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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | NAC to monitor abolition of manual scavenging by Siddharth Varadarajan

NAC to monitor abolition of manual scavenging by Siddharth Varadarajan

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published Published on Oct 25, 2010   modified Modified on Oct 25, 2010

The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) on Saturday urged the Centre to coordinate with all State and local governments and also Central government departments, including the Railways, to ensure that the pernicious practice of manual scavenging is fully abolished the latest by the end of the 11th Plan period.

This, it said, would require a new survey in every State and Union Territory, with wide public involvement, of the remaining dry latrines and manual scavengers, demolition of all dry latrines, psycho-social and livelihood rehabilitation in modern marketable skills of all manual scavengers and their families, and special programmes for education including higher education and computer education of all children of manual scavengers.

The NAC has asked the Ministry of Social Justice to formulate 100 per cent Centrally-sponsored schemes to support the rehabilitation initiatives.

The law also needs to be amended, the NAC said, to ensure sharper definitions of manual scavenging, and greater accountability on the part of officials who employ, or fail to prevent, manual scavenging.

The NAC has recommended that the implementation of this law be monitored at the highest levels of the Central and State governments.

It will itself monitor, on a quarterly basis, progress in abolition of manual scavenging, in order to ensure the final end of this most degrading practice of caste discrimination.


The Hindu, 26 October, 2010, http://www.hindu.com/2010/10/26/stories/2010102663651300.htm


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