Implementation of Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 in India- A Comparative Literature Review

The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 was apparently upgraded to include all whoever worked without proper physical safety protection and direct human contact to manually clean human faecal waste to Prohibition of Manual scavenging practices. Manual scavenging is the removal of excreta (Night Soil) manually from “Dry Toilets” the toilets without modern flush system. Manual Scavenging is a cast based and hereditary occupation for Dalits, manual scavenging in India is mostly done by the people considered as lower castes or untouchables. . This Paper specifically deals with various available literature and aims. This paper specifically deals with the Implementation of Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 that addresses the problems of manual scavengers in India as a mean of occupation and to explore the causes and reasons for the continuance of such practices in India