Tag: Manual Scavenging

  • Assam: Four die whereas cleansing tank in illicit liquor-making unit 

    By PTI

    TINSUKIA: Four individuals died allegedly resulting from asphyxiation whereas cleansing a tank used for illicit liquor manufacturing in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Thursday, police mentioned.

    According to the police, the deceased included the 70-year-old proprietor of the liquor-making unit and his son.

    The incident came about at Tipuk below Talap police station when the 4 entered the tank for periodic cleansing.

    “The large tank was utilized for melting treated jaggery, a key step in the production of country liquor,” an official mentioned.

    He mentioned it’s suspected that some noxious gasoline contained in the tank led to their suffocation and subsequent demise, however the precise motive can be recognized after the autopsy examination report is out there.

    The deceased have been recognized as unit proprietor Ramprasad Rai, his 40-year-old son Patgiri and two laborers – Jagdish Gwala (40) and Pukla Kisan (38).

    “Ramprasad Rai has long been involved in the production of illicit alcohol and used to operate secretly in the region. Despite repeated dismantling of his illegal distillery by the police and excise department, he managed to resurface every time,” the official mentioned.

    An in depth and thorough police investigation is on to determine the sequence of occasions resulting in the demise of the 4 individuals, he added.

    READ MORE: Manual scavenging: Govts instructed to unfold consciousness

    TINSUKIA: Four individuals died allegedly resulting from asphyxiation whereas cleansing a tank used for illicit liquor manufacturing in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Thursday, police mentioned.

    According to the police, the deceased included the 70-year-old proprietor of the liquor-making unit and his son.

    The incident came about at Tipuk below Talap police station when the 4 entered the tank for periodic cleansing.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “The large tank was utilized for melting treated jaggery, a key step in the production of country liquor,” an official mentioned.

    He mentioned it’s suspected that some noxious gasoline contained in the tank led to their suffocation and subsequent demise, however the precise motive can be recognized after the autopsy examination report is out there.

    The deceased have been recognized as unit proprietor Ramprasad Rai, his 40-year-old son Patgiri and two laborers – Jagdish Gwala (40) and Pukla Kisan (38).

    “Ramprasad Rai has long been involved in the production of illicit alcohol and used to operate secretly in the region. Despite repeated dismantling of his illegal distillery by the police and excise department, he managed to resurface every time,” the official mentioned.

    An in depth and thorough police investigation is on to determine the sequence of occasions resulting in the demise of the 4 individuals, he added.

    READ MORE: Manual scavenging: Govts instructed to unfold consciousness

  • 339 folks died whereas cleansing sewers, septic tanks in final 5 years: Centre

    Manual scavenging is a banned observe below the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (PEMSR) Act, 2013.

    NEW DELHI:  As many as 339 folks have died whereas cleansing sewers and septic tanks in India within the final 5 years, in keeping with authorities knowledge.

    Responding to a query in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale mentioned 9 such deaths had been recorded in 2023, 66 in 2022, 58 in 2021, 22 in 2020, 117 in 2019 and 67 deaths in 2018.

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    Manual scavenging is a banned observe below the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (PEMSR) Act, 2013.

    The Act bans using any particular person for manually cleansing, carrying, disposing of or in any other case dealing with, in any method, human excreta until its disposal.

    READ MORE | “225 manual scavenging deaths in Tamil Nadu from ’93-2023”

  • Pune septic tank horror: Body of lacking sanitation employee fished out; two others useless

    By ANI

    PUNE: The physique of the sanitation employee who went lacking this morning whereas cleansing a septic chamber in Pune was discovered by the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) officers in the present day.

    The incident pertains to the deaths of sanitation employees that have been reported in a housing society in Pune. The employees died whereas cleansing the septic chamber.

    The officers confirmed that three sanitation employees died within the mishap.

    “The dead body of the missing person has been found. A total of three persons died while they cleaned a septic chamber at a private society. Police are investigating the case,” PMRDA officers mentioned.

    The police had already recovered the our bodies of the opposite two individuals because the accident occurred whereas the trio was cleansing the septic chamber manually, earlier within the day.

    Further investigations are underway.

    PUNE: The physique of the sanitation employee who went lacking this morning whereas cleansing a septic chamber in Pune was discovered by the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) officers in the present day.

    The incident pertains to the deaths of sanitation employees that have been reported in a housing society in Pune. The employees died whereas cleansing the septic chamber.

    The officers confirmed that three sanitation employees died within the mishap.

    “The dead body of the missing person has been found. A total of three persons died while they cleaned a septic chamber at a private society. Police are investigating the case,” PMRDA officers mentioned.

    The police had already recovered the our bodies of the opposite two individuals because the accident occurred whereas the trio was cleansing the septic chamber manually, earlier within the day.

    Further investigations are underway.

  • Sewer and septic tank cleansing claimed 347 lives since 2017: Centre

    The Safai Karamchari Andolan has launched a marketing campaign in opposition to sewer and septic tank deaths.