As the scorching heat of the first month of summer baked the grubby streets of Cuddalore on March 20, three young men — two below 30 years and one in mid-30s — were called to clear a block in a ...

The incidence of school students being made to clean a septic tank is not just shocking, but alarming too. It happened with students of classes seven to nine at Morarji Desai Residential School in ...

The Central Monitoring Committee of the Union social justice ministry concluded on Wednesday that the issue of manual scavenging has been eliminated. The ministry made the claim in its eighth meeting ...

Sharing that 66,692 people were engaged in manual scavenging before a ban came into effect in December 2013, the ministry of social justice and empowerment in response to a written question in Rajya ...

Reader question: Appleton recently changed its ordinance to allow people to scavenge large, bulky items placed at the curb. Does any other community in the area allow this? Answer: The Appleton Common ...

India has struggled to enforce laws banning the unsafe practice. Under the new measures, sewer and septic tank cleaning will be mechanized, with funds directly transferred to sanitation workers to buy ...

A crime is taking place here that most people may not be aware of or even think about. But it’s drawing the attention and concern of one of the largest waste haulers in the Bay Area, which serves this ...

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