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Govt. Plans to Introduce the Manual Scavenging Amendment Bill Banning Manual and Forced Cleaning of Sewers

Lawstreet Journal 8 Sep 2020 4:29pm

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Recently, a senior official has said that the Social Justice & Empowerment Ministry is set to introduce the Manual Scavenging Amendment Bill which would make manual scavenging i.e. manually cleaning sewers of forced manual scavenging a criminal offense punishable with 7 years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10 lakh. 

The Government is set to ban manual cleaning of sewers in the forthcoming session of Parliament, the official said. The Bill is one of the measures in a Rs 1.25 lakh crore national action plan to employ technological solutions for cleaning sewer & septic tanks and completely eliminate manual scavenging in both urban as well as rural areas. As per the reports, the action plan will include four major components, which are, excavation of waste or decongestion of sewer, transportation of waste matter, treatment at sewage treatment plants, & then re-use.

The practice of direct handling excreta by sanitization workers has been banned under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers & their Rehabilitation Act, 2013. According to the Act, ‘hazardous cleaning’ is defined as manual cleaning by an employee without the employer fulfilling the mandatory obligation of providing protective gear other cleaning devices to ensure every safety precaution. However, the fact that the Act does not completely ban manually cleaning sewers and septic tanks has caused many deaths of the sewage workers. As per a news report, a Group of Ministers (GoM) was formed earlier, under defense Minister Shri Rajnath Singh, to examine this issue of manual cleaning of sewers.

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