The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice on a public interest litigation challenging the exclusion of sewer and septic tank cleaners doing hazardous cleaning from the purview of Prohibition of.
Individuals as well as companies continue to illegally employ workers to clean sewers and septic tanks, with many dying due to asphyxiation. A lack of reliable data, riddled with inconsistencies in the government’s own numbers, makes the problem harder to solve
UP: 3 labourers die after falling in sewer in Noida
UP: 3 labourers die after falling in sewer in Noida
Three Labourers Died On Thursday While Cleaning A Sewer Near BDS Market In Noida Sector 110, Uttar Pradesh.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Vivek Arya | Updated on: 21 Sep 2017, 07:52:39 PM
New Delhi:
In a tragic incident, three labourers died on Thursday while cleaning a sewer near BDS market in Noida Sector 110, Uttar Pradesh.
The labourers fell in the sewer and got stuck. The police rushed to the spot soon after the incident.
Meanwhile, with the recent deaths of sanitation labourers while cleaning sewers had forced the Delhi government to adopt fully mechanised cleaning of sewers and penalise agencies continuing manual cleaning.