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How regulatory gaps turn sanitation work deadly

Under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, a manual scavenger is defined as a person engaged in manually cleaning human excreta from an insanitary latrine, railway track or other notified spaces before the excreta decomposes

4 Mar 2026 9:19 am