The manual scavenging and sewage cleaning industry in India remains a major concern, with 246 districts yet to declare themselves manual sc...

Close to the August deadline for declaring India manual scavenging free, nearly a third of the country's 766 districts have yet to overcome...

According to data shared in the meeting, out of 766 districts, as many as 520 districts have declared themselves manual scavenging free, wh...

According to official data, over 900 workers have died while cleaning sewers or septic tanks since 1993 but activists say the number is muc...

Statistics before the panel showed manual scavenging exists in 194 districts of 18 states. Though India banned manual scavenging in 1993, o...

The bill proposes to make the law banning manual scavenging more stringent by increasing the imprisonment term and the fine amount, the off...

The latest survey has revealed that manual scavenging is prevalent in many states.

Several manual scavengers have died while cleaning sewer lines in Delhi in the recent years.

The inhuman practice has been legally abolished long ago but greedy contractors and an inefficient police and judicial system make sure man...

He said all states have been requested to send details of bank accounts of such probable beneficiaries so that the central help can be sent...

Centre has noted that several state governments have failed to implement the provisions of the Prohibition of Employment of Manual Scavenge...

Modi's dream of ensuring a manual scavenging-free India by 2019 has been appreciated but states have a lot to do before it is anywhere clos...

NCSK Chairman M Shivanna said the move would help in a big way in getting the right number of manual scavengers in every state.

The report, with a photograph, showed a labourer cleaning a manhole without the gear on Santhome High Road on Oct 25 after the city receive...

Centre has set aside Rs 700 crore under Indira Awaas Yojana to house over one lakh families of manual scavengers, most of whom are dalits.

A bill prohibiting manual scavenging can be passed in the Budget Session if Parliament exhibits its resolve to eliminate this "despicable" ...

Jairam Ramesh apologised to the nation on the issue of manual scavenging and added that the PM must too do the same.