The Employment of Manual Scavengers & Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993
As per entry 6 in the State List of the Constitution, “Sanitation” is a State subject. However, taking into consideration the seriousness of the problem and the resolutions passed by the legislatures of six States (AP, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, West Bengal & Tripura), the Parliament had enacted the above legislation under Article 252 (“Power of Parliament to legislate for two or more States by consent and adoption of such legislation by any other State”) of the Constitution.
The Act came into force on January 26, 1997 in ....
