By PTI TINSUKIA: Four people died allegedly due to asphyxiation while cleaning a tank used for illicit liquor production in Assam’s Tinsukia district on...
manual scavenging
Manual scavenging is a banned practice under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (PEMSR) Act, 2013. NEW DELHI: As many...
By ANI PUNE: The body of the sanitation worker who went missing this morning while cleaning a septic chamber in Pune was found by...
The Safai Karamchari Andolan has launched a campaign against sewer and septic tank deaths.
The government does not identify deaths due to manual scavenging but calls them deaths due to hazardous cleaning of septic tanks and sewers.
Although no deaths have been reported due to manual scavenging, 309 people died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks in the last five years,...
By PTI NEW DELHI: NHRC chairperson justice (retd) Arun Mishra on Monday said manual scavenging still remains a “stinking truth of our nation” and...
Express News Service NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is in favour of broadening of the definition of manual scavenging to include all...