, the trend has remained unchanged. This is the second case of sanitation workers’ deaths in less than a month in Uttar Pradesh. Last month in Kanpur, two sanitation workers suffocated to death while cleaning a sewage chamber on the request of Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) under the Namami Gange project. The daily wage sanitation workers had been employed by a contractor to clean the sewage and they went inside without any protective gear.

Bezwada Wilson, national convenor of the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA) said, "It has become a routine thing in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. We are trying to collect full information about this incident and then we can take legal action against the factory. Nobody is taking any action against the contractors that's why this is happening on a daily basis, particularly in Uttar Pradesh. Meanwhile, we are writing a letter to the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC), chief minister and governor and we are going to organist a programme in Lucknow regarding the deaths of sanitation workers."

Meanwhile, during the Monsoon session, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale informed the Parliament that in the last three years, 88 people have lost their lives in the septic tanks. However, the fact is that 88 people have lost their lives in the last one year itself and they continue to suffer.

Also watch: Sweeping Sanitation Workers’ Issues Under the Rug

Get the latest reports & analysis with people's perspective on Protests, movements & deep analytical videos, discussions of the current affairs in your Telegram app. Subscribe to NewsClick's Telegram channel & get Real-Time updates on stories, as they get published on our website.
Sanitation Workers Death
Manual Scavengers
Hapur
Uttar Pradesh 
Related Stories
Bhasha Singh March 14

'Govt Should Ensure Justice or Push Us Into Sewer'

Liqour

Illicit Liquor Claims 13 Lives in Uttar Pradesh in a Week, 6 Dead in Prayagraj

Manual Scavenging Bill

New Manual Scavenging Bill Stresses on Technology, Ignores Caste

Under the schemes run to rehabilitate the manual scavengers in India, only 6% of the total identified manual scavengers have been imparted skill development training in the last two years. Similarly, one time cash assistance has been provided to only 2% of them. The figures have been published by a parliamentary standing committee on social justice and empowerment, which tabled its report in both houses of Parliament on December 12. Of the 42,303 manual scavengers identified in 2018 during the National Surv

Manual Scavengers: Only 2% Got Cash Assistance Under Rehab Scheme

manual scavenging

Human Excreta in Hand, Activists Protest Against Manual Scavenging in MP’s Shivpuri

UP Custodial Death: 7 Policemen

UP Custodial Death: 7 Policemen, Including Hapur SP, Charged with Murder

Chandu, 20 (in blue t-shirt), a rag picker from Bihar who works at Eco Green Energy earning about Rs. 200-300 per day.

Assembly Polls: ‘Not All Safai Karamcharis in Haryana Equal’

New Plan for Manual Scavengers Misses Crucial Questions, Just an Eyewash: Bejwada Wilson

New Plan for Manual Scavengers Misses Crucial Questions, Just an Eyewash: Bejwada Wilson

Sanitation Workers

Sweeping Sanitation Workers’ Issues Under the Rug

CATS Strike

CATS Workers Strike, Una Atrocity, Chile Strike and More

Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppShare via EmailShare on RedditShare on KindlePrint
Share
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppShare via EmailShare on RedditShare on KindlePrint
Share
You deserve independent, critical media. We want readers like you. Support independent, critical media. Subscribe to Newsclick.

Subscribe and Support


Latest

  • Assam

    Professor Arrested for Emails Criticising Assam Govt, CM

  • WB: Education Minister Interrogated by CBI in SSC Scam

    WB: Education Minister Interrogated by CBI in SSC Scam

  • Paresh Chandra Adhikari

    WB: High Court Dismisses Daughter of Minister Paresh Adhikari From Teachership

  • Is the GST Council a star chamber?

    Is the GST Council a Star Chamber?

  • Load More
Newsletter
About us
Grievance Redressal Mechanism