The Supreme Court of India said on Friday that a compensation of Rs. 30 lakh will be paid to the kin of manual scavengers if they die during the cleaning process. It also announced a comp… Read More

The Supreme court of India on Friday said the government will have to pay Rs 30 lakh as compensation to those who die cleaning sewers. A bench of justices Aravind Kumar and S Ravindra Bhat s… Read More

Context: According to surveys done in 2022, more than 80 per cent of Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin beneficiaries spent over Rs 1.50 lakh to construct houses under the scheme, higher tha… Read More

Tuesday, 10 OCTOBER 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN The vice chairman of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) Anjana Panwar directed the officials to make a work plan to provid… Read More

About PMS-SC Scheme: The Post Matric Scholarship Scheme for SC Students (PMS-SC) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for the SC students for studies in India only whose Parent/Guardian&rsqu… Read More

Source: The post is based on the article “Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers”  published in PIB on 25th July 2023 What is the News? The Ministry of Social Justice and Empow… Read More

Daily Current Affairs 1st September 2023 National News The Global India AI 2023 Conference is scheduled to be held in October. India is scheduled to host the first phase or edition of the &l… Read More

By India Legal Bureau On India’s 77th Independence Day, the country lost a very special social activist who fought for the rights of people at the very bottom of the social pyramid… Read More

In the heart of India’s social landscape stands a figure whose tireless efforts have transformed the lives of millions, transcending the barriers of caste, class, and tradition. Bindes… Read More

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Manual Scavenging According to the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE), only 66% of the districts in the country are free from “manual scavenging”. According… Read More

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Waist-deep in sewage, wearing no safety gear, heavily intoxicated to withstand the stench: these are India’s so-called “manual scavengers”, paid scant wages to carry out a… Read More

UPSC MAINS SOCIOLOGY SYLLABUSPaper 2 – Section C – Visions of Social Ch… Read More

Chennai, May 17 (IANS) Even as the state and Central governments have been taking measures to prevent manual scavenging and promoting robots for doing the same, a 40-year-old man died of asp… Read More

Ahmedabad, April 23 (IANS) Two sanitation workers died due to suffocation while cleaning a sewage line in Dholka town in Ahmedabad, police said on Sunday.The incident occurred on Saturday at… Read More

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The Gauhati High Court disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) pending since 2020 assailing the notification dated 18.08.2018 of the Department of Welfare of Plain Tribes and Backwar… Read More

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Context All cleaning jobs are regarded as demeaning and are assigned to people at the bottom of the social hierarchy. The majority of Dalits work in sanitation as manual scavengers, drain cl… Read More

Dewas (Madhya Pradesh): Municipal Corporation, Dewas, has been paying special attention to provide regular health check-up camps for manual scavengers and sanitation workers. Under Swachh Su… Read More

The e Shram portal was launched by the government of India on 26 August 2021. The Ministry of Labour and Employment is the authority that regulates… Read More

ultimate week, the international monetary Fund (IMF) lauded India's Direct improvement transfer (DBT) Scheme as a "logistical surprise" that has reached lots of of hundreds of thousands of i… Read More

The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity is on September 25, 2022. Readings for Year C can be found here. The Gospel is as follows (emphases mine): Luke 16:19-31 16:19 “There was a rich man… Read More

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The employment ministry of the Indian government introduced the e-shram portal and the e-shramcard in August 2021 to centrally create a database of different unorganised sectors of workers a… Read More

Chandigarh : National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC) has organised a loan mela and awareness camp at Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration… Read More

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday sought a reply from the Uttar Pradesh Government and the Municipal Corporation of Prayagraj on a PIL filed for the safety and rehabilitation of sanitary… Read More

The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis, which falls under the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment, has taken suo motu cognizance of a TOI report about workers involved in… Read More