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To
the Indian State:
- Demolish all dry latrines and rehabilitate all persons engaged
in manual scavenging into alternative, dignified occupations
- 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
- Take stringent legal action against all persons practising untouchability
or caste-class-gender based discrimination against safai karmacharis
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
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