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  Gujarat HC rebukes state govt over unpaid compensation to families of deceased manual scavengers

  Gujarat | January 03, 2024 18:32 IST

  The 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 | July 31, 2021 13:31 IST

  A 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 | September 18, 2019 16:31 IST

  The 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 | July 11, 2019 16:02 IST

  DMK 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 | June 21, 2018 17:25 IST

  Delhi 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 | November 23, 2014 12:00 IST

  New 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 | December 01, 2012 15:47 IST

  New 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