 | Amitabh Bachchan pledges to join 'any campaign' that works for welfare of manual scavengersThe 78-year-old legend who is one of the most active celebrities on Twitter took to the platform to share his thoughts on the act of manual scavenging. |
 | 288 people died cleaning sewers, septic tanks in last three years: Centre tells Rajya SabhaThe Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment told the Rajya Sabha in response to an unstarred question on the number of people who died due to asphyxiation in the last three years. |
 | Worker in Vijayawada found cleaning drain without safety gearWhen contacted, VMC chief engineer D Mariyanna said the engineering department has given the task of clearing the silt in open drains to various contractors in the city. |
 | Manual scavenging: A caste-based discrimination that persists in PakistanOfficially, Pakistan denies the existence of caste-based practices in the country. But the discrimination and abuse of minorities in the state continues to persist. |
 | Two die while cleaning septic tank in ChennaiDespite manual scavenging being banned, continuous deaths are a testament that the practice continues unabated, even in the developed industrial corridors. |
 | Manual scavenging: Corporation chief suspends 2 engineersOfficials were flummoxed when Corporation Commissioner S Sivasubramaniam on Tuesday issued an order placing under immediate suspension two engineers for dereliction of duty. |
 | 24-year-old dies while cleaning sewer in Delhi’s KarkardoomaA senior police officer said that following a PCR call at 1 pm about the two men stuck inside a sewer, a team was rushed to the spot immediately. |
 | 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. |
