MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A flagship government programme to modernise India's sanitation has failed to tackle the practice of low caste women clearing faeces by hand, and has even ...

The Supreme Court of India on Friday issued a comprehensive set of fourteen directives aimed at eradicating the practice of manual scavenging across the nation. A pivotal aspect of these directives ...

NCSK seeks a detailed report on the deaths of two sanitation workers in Mumbai's STP tank, highlighting manual scavenging violations and safety lapses.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has come under scrutiny following allegations of manual scavenging on campus, a practice which is strictly prohibited. As per a statement released by the All India ...

India’s top court has ordered total eradication of the inhuman practice of manually removing human excrement from toilets, septic tanks, or sewers by mostly Dalits or former untouchable workers in the ...

Vol. 51, No. 2, Special Issue on: LANDSCAPE OF SANITATION IN INDIA: REFLECTIONS ON SWACHHTA (July – December 2021), pp. 41-56 (16 pages) Manual scavenging in India has a long history. It is an ...

Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) received as many as 355 declarations of manual scavenging from the M East and M West wards—covering areas like Govandi and Chembur—on Tuesday, in ...

To eliminate manual cleaning work, unions have demanded that the process of procuring the BMC’s machinery ought to be ...

The high-tech vehicles are aimed at replacing human involvement in hazardous sewer cleaning, a practice the state is now determined to end.

Aamir Khan has met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the plight of manual scavengers in the country. According to Mid Day, the Satyamev Jayate host, who also spoke with Social Justice and ...