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Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act
An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers, rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their families, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
| Act Id | 201325 |
| Act Number | 25 |
| Enactment Date | 2013-09-18 |
| Act Year | 2013 |
| Ministry | Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Enforcement Date | 06-12-2013 |
- PRELIMINARY
- IDENTIFICATION OF INSANITARY LATRINES
- PROHIBITION OF INSANITARY LATRINES AND EMPLOYMENT AND ENGAGEMENT AS MANUAL SCAVENGER
- 5 Prohibition of insanitary latrines and employment and engagement of manual scavenger
- 6 Contract, agreement, etc., to be void
- 7 Prohibition of persons from engagement or employment for hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks
- 8 Penalty for contravention of section 5 or section 6
- 9 Penalty for contravention of section 7
- 10 Limitation of prosecution
- IDENTIFICATION OF MANUAL SCAVENGERS IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS AND THEIR REHABILITATION
- 11 Survey of manual scavengers in urban areas by Municipalities
- 12 Application by an urban manual scavenger for identification
- 13 Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Municipality
- 14 Survey of manual scavengers in rural areas by Panchayats
- 15 Application by a rural manual scavenger for identification
- 16 Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat
- IMPLEMENTING AUTHORITIES
- PROCEDURE FOR TRIAL
- VIGILANCE COMMITTEES
- 24 Vigilance Committees
- 25 Functions of Vigilance Committee
- 26 State Monitoring Committee
- 27 Functions of the State Monitoring Committee
- 28 Duty of States or Union territories to send periodic reports to the Central Government
- 29 Central Monitoring Committee
- 30 Functions of the Central Monitoring Committee
- 31 Functions of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis
- 32 Power of State Government to designate an appropriate authority to monitor the implementation of this Act
- MISCELLANEOUS
- 33 Duty of local authorities and other agencies to use modern technology for cleaning of sewers, etc
- 34 Protection of action taken in good faith
- 35 Jurisdiction of civil courts barred
- 36 Power of appropriate Government to make rules
- 37 Power of Central Government to make model rules
- 38 Power to remove difficulties
- 39 Power to exempt
