Tag: Manual Scavengers

Eradicating Stigma: A Landmark Judgment on Manual Scavenging and Justice for Dalits

A judgment upholding dignity: Attempting, again, to end manual scavenging, and restoring justice for the most marginalised

Manual Scavenging continues unabated, Indian Govts turns a deaf ear to acknowledge this systemic, extreme violence

Even as Supreme Court directs governments to meet to discuss implementation of a central law, abolition of manual scavenging, a callous system has a lukewarm response

Zero reported deaths due to manual scavenging: Ramdas Athawale

Is the government denying responsibility by referring to such death as deaths brought on by dangerous cleaning of septic tanks and sewers?

3 More UP Manual Scavengers Dead After Inhaling Toxic Fumes

Three young labourers employed at a house construction site in Kanpur died after inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning an unused septic tank without any protective gear.

Protection of Manual Scavengers under the law: The real picture

Mismanagement in providing compensation and low conviction rates render the law less effective

K’taka HC directs state gov’t to come up with scholarship for children of manual scavengers

The court has given the government 30 days to come up with a uniform scheme for the same

Widows of three manual scavengers get compensation and rehabilitation from Bombay HC

In a year where the government refused to accept any deaths due to manual scavenging, the court stepped in to recognise their rights

Shocks the judicial conscience: Odisha HC on death of four manual scavengers

The High Court has directed Rs. 10 lakh compensation to manual scavengers’ family who died due to asphyxiation

SC adjourns plea filed in 2019 seeking criminal action for employing manual scavengers

The plea seeks invoking of charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against employers of manual scavengers, who end up dying on the job

Kerala HC directs Water Authority to compensate families of manual scavengers who died cleaning manhole

The court directed the state to pay compensation of Rs. 10 lakh in addition to the compensation paid by the contractor

Death of manual scavengers: Karnataka HC takes note of the grim situation

The High Court has said that it is ‘crystal clear’ that the manual scavenging act has not been implemented properly in the state

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