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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.
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.
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.
Newsclick Report
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.
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.
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.
Newsclick Report
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.
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.
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…
Newsclick Report
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.