Employing a Manual Scavenger

By Malavika Rajkumar | Discrimination, Manual Scavenging | 0 comment | 2 August, 2019 | 0

Employing a manual scavenger is illegal in India. People who do so face the following repercussions.

Employing someone as a manual scavenger

If you have committed the offence for the first time, then the punishment is jail time up to one year as well as a fine up to Rs.50,000. If the offence has been committed for the second time, then the punishment is jail time up to two years and a fine up to Rs.1,00,000.

Employing a person for hazardous cleaning of a sewer or a septic tank

If you have committed the offence for the first time, then the punishment is jail time up to 2 years and a fine up to Rs. 2,00,000. If the offence has been committed for the second time, then the punishment is jail time is up to 5 years and fine up to Rs. 5,00,000.

Cleaning Sewers by Manual Scavengers

By Malavika Rajkumar | 1 comment

It is unlawful for anyone (including municipalities and panchayats) to employ any person for the cleaning of a sewer or a septic tank without the necessary protective gear. Anyone who employs a person for hazardousRead more
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Demolishing or Converting an Insanitary Latrine

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The person who occupies the property on which an ‘insanitary latrine’ exists is required to demolish or convert it. If there was more than one person who owns the property on which the insanitary latrine Read more
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Building an Insanitary Latrine

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It is unlawful and an offence under the Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 for any person, municipality, panchayat or agency to build an insanitary latrine that requires human waste to be removed manuallyRead more
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Manual Scavenger

By Malavika Rajkumar | 0 comment

Any person who has been employed to handle undecomposed human waste from an insanitary latrine, open drain or pit or railway track is a manual scavenger. The person could have been employed by anyone –Read more
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Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers

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Both in an urban and rural area, if the officers of the Municipality or the Panchayat believe that Manual Scavenging may be taking place in their area of control, in such a case, a surveyRead more
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Employing a Manual Scavenger