Promised a job and compensation, the family is now running pillar to post for availing both.
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Govt Needs to Tell What It Has Done on The Menace of People Dying Cleaning Sewers: NHRC Chief
“Merely putting laws in place will not to suffice; the ground realities need to change.”
NHRC Notice to Delhi Govt, Police Commissioner Over Death of Labourers While Cleaning Septic tank
Due to negligence by authorities, a large number of people are dying every year in such painful incidents, the National Human Rights Commission said.
Maharashtra: Three People Die While Cleaning Septic Tank in Palghar District
“Eight persons have been booked on the charge of negligence,” spokesperson of Palghar police Hemant Katkar said.
Former TMC Councillor Allegedly Beats Up Sanitation Worker in Howrah
The victim reportedly lodged a complaint after spending two days at the hospital.
Separate Ministry, Apology From PM: Safai Karamchari Andolan Releases First Manifesto
The SKA also called for increasing the compensation in case of sewer deaths to Rs 1 crore.
Ground Report: What Does a Day in the Life of a Sanitation Worker in Delhi Really Look Like?
“Some years ago, I went down a sewerage pipeline. I felt I was suffocating. I would have died if I had been down there for another 10-15 minutes.”
Low Wages, No Safety Equipment, Institutional Apathy: How Manual Scavenging is Still Practised in Kolkata
Contractors employ sanitation workers on a daily basis. For four hours of work some contractors pay Rs 230, others pay Rs 180.
Rafale Files, Jobs, Even a Judge: Social Media Users Trend #GayabHoGaya to List Everything that Vanished Under Modi Govt
Congress president Rahul Gandhi suggested that the phrase should be the Modi govt’s new slogan.
Our Missiles Can Go To Shanghai, But We Don’t Have Capacity to Clean 5 ft Down a Sewer: Bezwada Wilson at India Today Conclave
Under Swachh Bharat, Rs 2 Lakh Crore have been allocated to build toilets, but not a rupee to rehabilitate manual scavengers, he said
Nothing Has Change For The Five Sanitation Workers Whose Feet Modi Washed at The Kumbh
“There should be change in the country, that is not happening. The poor and backward are suffering,” Naresh Kumar told the Indian Express.