In October, the Supreme Court, recognizing the prolonged bondage and inhumane conditions endured by manual scavengers, called for the complete eradication of manual scavenging nationwide

The protest by sanitation workers of Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital has completed one year but there still has been no response from the authorities

The deaths of sanitation workers due to inhalation of toxic fumes in manholes can be prevented by the deployment of HomoSEPs — robots that homogenise the sludge in septic tanks, eliminating the need to manually open blockages