Topic: Manual Scavengers
Criminal silence
Even when the relentless 'Action 2022' campaign against sewer and septic tank deaths across India continues beyond 50 days, it received little attention from the general public.
Open letter: Privacy, dignity and autonomy of Safai Karamcharis
Rights groups and activists while expressing their concerns over human rights violations to the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis, alleged that they have come across multiple news reports related to Safai Karamcharis across the country being made to wear tracking devices in order to enable their surveillance by the authorities In the past two years.
TN: Three die while cleaning sewage tank, kin says “deaths due to govt negligence”
Three workers died of asphyxiation after inhaling poisonous gas while repairing a sewage pumping station in Tamil Nadu's Madurai on Thursday.
Haryana: Four sanitation workers die while cleaning sewage tank
Four sanitation workers died in Haryana’s Hisar district on Tuesday while cleaning a sewage tank.
Sewer workers in Delhi demand recognition for risking their lives
"There is a constant threat to lose work if we raise their voice against the system," say the sewer workers in national capital Delhi.
“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.
