Act Number: 25

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

Year: 2013

Enactment Date: 2013-09-18

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.

Ministry: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Department: Department of Social Justice and Empowerment

Section 16: Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat.
    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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