Manual Scavenger Archives

Bombay HC directs Department of Social Welfare to create email address, social media handle for reporting instances of manual scavenging

The creation of the social media handle and email address and uploading of the information on the website shall be done by the next date of hearing, i.e., 09-09-2024.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court enhances compensation to Rs. 30,00,000/- for families of deceased sanitation workers

“It would be a travesty if the entitlement of the family members of the deceased scavenging workers is confined to Rs.10,00,000. The same would defeat the directions of the Supreme Court to enhance the compensation to Rs. 30,00,000/- on the basis that the previously fixed compensation of Rs.10,00,000/- was fixed far back in 1993 and was not an adequate compensation.”

Op Eds OP. ED.

Manual Scavenging and Partial Implementation

by Areeb Uddin Ahmed†