A worker of cleaning the diarrhea in Vijayawada. File | Photo Credit: Gn Rao
The Andhra Pradesh High Court ordered the Commissioners of the Municipal Administration to collect data on the death of workers during the cleaning of sewerage systems from all municipal corporations, municipalities and other local authorities since 1993 to pay compensation and rehabilitate their families according to the norm.
The bench headed by the chief judge Dhiraj Singh Thakur and the judiciary Ravi Cheemalapati stated that the data should reflect the exact number of “sewerage death” because the issue of compensation could not be limited to the case of Meda Manicaal Rao, a contractual worker who died to inhalation of toxic valves). cleaning.
The purpose of collecting data was to compensate for the families of all those who died in such situations.
Hearing Pil by lawyer P. Raveja named T. Daalaiah, retirement employees to make justice manual gadgets, would be a prohibition of employment to deal with manual officials and rehabilitation laws should be judges who would be dealing with the law. They dealt with the fact that they would deal with the law that they would deal with participation and the Act that they would deal with the Act that they would deal with the Act on Participation and dealing with the Act that they would deal with the Participation Act and the Act of dealing with the Act on Participation.
The matter was published for further hearing until 16 July 2025.
As for the death of Manicaal Rao, the court ordered Vijayawada Municipal Corporation to pay its family 20 lakh, except 10 lakh, which has already been given by the Supreme Court courts in Balram Singh vs. Union of India and others, and Safai Karamchari vs. India.
The court also ordered the state to provide employment to the wife of manicaela Rao to ensure full rehabilitation of other relatives, including education in departments and appropriate training skills ordered by the Supreme Court within two months of the above date.
The responsibility in the form of cash liability had to be attached to the agencies for which the staff had made manual efforts.
If sewerage workers who have lost their lives directly worked and supervised by regular employees of corporations, municipalities and other local authorities, these officers should also be responsible for preventing the service records from being promoted.
The “Hindi” Report
Among other things, the petitioner referred to a report published in Hindu, recently with the headline “The Manhole Wasie: A Cryt For a Acrup”, which revealed that there were almost 250 workers in Vijayawada.
Published – 27 April 2025 17:29
