Supreme Court Ban on Manual Scavenging in Six Metropolitan Cities Including Delhi

Supreme Court Ban on Manual Scavenging in Six Metropolitan Cities Including Delhi

Supreme Court: On Wednesday (January 29, 2025), the Supreme Court banned manual scavenging and manual sewer cleaning in six metros including the capital Delhi. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Arvind Kumar has said in the judgment that we are banning manual sewer cleaning and manual scavenging in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad metropolis. According to the report of Live Law, the court said that the affidavit filed by the central government has not given any clarity to eliminate manual scavenging and manual sewer cleaning. It also…

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manual scavenging how many people still doing this work know which state has most numbers

manual scavenging how many people still doing this work know which state has most numbers

Manual Scavenging: The work of cleaning sewers and septic tanks with hands is called manual scavenging. Many manual scavengers have lost their lives while cleaning dangerous sewers and shifting ditches. Talking on the basis of statistics, from the year 1983 to the year 2023, 941 people have lost their lives while doing manual scavenging work. Let us tell you that these are official figures. There is no information about those people whose deaths are unregistered. In the year 2013, Delhi was the first state of India. Which had banned manual…

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Jairam Ramesh alleged on PM Modi 25 deaths occurred in Banaras Lok Sabha constituency due to manual scavenging in last 10 years

Jairam Ramesh alleged on PM Modi 25 deaths occurred in Banaras Lok Sabha constituency due to manual scavenging in last 10 years

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Congress on Sunday (7 March) Narendra Modi The government has been accused of doing β€˜injustice’ to the sanitation workers. She said that if she comes to power, she will end the practice of manual scavenging and provide employment to the people engaged in it after training them for some other work. Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh shared on β€˜X’ a media news regarding the death of a sanitation worker due to gas leakage after entering the sewer without equipment. Ramesh wrote that on April 5, 2024,…

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