Topic: DASAM
Deprived of rights: Sewer workers in national capital
The sewer workers in the national capital New Delhi who work in the contractual system have been deprived of individual and labor rights, alleges Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikar Manch (DASAM), a platform of the Dalits, Adivasis, and their organisations.
“It is a killing,” alleges fact-finding report of two Murshidabad sewer workers death in Patna
On 31 May, two laborers Mohamad Idrish and Mohamad Iqbal, both natives of Murshidabad district in West Bengal, lost their lives while cleaning sewerage in Beur locality of Bihar's capital, Patna. A jointly constituted fact-finding team by DASAM and LJP tried to reach the bottom of the matter.
Dalit Adivasi group says Parliament to take up manual scavengers bill without consultation
The Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikar Manch (DASAM), a Dalit Adivasi rights network, has demanded that "the due process" for the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020, scheduled for in the current session of Parliament, should be followed before passing it.
