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In effect to a query from The Indian Express, Akshaya Budania, District Development Officer (DDO) of Botad, who is besides the Acting Collector, said, “The Mamlatdar is penning to (Barwala) nagarpalika for an explanation. If verified, we’ll instrumentality strict enactment nether manual scavenging prevention act.”
Officials of Botad territory successful Gujarat connected Wednesday began an probe into a video and photograph of a sanitation idiosyncratic who is purportedly seen manually cleaning a septic vessel without immoderate information equipment. The photograph, geo-tagged to Barwala Nagarpalika successful Botad district, was brought to airy by the Manav Garima NGO, which shared the video connected its societal media page.
In the video, the idiosyncratic tin beryllium seen speaking to different man, who was not successful the frame, that helium needed to bash the occupation fraught with information to beryllium capable to “fill his stomach”. Notably, manual scavenging was outlawed successful India nether the Prohibition of Employment arsenic Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.
Parshottam Vaghela, caput of Manav Garima, said, “Today, erstwhile India is celebrating Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav and Swachh Bharat Divas, adjacent today, our countrymen are manually cleaning a septic tank. To marque matters worse, nary information instrumentality was fixed to the antheral doing this unsafe job. Strict enactment indispensable beryllium taken successful this regard…repeated judgement by Supreme Court and assorted High Courts successful India person underlined this.”
In effect to a query from The Indian Express, Akshaya Budania, District Development Officer (DDO) of Botad, who is besides the Acting Collector, said, “The Mamlatdar is penning to (Barwala) nagarpalika for an explanation. If verified, we’ll instrumentality strict enactment nether manual scavenging prevention act.”
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