One of the sanitation workers, Deepu, who survived the tragedy at Mughalsarai, said that if the private hospital had wanted, at least Vinod’s life could have been saved but due to the presence of feces on his body, the doctor shooed him away from a distance. Groundxero | May 15, 2024 The death of sanitation […]
Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA) has objected to the data placed in Parliament by the Union government regarding the number of persons who died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks. SKA said that the figures of death reported by the government are grossly incorrect. A report by Groundxero. On 25 July, 2023, responding to a […]
The claim made by Athawale in Parliament that ‘No deaths have been reported due to manual scavenging’, in last five years, is gross injustice to the ones who’ve lost their lives. Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikar Manch (DASAM) condemns the statement made by the Ministers and calls for the recognition of the lives lost and adequate steps to […]
গত ২৫ ফেব্রুয়ারি কলকাতার কুঁদঘাটে ম্যানহোল পরিস্কার করতে গিয়ে মৃত্যু হয় চারজন ঠিকা শ্রমিকের। ম্যানুয়াল স্ক্যাভেঞ্জিং এদেশে নিষিদ্ধ। কয়েকটি বিশেষ ক্ষেত্র ছাড়া ম্যানহোল ও নিকাশী ব্যবস্থা পরিস্কারের ব্যবস্থাটি যন্ত্রচালিত হওয়ার কথা। কিন্তু কলকাতা পৌর সংস্থা সেই বিধির তোয়াক্কা না করে অনভিজ্ঞ ঠিকা শ্রমিকদের দিয়ে এবং কোনওরকম সুরক্ষা বিধির পরোয়া না করে তাদের ম্যানহোল পরিস্কারের কাজে […]
More than 90 percent of people employed as manual scavengers belong to the scheduled castes. Since 1993 more than a thousand people have lost their lives through this casteist practice of employing SC as manual scavengers for the work of cleaning the septic tanks, directly or contractually in India. In the last ten years, there […]
In his book Karmayog, Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks of manual scavenging as a ‘spiritual experience’. He gives this sermon even while manual scavenging is banned by law in India. At least one person dies every day while cleaning sewers and septic tanks. Besides risk to human health and life the occupation employing thousands of […]