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50 People Died Cleaning Sewers in the First Six Months of 2019

-TheWire.in

This number only accounts for deaths in eight states.

New Delhi:
Data collated by the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) reveals that at least 50 persons have died cleaning sewers in the first six months of 2019 alone.

According to a report in the Indian Express, the figure in question, by the NCSK’s own admission, is an underestimation as it only accounts for the number of deaths caused by cleaning sewers in only eight states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu out of 36 states and Union territories.

In addition, many of the eight states that were included in the data had underreported numbers, making the de-facto tally of the number of deaths even higher.

As the Indian Express report points out, several times the deaths of sewer workers are not confirmed by the state and as a consequence are not recorded by the NCSK.

The NCSK, which is a statutory body set up by an Act of parliament, has been collating the number of deaths caused by manual scavenging estimates around 817 deaths since 1993 when the practice was outlawed in the country.

In March 2017, the Supreme Court directed the government to identify the people who died cleaning sewers from 1993 onwards and offer Rs 10 lakh as compensation to each of their families.

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