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Bengal to provide flour, sugar, semolina at half price to 2 cr families for Durga Puja: CM SuvenduThe West Bengal government will provide flour, sugar, and semolina at a 50 percent discount during Durga Puja. The initiative will benefit ...- Former CBI Director M. Nageshwar Rao enters active politics, elected National President of the Sarvajana Sanatan PartyM Nageshwar Rao has unveiled his new role as the National President of the Sarvajana Sanatan Party. He emphasized the need for India to adv...
- BJP slams Vaghela for Rs 50k offer to Brahmins, Vaniyas, Patels to take up manual scavengingShankersinh Vaghela made a controversial statement regarding manual scavenging during a public gathering in Narmada district. He challenged...
- A Nigerian engineer built his first model house with 14,800 sand-filled plastic bottles; the experiment later grew into 15 houses, including a five-bedroom duplexNigerian engineer Yahaya Ahmed is building homes using thousands of discarded plastic bottles. His initiative has constructed up to fifteen...
- No bill proposed for complete abolition of manual scavenging: GovernmentThe Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment stated that no bill exists for complete mechanisation of sewerage cleaning and ending ...
- Delhi Rains: Scavenging is not just a dirty wordThe manual scavenging and sewage cleaning industry in India remains a major concern, with 246 districts yet to declare themselves manual sc...
- One-third of districts still follow manual scavengingClose to the August deadline for declaring India manual scavenging free, nearly a third of the country's 766 districts have yet to overcome...
- Government set to announce India manual scavenging free by August; 246 districts yet to self declareAccording to data shared in the meeting, out of 766 districts, as many as 520 districts have declared themselves manual scavenging free, wh...
- Centre to launch scheme aimed at preventing deaths due to manual scavenging this monthAccording to official data, over 900 workers have died while cleaning sewers or septic tanks since 1993 but activists say the number is muc...
- Action against contractors must to end manual scavenging: PanelStatistics before the panel showed manual scavenging exists in 194 districts of 18 states. Though India banned manual scavenging in 1993, o...
- Over 20,500 manual scavengers identified in India: SurveyThe latest survey has revealed that manual scavenging is prevalent in many states.
- Sewer deaths to invite jail term of up to 10 yearsSeveral manual scavengers have died while cleaning sewer lines in Delhi in the recent years.
- Despite 70 civic workers' death in 10 years, manual scavenging continues unabated in KarnatakaThe inhuman practice has been legally abolished long ago but greedy contractors and an inefficient police and judicial system make sure man...
- Rs 40,000 DBT-linked aid to people leaving manual scavengingHe 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 to conduct own survey on manual scavenging after States provide poor dataCentre has noted that several state governments have failed to implement the provisions of the Prohibition of Employment of Manual Scavenge...
- PM Narendra Modi's dream of manual scavenging-free India still distant as states go slowModi'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...
- National Commission for Safai Karamcharis asks states for fresh count of manual scavengersNCSK Chairman M Shivanna said the move would help in a big way in getting the right number of manual scavengers in every state.
- NHRC issues notice to Tamil Nadu government on manual scavengingThe report, with a photograph, showed a labourer cleaning a manhole without the gear on Santhome High Road on Oct 25 after the city receive...
- Jairam Ramesh urges Parliament to pass bill on manual scavengingA bill prohibiting manual scavenging can be passed in the Budget Session if Parliament exhibits its resolve to eliminate this "despicable" ...
- Manual scavenging: I apologize, PM must do the same, says Jairam RameshJairam Ramesh apologised to the nation on the issue of manual scavenging and added that the PM must too do the same.
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