Manual Scavengers
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Gujarat HC rebukes state govt over unpaid compensation to families of deceased manual scavengers
Gujarat | Jan 03, 2024, 06:32 PM ISTThe families of 26 manhole workers were yet to receive compensation, as noted in the plea filed in April 2023. Despite the 2013 Act's prohibition, local authorities continued to engage people for hazardous cleaning, leading to multiple deaths.
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Plea in HC to make Centre party to petition for compliance of law on manual scavenging
India | Jul 31, 2021, 01:31 PM ISTA plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking to implead the Centre as a party to a petition for ensuring strict compliance of the 2013 law on manual scavengers
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SC raps governments for lack of safety gear for manual scavengers
India | Sep 18, 2019, 04:31 PM ISTThe court's remarks came while hearing the Centre's plea seeking the recall of a 2018 judgment which virtually diluted the stringent provisions of immediate arrest and no anticipatory bail for the accused.
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Shame for nation that Railways employ manual scavengers: Kanimozhi
India | Jul 11, 2019, 04:02 PM ISTDMK member Kanimozhi on Thursday claimed in Lok Sabha that Railways still employ manual scavengers, and said "it is a shame for the nation."
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Manual scavengers to be given loans to buy sewer cleaning machines: Delhi govt
India | Jun 21, 2018, 05:25 PM ISTDelhi government's SC/ST Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam took the decision today while reviewing a proposal to rehabilitate 200 manual scavengers by procuring specially designed sewer machines
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NCSK asks states for fresh count of manual scavengers
India | Nov 23, 2014, 12:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: Dissatisfied with the numbers declared by state governments on the count of manual scavengers, the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) has sought an enumeration of their actual population for rehabilitation purposes.The Commission
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Allow kids of manual scavengers into pvt schools, says NAC
India | Dec 01, 2012, 03:47 PM ISTNew Delhi, Dec 1: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council today suggested bringing children of migrant labourers and manual scavengers under the disadvantaged group, paving the way for their enrolment in private schools under