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Across Waves of COVID-19 in India, Sanitation Workers Remain Most Ignored
The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis chairperson has said that coupled with absence of Central data, state governments too have not even bothered to reply to the panel s notices for data.
Representative image of a sanitation worker disinfecting streets in New Delhi. Photo: Reuters
Rights14 hours ago
New Delhi: Even with a recent data study showing that over half of the COVID-19 deaths among employees of the three municipal corporations of Delhi were among safai karamcharis, there is still no nationwide record of similar data. Nor is there uniform insurance or compensation schemes for sanitation workers who have been at the frontline of the fight against the pandemic.
West Bengal: Selectively Hiring Doms To Cremate COVID Victims Reflects Casteist Mentality
The government is replicating caste-based division of labour, against which the Dalit community has been struggling and sacrificing their lives for centuries.
Representative image of last rites of a COVID-19 victim. Photo: PTI
Rights9 hours ago
The Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of West Bengal has been issuing a series of orders regarding the selective hiring of ‘Dom’ caste for disposing COVID-19 positive dead bodies. The nature of these orders is
prima facie casteist, and by resembling the caste (
jati) system, diminishes the values of the Indian constitution.