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To begin with, the government would be hiring 200 sewer-cleaning machines each of which would provide job to four persons and thus create 800 jobs.

Manual sewer cleaners struggle to find other jobs

Of those who were provided skill development training, many left the jobs they were given due to non-payment of salaries...

28 Jan 2019 2:13 AM IST

Despite all the measures, manual scavenging is still prevalent across the country. (Photo: Representational)

3 manual scavengers dies in septic tanks filled with faeces of pigs in...

Around 9 am, 38-year-old Rajappan first entered the tank and succumbed to poisonous gas emanating from the septic tank.

28 Jun 2019 4:19 PM IST

Delhi High Court. (Photo: Twitter)

Delhi HC pulls up PWD for using manual scavengers

Three sanitation workers died of asphyxiation while cleaning a drain in Delhi last week.

10 Aug 2017 3:05 AM IST