Manual Scavenging

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The Supreme Court recently directed the centre and all state governments to ensure complete eradication of the practice of manual scavenging while dealing with deaths occurring in sewers. The Court held that it was the centuries-old stigmatising social practices that led to the deprivation of scavengers to such levels that they were not even recognised as human beings. Regrettably, manual scavenging still persists despite many legislations

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The court underscored that Article 17 was written into the Indian Constitution with the hope that the practice of untouchability in general and manual scavenging, in particular, would not continue in a free and independent India.

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday sought a reply from the Uttar Pradesh Government and the Municipal Corporation of Prayagraj on a PIL filed for the safety and rehabilitation of sanitary workers who do manual work in sewers.

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Above: A protest in Delhi...