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The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013

Central

An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers, rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their families, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Act number
25 of 2013
Ministry
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Department
Department of Social Justice and Empowerment
Enacted
18 Sep 2013

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39 sections

  1. Section 1Short title, extent and commencement.
  2. Section 2Definitions.
  3. Section 3Act to have overriding effect.
  4. Section 4Local authorities to survey insanitary latrines and provide sanitary community latrines.
  5. Section 5Prohibition of insanitary latrines and employment and engagement of manual scavenger.
  6. Section 6Contract, agreement, etc., to be void.
  7. Section 7Prohibition of persons from engagement or employment for hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks.
  8. Section 8Penalty for contravention of section 5 or section 6.
  9. Section 9Penalty for contravention of section 7.
  10. Section 10Limitation of prosecution.
  11. Section 11Survey of manual scavengers in urban areas by Municipalities.
  12. Section 12Application by an urban manual scavenger for identification.
  13. Section 13Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Municipality.
  14. Section 14Survey of manual scavengers in rural areas by Panchayats.
  15. Section 15Application by a rural manual scavenger for identification.
  16. Section 16Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat.
  17. Section 17Responsibility of local authorities to ensure elimination of insanitary latrines.
  18. Section 18Authorities who may be specified for implementing provisions of this Act.
  19. Section 19Duty of District Magistrate and authorised officers.
  20. Section 20Appointment of inspectors and their powers.
  21. Section 21Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate.
  22. Section 22Offence to be cognizable and non-bailable.
  23. Section 23Offences by companies.
  24. Section 24Vigilance Committees.
  25. Section 25Functions of Vigilance Committee.
  26. Section 26State Monitoring Committee.
  27. Section 27Functions of the State Monitoring Committee.
  28. Section 28Duty of States or Union territories to send periodic reports to the Central Government.
  29. Section 29Central Monitoring Committee.
  30. Section 30Functions of the Central Monitoring Committee.
  31. Section 31Functions of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis.
  32. Section 32Power of State Government to designate an appropriate authority to monitor the implementation of this Act.
  33. Section 33Duty of local authorities and other agencies to use modern technology for cleaning of sewers, etc.
  34. Section 34Protection of action taken in good faith.
  35. Section 35Jurisdiction of civil courts barred.
  36. Section 36Power of appropriate Government to make rules.
  37. Section 37Power of Central Government to make model rules.
  38. Section 38Power to remove difficulties.
  39. Section 39Power to exempt.