The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
Central Act · Act 25 of 201339 provisions
The enactment
| Long title | 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. |
|---|---|
| Type | Act |
| Citation | Act 25 of 2013 |
| Year | 2013 |
| Jurisdiction | Central |
| Ministry | Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Status | In force as published by the source |
| Provisions published | 39 |
| Subjects | environment |
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- Section 1 Short title, extent and commencement.
- Section 2 Definitions.
- Section 3 Act to have overriding effect.
- Section 4 Local authorities to survey insanitary latrines and provide sanitary community latrines.
- Section 5 Prohibition of insanitary latrines and employment and engagement of manual scavenger.
- Section 6 Contract, agreement, etc., to be void.
- Section 7 Prohibition of persons from engagement or employment for hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks.
- Section 8 Penalty for contravention of section 5 or section 6.
- Section 9 Penalty for contravention of section 7.
- Section 10 Limitation of prosecution.
- Section 11 Survey of manual scavengers in urban areas by Municipalities.
- Section 12 Application by an urban manual scavenger for identification.
- Section 13 Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Municipality.
- Section 14 Survey of manual scavengers in rural areas by Panchayats.
- Section 15 Application by a rural manual scavenger for identification.
- Section 16 Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat.
- Section 17 Responsibility of local authorities to ensure elimination of insanitary latrines.
- Section 18 Authorities who may be specified for implementing provisions of this Act.
- Section 19 Duty of District Magistrate and authorised officers.
- Section 20 Appointment of inspectors and their powers.
- Section 21 Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate.
- Section 22 Offence to be cognizable and non-bailable.
- Section 23 Offences by companies.
- Section 24 Vigilance Committees.
- Section 25 Functions of Vigilance Committee.
- Section 26 State Monitoring Committee.
- Section 27 Functions of the State Monitoring Committee.
- Section 28 Duty of States or Union territories to send periodic reports to the Central Government.
- Section 29 Central Monitoring Committee.
- Section 30 Functions of the Central Monitoring Committee.
- Section 31 Functions of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis.
- Section 32 Power of State Government to designate an appropriate authority to monitor the implementation of this Act.
- Section 33 Duty of local authorities and other agencies to use modern technology for cleaning of sewers, etc.
- Section 34 Protection of action taken in good faith.
- Section 35 Jurisdiction of civil courts barred.
- Section 36 Power of appropriate Government to make rules.
- Section 37 Power of Central Government to make model rules.
- Section 38 Power to remove difficulties.
- Section 39 Power to exempt.
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