Why Budget 2020 may not live up to its promise of eliminating manual scavenging from India

Chaitanya Mallapur, FactChecker.in

· Feb 24, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Indian government has built 95 million toilets, but little has changed for manual scavengers

Sadhika Tiwari, IndiaSpend

· Dec 14, 2019 · 01:30 pm

As three Dalits lay dying from toxic fumes in an Agra sewer, no one would even give them water

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma

· Sep 27, 2019 · 06:30 am

‘In no country people are sent to gas chambers to die’: SC asks Centre about sewer workers’ deaths

Scroll Staff

· Sep 18, 2019 · 02:57 pm

A woman in MP recounts the trauma of watching her husband die in a tank full of faeces

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma

· Sep 13, 2019 · 06:30 am

Ghaziabad: Five workers die of suffocation inside manhole at drainage project site

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· Aug 23, 2019 · 09:57 am

A decade after her husband died cleaning a septic tank, a woman in MP struggles to keep going

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma

· Aug 23, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘No one came to help’: How a father and teenaged son in Madhya Pradesh died cleaning a septic tank

Harsh Mander Sonal Sharma Vidit Verma

· Jul 26, 2019 · 09:00 am

Sewer deaths: Centre asks states and Union Territories to set up emergency response units

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· Jul 17, 2019 · 01:24 pm

Gujarat sewer deaths: Hotel owner and manager arrested by Vadodara Police

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· Jun 19, 2019 · 07:38 pm

Gujarat: Seven workers die after inhaling toxic gas while cleaning septic tank in Dabhoi taluka

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· Jun 15, 2019 · 11:44 am

Four workers die while cleaning septic tank in Tamil Nadu, two in Gurugram

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· Apr 15, 2019 · 02:30 pm

Delhi: Two dead after inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning restaurant’s sewage treatment plant

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· Mar 24, 2019 · 08:21 pm

Mumbai: BMC worker killed, four injured after allegedly inhaling poisonous fumes inside manhole

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· Mar 18, 2019 · 10:54 am

Delhi sewer-cleaning machine project reinforces link between Dalits and sanitation work, say critics

Vijayta Lalwani

· Mar 04, 2019 · 12:30 pm

The Daily Fix: By washing the feet of sanitation workers, Narendra Modi merely mocks their plight

Shoaib Daniyal

· Feb 26, 2019 · 09:30 am

Where does your shit travel and who cleans it?

Anirudh A Ashar Aarefa Johari

· Feb 25, 2019 · 12:26 pm

Why technology alone won’t solve India’s manual scavenging problem

Assa Doron Robin Jeffrey

· Jan 02, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Delhi: Labourer dies while cleaning Jal Board sewer in Jahangirpuri

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· Oct 22, 2018 · 11:48 am

Readers’ comments: Back-to-back progressive Supreme Court judgements hold out hope for India

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· Sep 30, 2018 · 10:30 pm