Jaipur: In Rajasthan, not a single person, who worked as a manual scavenger, has been identified under the Centre's Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers for capital subsidy ...

Activists have refuted an Indian government claim that no deaths have occurred in the country due to manual scavenging in the last five years. “More than 40 manual scavengers have died in the past six ...

Mumbai: The city may be building coastal roads, metros, shiny skyscrapers and sprawling malls. However, all this will not mean much if the city also has labourers, who are cleaning choked-to-the-brim ...

Kailashben's husband Dalsukh Chhavaria died while manually cleaning a sewer in Ahmedabad in 2018. His death resulted in an out-of-court-settlement with the contractor. | Ayush Prasad India prohibited ...

Coming to the rescue of a manual scavenger's wife who was forced to approach court over her residential site, the Karnataka HC on Thursday ordered authorities to pay Rs 50,000 each towards cost and ...

The civic body elections in Bihar's Gaya have scripted history by electing a woman who has worked as a manual scavenger for the last 40 years to high public office. Chinta Devi has been elected Deputy ...

Ranjit aged 25, lives with his parents, his wife and a one year old daughter in one small room in Okhla — a densely populated part of Delhi. He is one of the many in the Valmiki community who is ...

On Thursday Yashodhra Salve, an activist, filmed the labourers deployed to do manual scavenging for a big nullah between Govandi and Chembur. “The labourers are appointed through contractors. I spoke ...