Section 16

Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat.

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

  • Act 25 of 2013
  • Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
  • Department of Social Justice and Empowerment
About this Act

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.

All sections
    Any person included in the final list of manual scavengers, published in pursuanceof section 14 or added thereto in pursuance of sub-section (2) of section 15 shall berehabilitated, mutatis mutandis, in the manner laid down for urban manual scavengers insection 13.

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