NHRC Recommends Special Act Against Manual Scavenging

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has made a series of recommendations to the Centre to eradicate manual scavenging.

Key Recommendations

  • Broaden the definition of manual scavenging to cover other types of hazardous cleaning and enact a new law for it.
  • Take strict action against local authorities who employ people as manual scavengers.
  • The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) should monitor the sewer deaths in its reports.
  • Accountability must be fixed in case of wrong reporting by the concerned authorities about the number of manual scavengers in any region of the country as it highlighted that the tall claims made by states that ....
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