The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
Central · 2013
- S. 1Short title, extent and commencement.
- S. 2Definitions.
- S. 3Act to have overriding effect.
- S. 4Local authorities to survey insanitary latrines and provide sanitary community latrines.
- S. 5Prohibition of insanitary latrines and employment and engagement of manual scavenger.
- S. 6Contract, agreement, etc., to be void.
- S. 7Prohibition of persons from engagement or employment for hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks.
- S. 8Penalty for contravention of section 5 or section 6.
- S. 9Penalty for contravention of section 7.
- S. 10Limitation of prosecution.
- S. 11Survey of manual scavengers in urban areas by Municipalities.
- S. 12Application by an urban manual scavenger for identification.
- S. 13Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Municipality.
- S. 14Survey of manual scavengers in rural areas by Panchayats.
- S. 15Application by a rural manual scavenger for identification.
- S. 16Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat.
- S. 17Responsibility of local authorities to ensure elimination of insanitary latrines.
- S. 18Authorities who may be specified for implementing provisions of this Act.
- S. 19Duty of District Magistrate and authorised officers.
- S. 20Appointment of inspectors and their powers.
- S. 21Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate.
- S. 22Offence to be cognizable and non-bailable.
- S. 23Offences by companies.
- S. 24Vigilance Committees.
- S. 25Functions of Vigilance Committee.
- S. 26State Monitoring Committee.
- S. 27Functions of the State Monitoring Committee.
- S. 28Duty of States or Union territories to send periodic reports to the Central Government.
- S. 29Central Monitoring Committee.
- S. 30Functions of the Central Monitoring Committee.
- S. 31Functions of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis.
- S. 32Power of State Government to designate an appropriate authority to monitor the implementation of this Act.
- S. 33Duty of local authorities and other agencies to use modern technology for cleaning of sewers, etc.
- S. 34Protection of action taken in good faith.
- S. 35Jurisdiction of civil courts barred.
- S. 36Power of appropriate Government to make rules.
- S. 37Power of Central Government to make model rules.
- S. 38Power to remove difficulties.
- S. 39Power to exempt.