EXPRESSING concern over the abject conditions of conservancy workers employed in manual scavenging and the resultant deaths in slush, the Madras High Court issued a set of 19 guidelines to the government to effectively deal with the issue. The court also asked the government to eradicate the practice by at least 2026.
The first bench of Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Justice J Sathya Narayana Prasad issued the guidelines in an order passed on Monday while hearing a batch of petitions in this connection.
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