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In India, it is illegal to employ people as manual scavengers to clean insanitary latrines as well as to clean sewers and septic tanks without protective gear or construct insanitary latrines.
Manual Scavenging
This explainer discusses the illegal practice of manual scavenging in India to clean insanitary latrines as well as to clean sewers and septic tanks without protective gear or construct insanitary latrines. It primarily deals with the law laid out in the Prohibition Of Employment As Manual Scavengers And their Rehabilitation Act of 2013.
FAQs
Are the toilets in trains insanitary latrines, under the law on manual scavenging?
Can the government exercise any investigative powers under this law to find out who employs and maintains insanitary latrines, under the law on manual scavenging?
What happens to manual scavengers who have signed an agreement of employment?
If someone has been excluded from the survey process by a Muncipality, do they still have the chance to be identified as a manual scavenger?