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Short title, extent and commencement. | Read |
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Definitions. | Read |
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Act to have overriding effect. | Read |
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Local authorities to survey insanitary latrines and provide sanitary community latrines. | Read |
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Prohibition of insanitary latrines and employment and engagement of manual scavenger. | Read |
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Contract, agreement, etc., to be void. | Read |
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Prohibition of persons from engagement or employment for hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks. | Read |
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Penalty for contravention of section 5 or section 6. | Read |
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Penalty for contravention of section 7. | Read |
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Limitation of prosecution. | Read |
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Survey of manual scavengers in urban areas by Municipalities. | Read |
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Application by an urban manual scavenger for identification. | Read |
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Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Municipality. | Read |
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Survey of manual scavengers in rural areas by Panchayats. | Read |
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Application by a rural manual scavenger for identification. | Read |
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Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat. | Read |
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Responsibility of local authorities to ensure elimination of insanitary latrines. | Read |
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Authorities who may be specified for implementing provisions of this Act. | Read |
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Duty of District Magistrate and authorised officers. | Read |
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Appointment of inspectors and their powers. | Read |
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Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate. | Read |
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Offence to be cognizable and non-bailable. | Read |
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Offences by companies. | Read |
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Vigilance Committees. | Read |
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Functions of Vigilance Committee. | Read |
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State Monitoring Committee. | Read |
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Functions of the State Monitoring Committee. | Read |
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Duty of States or Union territories to send periodic reports to the Central Government. | Read |
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Central Monitoring Committee. | Read |
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Functions of the Central Monitoring Committee. | Read |
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Functions of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis. | Read |
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Power of State Government to designate an appropriate authority to monitor the implementation of this Act. | Read |
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Duty of local authorities and other agencies to use modern technology for cleaning of sewers, etc. | Read |
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Protection of action taken in good faith. | Read |
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Jurisdiction of civil courts barred. | Read |
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Power of appropriate Government to make rules. | Read |
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Power of Central Government to make model rules. | Read |
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Power to remove difficulties. | Read |
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Power to exempt. | Read |
