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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. It is also illegal to not demolish or convert insanitary latrines within a certain period of The Prohibition Of Employment As Manual Scavengers And Their Rehabilitation Act of 2013 coming into force.

Who is a Manual Scavenger

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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
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Is Building an Insanitary Latrine Unlawful?

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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
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Who is Responsible for Demolishing or Converting an Insanitary Latrine

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The person who occupies the property on which an 'insanitary latrine' exists has to demolish or convert it. If more than one person owns the property on which the insanitary latrine is built, the cost
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Is it Legal to Employ a Manual Scavenger?

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No, it is illegal to employ someone as a manual scavenger in India. It is also unlawful for anyone (including municipalities and panchayats) to employ any person for the cleaning of a sewer or a septi
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How can Manual Scavengers be Rehabilitated?

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Both in urban and rural areas, if the officers of the Municipality or the Panchayat believe that manual scavenging may be taking place in their area of control, they have to do a survey and create a l
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How to File a Complaint for Safai Karamcharis

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If you notice or are made aware of instances where laws for safai karamcharis are not followed, you can file a complaint to the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK). You can visit their we
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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?

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Malavika Rajkumar answered 2 years ago • Manual Scavenging

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What happens to manual scavengers who have signed an agreement of employment?

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Malavika Rajkumar answered 2 years ago • Manual Scavenging

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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?

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Malavika Rajkumar answered 2 years ago • Manual Scavenging

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Are the toilets in trains insanitary latrines, under the law on manual scavenging?

Adrija Jayanthy answered 2 years ago • Manual Scavenging

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