-Live Mint ‘Give me any job... but please take me out of this hell', says 57-year-old Saraswati, a manual scavenger New Delhi: Saraswati doesn't remember the last time her bare hands touched the statues of the gods lying on a shaky wooden plank in a corner of her one-room house in Farrukhnagar village of Ghaziabad district. She doesn't remember the last time she prayed or fasted. She says every part of her body...

-The Indian Express Manual scavenging laws will need to be supported by better sanitation policies. The recent passage of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill by Parliament is a welcome, long-overdue step in the right direction. The bill replaces the outdated and rarely implemented 1993 law, which purported to abolish manual scavenging. It has been passed primarily due to a sustained campaign by thousands of former women...

-The Hindu Central law has provisions that only justifies the age-old practice Chennai: There is a law, a court order and a committee. The Centre passed the Prohibition of Employment as Manual scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012 on Saturday. However, the death of 30 workers in 30 months since February 2012 in Tamil Nadu seems to suggest that nothing is able to prevent the abominable practice. Most of those who died were workers...

-PTI   A Bill seeking to prohibit employment of individuals as manual scavengers and providing for rehabilitation of those involved in this work and their families through jobs and other provisions was passed by the Lok Sabha today. Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Kumari Selja moved the Prohibition of Employment as Manual scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012 in the Lok Sabha. It was passed after a short discussion. The minister said the...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Lok Sabha today passed the protection and rehabilitation of scavengers bill, which had been on the backburner for years. The Prohibition of Employment as Manual scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012, is aimed at amending and replacing the existing Employment of Manual scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993, which activists say remains just on paper. Bezwada Wilson, founder and national convener of the Safai Karmachari...