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Manual scavengers under PCMC unsafe Manual scavengers under PCMC unsafe ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: May 25, 2021, 18:54 IST Two Pimpri-Chinchwad wards pulled up for negligence Two wards of the PCMC) have allegedly forced its sanitation staff to clean nullahs without necessary safety precautions in clear violation of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013. The negligence came to light after civic activists took photographic evidence of the work in progress over the last three days and submitted a complaint to municipal commissioner Rajesh Patil and district collector Rajesh Deshmukh. The pictures show the staff cleaning nullahs manually, without gloves, boots and masks. Contractors are supervising manual work by sanitary staff to allegedly save money, despite having machines. ....
Delhi is trying to end manual scavenging by using sewer cleaning machines. Are its efforts working? Two years after the project launch, little appears to have changed for the capital’s sanitation workers. The Delhi government s new machine at work in Srinivaspuri. | Salik Ahmed/ Article-14 It is an hour before dusk, and a blue vehicle of a small truck’s size is backing into a congested lane in a southern neighbourhood in India’s teeming capital city. Dust-caked cars and motorcycles line the road in Srinivaspuri, under a menacing mesh of electricity wires. Two sanitation workers guide the driver as he reverses the vehicle, inch-by-inch, dodging a low-hanging wire here, a vehicle’s rear view mirror there and steers slowly to the end of the narrow lane. When he parks, the workers remove long iron hooks from the vehicle and use them to lift the lid of a blocked manhole, revealing a bubbling, filthy drain. ....
Manual Scavenging - Not Just Inhuman But a Crime Deaths and suicides. A few days ago, a manual scavenger in Mysuru committed suicide because he was being harassed by his bosses for five months and was not even paid his salary. He left behind a suicide note stating that he was forced to enter a manhole to clean it without safety gear or even a pair of gloves. He felt severely humiliated because these bosses made him put his thumb impression on a paper which stated that he had stepped into the manhole without protective gear of his own volition. ....
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Unauthorised and hazardous cleaning of septic tanks has been a practice. Representational Image | Photo Credit: Times Now New Delhi: Unauthorised and hazardous cleaning of septic tanks has been a practice that has failed to stop completely despite several laws, promises and tall claims of advancements and development in this regard. And this rampant practice of humans being used for cleaning sewers has been claiming hundreds of lives every year, lives that are just numbers after their deaths. At a time when deaths of manual scavengers are reduced to mere numbers and data in government’s records, there’s a need to look into this issue with compassion and more diligence. ....