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According to the guidelines of the Rajasthan government, sewerage workers are not allowed to participate the enclosure of sewage lines. Even the Supreme Court has banned the signifier of manual scavenging. (Express Photo)
Three sanitation workers allegedly died of asphyxiation portion cleaning a blocked sewage enactment astatine Fatehpur successful Sikar territory connected Tuesday.
According to the police, the incidental happened astatine 5 p.m. Tuesday nether Fatehpur Kotwali constabulary presumption limits.
Fatehpur Kotwali constabulary presumption SHO Subhash Bijarniya said, “The declaration institution has sent a squad of 8 workers to unblock the sewage line. One idiosyncratic got into the enclosure of the sewage line. As helium did not respond, 2 different workers besides got into the enclosure and they died of suffocation. Then authorities were informed.”
Three workers were taken retired with the assistance of a crane. The workers were taken to Dhanuka infirmary wherever each 3 – Mahendra (38), Sajjan (30) and Mukesh (35) – were declared dead. The workers were residents of Valmiki Basti successful Ward 48.
Family members and relatives of the victims staged a sit-in protestation demanding compensation of 1 crore rupees and a authorities occupation to the kin of the victims. MLA Hakeem Ali reached the spot and joined the protests. Officials person agreed to springiness compensation arsenic per the authorities guidelines.
On Wednesday, the territory medication announced that the L&T Company, which has hired the workers, volition springiness Rs 30 lakh to each of the families of the 3 deceased, Rs 1 lakh each for cremation and fractional the wage arsenic pension to the nominee of the deceased.
Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission took suo motu cognisance of the matter. Justice G R Moolchandani, Chairman of the commission, directed the Secretary to Government, Social Justice and Empowerment Department, Government of Rajasthan, and the District Magistrate, Sikar, to analyse the substance and nonstop reports to the commission.
Earlier, SDM of Fatehpur Damyanti Rathore claimed that workers did not participate the chamber. “They did not participate the chamber, but fainted owed to the beingness of poisonous gas. This was an unfortunate incidental and the section is conducting a probe into the matter. Compensation volition beryllium fixed to the families arsenic per the authorities guidelines,” Rathore said.
Asked if the sanitation workers volition beryllium provided with indispensable equipment, the SDM said that the authorities is readying to springiness bodysuits and state masks to the workers soon.
According to the guidelines of the Rajasthan government, sewerage workers are not allowed to participate the enclosure of sewage lines. Even the Supreme Court has banned the signifier of manual scavenging.
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