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To the Indian State:
1-Demolish all
dry latrines and rehabilitate all persons engaged in manual
scavenging into alternative, dignified occupations
2-Strictly enforce the Employment of Manual Scavengers and
Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act 1993 to punish all
those building or maintaining dry latrines and employing persons for
manual scavenging
3-Take stringent legal action against all persons practising
untouchability or caste-class-gender based discrimination against
safai karmacharis
4-Introduce education measures promoting caste and gender
equality and respect for human dignity, and campaigns against
untouchability and caste-class-gender discrimination particularly
focusing on the need to eradicate degrading occupations such as
manual scavenging.
5-Require that the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis
take on at least two representatives from the safai karmachari
community as full-time members.
To Indian Civil Society:
1-Spread awareness of this undignified occupation of manual
scavenging and begin to measure India’s progress in terms of the
progress made by marginalised communities such as the safai
karmacharis in terms of realisation of their fundamental rights.
2-Actively campaign for the eradication of all dry latrines
and their replacement with sanitary latrines, alongside the
liberation and rehabilitation of all persons engaged in manual
scavenging
3-Undertake independent education measures promoting caste
and gender equality and respect for human dignity, and public
campaigns against untouchability and caste-class-gender
discrimination particularly focusing on the need to eradicate
degrading occupations such as manual scavenging. |