"manual-scavenging"

Manual scavenging is not merely a vestige of colonial sanitation methods but remains a continuing human rights violation, entrenched in caste hierarchies and social complicity

Manual scavenging persists in India despite the 2013 ban, killing 620-plus workers and highlighting caste inequality, unsafe work, and government apathy 

Saying that not not less than Rs 10 lakh should be paid in cases of partial disablement, the bench stressed that there is a need for complete eradication of manual scavenging.

The harsh reality is that over 95% of India’s 1.3 million manual scavengers are women

Centre's renewed push to end this inhuman form of work needs to focus on why earlier projects were not successful.

"Proactive measure must be taken to ensure no further indignity to our fellow citizens and our collective national conscience," he said.