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Manual Scavenging Data
December 29 , 2019
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- As per the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, as many as 282 people have died while cleaning sewers and septic tanks in the country between 2016 and November 2019.
- Among the States, Tamil Nadu has recorded 40 deaths, the highest in number, in these four years.
- This is followed by Haryana with 31 deaths, and Gujarat and Delhi with 30 deaths each.
- There has been rapid and unplanned urbanization in the above states.
- There are about 60,440 manual scavengers identified across the country, in 17 States.
- More than half of them about 35,472, have been identified from Uttar Pradesh alone.
- The Parliament had enacted the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 which came in force from December 6, 2013.
- Sanitation is a State subject and the people for cleaning of sewers and septic tanks are employed by local bodies.
- Genrobotics is an Indian robotics company headquartered in Trivandrum, Kerala.
- In 2018, GenRobotics released the Bandicoot robot for cleaning sewers.
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