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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sanitation workers death in Kanpur working under Namami Gange project.
    Abdul Alim Jafri
    Namami Gange: Two Sanitation Workers Suffocate to Death in Kanpur
    21 Jun 2019
    The daily wage sanitation workers had been employed by a contractor to clean a sewage chamber on the request of Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) under the Namami Gange project.
  • Plight of Sanitation Workers in Modi’s
    Arijit Sengupta
    Plight of Sanitation Workers in Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat’
    06 Apr 2019
    Despite the Modi government’s talk of a great deal of schemes and programs for the upliftment of manual scavengers, in this year’s interim budget, the Central government has cut the funds for…
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    Elections 2019: For First Time, Manual Scavengers Release Manifesto
    04 Apr 2019
    Safai Karmachari Andolan wants political parties to ensure Right to Life card to ensure direct and free access to education, health care, dignified employment and livelihoods.
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