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Safai mitra Suraksha Challenge
November 27 , 2020
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- It was launched by the Ministry of Urban Affairs for ensuring that no person needs to enter septic or sewer tanks.
- The challenge aims to ensure that no life of septic tank or sewer cleaner is lost during cleaning.
- The Ministry of Social Justice will be amending the law Prohibition of Employment of Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act for making machine cleaning mandatory.
- It is also proposed to replace the word manhole with machine hole in an official usage.
- State governments took a pledge of mechanising all septic and sewer tanks cleaning operations by April 31, 2021.
- In 1993, the employment of manual scavengers was prohibited in India.
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