A Study on Right of Manual Scavengers with Special Reference to Chennai

Abstract

India possesses the second one maximum populace withinside the world. The United States of America is one of the quickest growing nations withinside the world, however the occasion of waste control procedures is not on top of things and still, there is the exercise of guide scavenging at exceptional components of the nation. This study offers guided scavenging. It tries to find out the underlying reasons and factors for the patience of this social evil, exceptionally dangerous lifestyle, and exceptionally unhygienic operating conditions. The guide scavenger’s career is dangerous, hazardous, unclean, degrading, and above all, even today, the very presence of guide cleansing of the sewage system, septic tanks, and manholes in our united states of america at the side of the startling mortality price amongst those workers, is thought to everyone. Manual scavenger refers to someone who manually cleans, carries, disposes, or handles human excreta from dry bathrooms and sewers. This task became legally banned with the aid of using the authorities some years ago.

The lifestyles of the guide scavenger is related to the caste system, in which the so-known as decreased castes have been obliged to perform the paintings. With the abolition of guide scavenging systems, it have become everyday cleansing paintings with much less dangerous jobs, and it safeguards the lives of people who are hired withinside the gift guide scavenging paintingsThe paper aims to analyze the human rights violations faced by manual scavengers in Chennai and the ineffectiveness of the legislation and the study also  focuses on the practical difficulties faced by the manual scavengers due to the ineffectiveness of constitutional guarantees to safeguard their rights.