S.N.VARIAVA, H.K.SEMA
Safai Karamchari Andolan – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
ORDER :
S.N. Variava, J.
The Union of India and each State shall ask persons at the higher level in each of its Department and in its Corporation to personally check and then file affidavits in this Court as to whether or not, in their Department or Corporation any Manual Scavenging is still being resorted to. If Manual Scavenging is still being resorted to, then that Department or Corporation to indicate with details what Scheme it has for eliminating it and for rehabilitating the persons concerned and within what time frame. It is clarified that the person who files the affidavit must be a person who is responsible for taking a decision in the matter. The affidavit to be filed on personal information as we propose to hold the person responsible if it is found that the affidavit does not contain the truth.
2. The Union of India to also state what funds it has so far allocated and under which particular Schemes and what the utilisation of these funds has been, Union of India must state how many people have been rehabilitated each year since 1993.
3. Such affidavits to be filed within six months from today. We clarify that this does not mean that in the meantime the Union of India and t
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