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The 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.
2013
List of Chapters & Sections

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title, extent and commencement
  3. 2
     Definitions
  4. 3
     Act to have overriding effect

  • IDENTIFICATION OF INSANITARY LATRINES

  • 4
     Local authorities to survey insanitary latrines and provide sanitary community 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

  • 17
     Responsibility of local authorities to ensure elimination of insanitary latrines
  • 18
     Authorities who may be specified for implementing provisions of this Act
  • 19
     Duty of District Magistrate and authorised officers
  • 20
     Appointment of inspectors and their powers

  • PROCEDURE FOR TRIAL

  • 21
     Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate
  • 22
     Offence to be cognizable and non-bailable
  • 23
     Offences by companies

  • 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