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Manual Scavengers : All

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  • Bhasha Singh March 14
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    'Govt Should Ensure Justice or Push Us Into Sewer'
    14 Mar 2021
    In this special report, senior journalist Bhasha Singh spoke with two women whose husbands had died in 2016 while cleaning sewers in Hyderabad.
  • Manual Scavenging Bill
    Rosamma Thomas
    New Manual Scavenging Bill Stresses on Technology, Ignores Caste
    19 Sep 2020
    Nearly all sanitation work in India is done by workers from dalit castes and yet the new Bill, set to be tabled in Parliament, evades any reference to lives and demands of sanitation workers.
  • 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
    Ronak Chhabra
    Manual Scavengers: Only 2% Got Cash Assistance Under Rehab Scheme
    18 Dec 2019
    “If manual scavenging is to be eliminated then the department has to take implementation of this Scheme very seriously,” a parliamentary standing committee report said.
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    Kashif Kakvi
    Human Excreta in Hand, Activists Protest Against Manual Scavenging in MP’s Shivpuri
    27 Nov 2019
    On the occasion of 70th Constitution Day, the protesting activists demanded equal rights for sanitation workers and an immediate stop on manual scavenging as well as hazardous sewer cleaning.
  • New Plan for Manual Scavengers Misses Crucial Questions, Just an Eyewash: Bejwada Wilson
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    New Plan for Manual Scavengers Misses Crucial Questions, Just an Eyewash: Bejwada Wilson
    21 Aug 2019
    The plan makes a departure from the traditional means for funding sanitation workers or their self help groups to buy the machines for cleaning the sewers and septic tanks.
  • Manual Scavengers Die in UP
    Abdul Alim Jafri
    Three More Manual Scavengers Die in UP
    20 Jul 2019
    This is the second case of sanitation workers’ death in less than a month in Uttar Pradesh.
  • Sanitation Workers
    Newsclick Team
    Sweeping Sanitation Workers’ Issues Under the Rug
    17 Jul 2019
    In this episode of ‘Khoj Khabar’, senior journalist Bhasha Singh talks about the sanitation workers and their hazardous working conditions.
  • CATS Strike
    Newsclick Team
    CATS Workers Strike, Una Atrocity, Chile Strike and More
    04 Jul 2019
    In Newsclick's Daily Round-Up, we bring to you important stories of the day from India and abroad
  • 88 Sanitation Workers Died in 3 years
    Ditsa Bhattacharya
    88 Sanitation Workers Died in 3 years, Says Minister, Activists Allege Gross Underestimation
    04 Jul 2019
    According to data collected by National Commission for Safai Karamcharis, one safai karamchari had died every five days between January, 2017 and September, 2018.
  • Manual scavengers continue to die in Tamil Nadu
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    Three Manual Scavengers Die While Cleaning Septic Tank in Coimbatore
    28 Jun 2019
    It has been alleged that the three were supposed to do some other work, but were asked to step into the tank by the owner of the pig farm where they were working.
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