manual scavengers
- India
40-year-old Dalit manual scavenger falls into manhole in Tamil Nadu; dies
A 40-year-old Dalit manual scavenger died on Sunday, June 8, after he accidentally slipped into a manhole while trying to clean a sewage in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district. The incident occurred behind…
- India
Tamil Nadu: 3 Dalit manual scavengers die cleaning septic tank without safety gear
Three manual scavenger workers from the Dalit community died after inhaling poisonous gas while trying to clean a seven-foot-long septic tank in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur district. Hari Krishnan (27), Saravanan (30), Venugopal…
- Hyderabad
No manual scavengers in Telangana: Union min tells Lok Sabha
Hyderabad: Union Social Justice and Empowerment minister Ramdas Athawale said that there are no manual scavengers in Telangana, and stated that the data was derived at through surveys conducted in 2013 and…
- India
377 people died while cleaning sewers in 5 years, claims minister
New Delhi: A total of 377 people have died from 2019 to 2023 while hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks but there is no report of practice of manual scavenging in…
- Top Stories
3 sanitation workers die while cleaning manhole in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: In a tragic incident, three sanitation workers died due to asphyxiation while cleaning a manhole at Kulsumpura on Friday evening. The deceased persons are M Srinivas, 40, V. Hanmanth, 42, and…
- India
Robots to replace human scavengers in UP’s Prayagraj
Lucknow: There is some good news for human scavengers. In a first for the region, smart robots will soon begin cleaning clogged sewers and the project will begin from Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj.…
