आंध्रप्रदेश: 8 सफाई कर्मचारियों की मौत का जिम्मेदार कौन, क्यों मानव आयोग खामोश?

By: Sushil Kumar

in Chittoor district of Arunachal Pradesh 8 Sanitation workers died while cleaning sewer. 8 Sanitation workers die but in our country it is not considered a serious issue. There is a long list of deaths of sanitation workers in sewers. but there are many questions. After all, why in this era of modernity is it filled with filth? 15 Fit is forced to go into deep pit and clean up? Why is the system not improved even after the death of many people?. After being put in the hands of contractors, these workers are exploited a lot.. Due to poverty, these people risk their lives to get into the sewer for less money.. methane in sewer, carbon dioxide, Hydrogen sulphide is a suffocating gas and workers can die untimely due to exposure to these gases. Cheek Get absorbed in.

These workers suffer from skin diseases due to working in dirt, There are many types of diseases including respiratory and eye diseases. Due to working in unhygienic conditions, they get addicted to alcohol and other drugs. There is discrimination in giving government houses allotted to sewer cleaning workers in Jal Board. they don't get a flat। According to a study, every month 200 Scavengers die. According to the sanitation workers movement 1993 from till now they have such 1370 sewer laborers Names of those who died under hazardous working conditions. among these 480 They have complete records of the workers.

But why is the government silent on these deaths when 1996 In Mumbai Court and 2000 The National Human Rights Commission said that along with training, complete safety equipment should be provided to those working in sewers. The Supreme Court of the country has said that machines should be used for cleaning sewers.

let me tell you 1993 Employment of Safai Karmacharis and Prohibition of Construction of Dry Latrines Act in India 1993 A law was made under the name carrying sewage, There was a provision for punishment for cleaning toilets. after that september 2013 Another law related to this was made in 2007, under which the work of laborers entering sewers to clean them was kept in the category of crime. According to the law, unsanitary practices or cleaning human excreta is a punishable offence. The maximum punishment for anyone who compels anyone to do this is five years' imprisonment or a fine of Rs 5 lakh or both.

So why is the Supreme Court like this?, National Human Rights Commission should not take cognizance of the matter? Does Swachh Bharat have to be achieved only through the sacrifices of marginalized people and communities?? The dark drain has further plunged the marginalized community into darkness. Who should be held responsible for the death of sewerage?? Those who sacrifice their lives to keep us clean are called untouchables in the society. We should not let them inside our homes or share our utensils with them. Is this a civilized society which cleans up the filth of others and remains in the filth?, We continue to consider him untouchable? How long will this keep happening??