Tag: Manual Scavanging

India’s struggle to end manual scavenging continues

On January 29, 2025, the Supreme Court of India passed a landmark ruling banning manual scavenging and manual sewer cleaning in six major metropolitan cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad. The Court's decision was prompted by continued state inaction despite multiple previous directives and legislation prohibiting the practice.

Manual scavengers: Abandoned by state, derided by society

Lives of manual sewer cleaners appear to have little value Delhi

Manual Scavenging still on: How Swachh is GOI’s conscience?

On October 2, 2014, the Government of India launched the...

Manual scavenging, social exclusion of past even today play crucial role India’s sanitation outcome

Why have government latrines been rejected by villagers for...

The sceptical Dalit, Left Feminist : my dear friend, Rajni Tilak

  The Rajni TIlak I knew was one who represented...

No Count of Deaths in Sewers and Septic tanks

According to S Anand, a report in 2007, has...

Bezwada Wilson on Eradicating Manual Scavenging

This is a talk organised at Ambedkar University, Delhi...

Though Manual Scavening is a Crime, FIR Registration Takes over a Month: Gujarat

The  moot question remains: when will the government and...

Swachch Bharat Abhiyan Perpetuating Manual Scavenging: Bezwada Wilson

The 1.1 crore toilets built under the Modi government’s...

Manual Scavenging A Crime. Govt Agencies Dodge Law

 The rail ministry said NO to a question in the Lok...

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