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Manual scavenging is the signifier of removing quality excreta by manus from sewers oregon septic tanks (File Photo)
Keeping successful enactment with the directives issued by the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is acceptable to behaviour a survey connected manual scavenging successful the metropolis and suburbs from Sunday — an workout that volition span crossed 10 days.
An outlawed signifier since 2013, manual scavenging has been banned nether the Prohibition of Employment arsenic Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, (PEMSR). Manual scavenging is the signifier of removing quality excreta by manus from sewers oregon septic tanks. In 2013, the explanation of manual scavengers was broadened to see radical employed to cleanable septic tanks, ditches, oregon railway tracks.
After the guidelines came into force, the BMC conducted a survey successful 2013 during which it recovered that determination were zero manual scavengers successful the city. However, successful airy of a caller writ petition connected manual scavenging, the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has directed the civic assemblage to behaviour a caller survey connected manual scavenging wrong its jurisdiction.
On Friday, the BMC said the survey volition beryllium conducted from October 6 till October 16, with the civic assemblage roping successful an outer bureau done the coagulated discarded absorption department. Meanwhile, the BMC has besides appealed radical to sojourn the Assistant Chief Supervisor (SWM) astatine the divisional bureau during the survey period. To summation the scope of the drive, a civic authoritative said notices informing astir registration nether the survey is slated to beryllium published crossed nationalist places specified arsenic toilets, checkpoints etc.
Even arsenic the civic assemblage maintains the metropolis has nary cases of manual scavenging, the amerciable signifier continues arsenic radical inactive enactment successful unskilled labourers to manually cleanable overflowing sewer oregon septic tanks, ditches, backstage oregon nationalist toilets. Earlier this year, 2 cases of manual scavenging took a fatal turn, claiming astatine slightest 4 lives, wrong a month.
In the first, 3 members of a household mislaid their lives aft entering a vessel of a nationalist toilet astatine Ambujwadi connected March 21. In the 2nd incident, connected April 24, a idiosyncratic who was roped successful to cleanable the sewer enclosure of an under-construction gathering was killed. One among 2 brothers who attempted to prevention the erstwhile besides died inhaling toxic gases wrong the chamber. The different member is inactive battling for his life.
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