N. Meenakshisundaram

Manual Scavenging Act and municipal wastewater workers in India, policy and practice - A dissertation

The problem of manual scavenging in municipal waste water disposal precariously prevails since from colonial regime in India

Posted on 31 Jul, 2012 10:20 AM

Indian municipal waste water disposal system generated a "neo scavengers" of municipal waste water workers/ sewer workers in organised occupations.

Solutions on the rehabilitation of manual scavengers were been enacted with the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 .

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