Four labourers were suffocated to death while one was critical on Sunday after inhaling toxic gas from a sewer in west Delhi’s Moti Nagar, police said. Around 3 p.m. the staff of Tower of Capital Green-DLF informed police that five labourers were trapped in a sewerage, Deputy Commissioner of Police Monika Bhardwaj said. The five were pulled out and taken[Read More…]
Tag: Sanitation
We will call your gods to clean the shit’: Powerful song on manual scavenging goes viral
There are over 12,700 manual scavengers in 13 states despite manual scavenging been banned four years ago. Manual scavenging was banned in 2013. Out of 12,737 manual scavengers, the maximum of 10,301 are in Uttar Pradesh, followed by 737 in Karnataka, 363 in Tamil Nadu, 322 in Rajasthan and 237 in[Read More…]