339 Lives Lost to Manual Scavenging in the Last Five Years, Govt Data Reveals

Although manual scavenging is an outlawed practice under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (PEMSR) Act, 2013, several die every year cleaning sewers and septic tanks.

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