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 32: Power of State Government to designate an appropriate authority to monitor the implementation of this Act.
    (1) The State Government may, by notification, designate a State Commission forSafai Karamcharis or a State Commission for the Scheduled Castes or such other statutory orother authority, as it deems fit, to perform, within the State, mutatis mutandis, the functionsspecified in sub-section (1) of section 31.
     (2) An authority designated under sub-section (1) shall, within the State, have,mutatis mutandis, the powers of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis as specifiedin sub-section (2) of section 31.
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