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 17: Responsibility of local authorities to ensure elimination of insanitary latrines.
    Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, itshall be the responsibility of every local authority to ensure, through awareness campaignor in such other manner that after the expiry of a period of nine months, from the date ofcommencement of this Act,—
         (i) no insanitary latrine is constructed, maintained or used within its jurisdiction; and
         (ii) in case of contravention of clause (i), action is taken against the occupierunder sub-section (3) of section 5.
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