![]() | Delhi High Court laments death of two people in sewerA sweeper and a security guard died on September 9 in Outer Delhi's Mundka area after they inhaled toxic gases inside a sewer. |
![]() | Rehab of manual scavengers: 44 safety gear made mandatoryThe State government has notified the rules for employment and rehabilitation of manual scavengers. |
![]() | Humiliation in school due to untouchability scars lives of childrenUntouchability is scarring the lives of thousands of children in Uttar Pradesh. |
![]() | Trapped in manual scavengingAs the govt survey on manual scavengers gets delayed, Ritwika Mitra visits some villages in UP to find that poverty, lack of options and systemic apathy make scores of people pick human excreta. |
![]() | Bangalore’s manhole horror: They were paid Rs 500 to clean our sh**tYarayya was one of the manual scavengers who was hurriedly roped in to clean a manhole on the Kaggadaspura main road past midnight on Monday. |
![]() | Surely, we can’t stand with them when they clean manholes?BWSSB had issued a notice to the company, warning it that its bills would not be cleared if the work is not proper. |
![]() | Bengaluru manhole horror: To clear pending bill, workers were rushed to their deathThe supervisor who also died in the incident, was allegedly pressurised to fix the manhole in CV Raman Nagar by Ramky contractors. |
![]() | Good question: If manual scavenging was illegal, how was he doing it for eight yearsManhole cleaners don’t only work in hell-like conditions, they live in similar conditions. |
![]() | Anyone cares a s**t for the law? Three sanitation workers die in Bengaluru sewerThe Baiyappanahalli police have filed a case and held the contractor responsible for not giving any safety kits to the workers. |
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