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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that every year before the onset of monsoon, the Mumbai municipal authorities engage ‘seasonal sanitation workers’ to clean about 2200 km long storm water cum sewage drain network with their bare hands amounting to ‘manual scavenging’. …

There is no report of practice of manual scavenging in any district, stated UNION MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT, SHRI RAMDAS ATHAWALE, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today. Parliament enacted ‘The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 …