Bill to ban manual scavenging in Parl, govt tells SC

April 02, 2012 18:01

Nine years after a PIL said that over five lakh people were engaged in manual scavenging across the country, the government today told the Supreme Court that a bill aimed at banning such practice will be introduced in Parliament soon.

"I have received written instructions that a bill is being introduced in Parliament in monsoon session which will take care of the entire matter," Additional Solicitor General Haren Raval told a bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia. "We are committed to it (eliminating manual scavenging). Wait till monsoon session," he further said before the bench, also comprising justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar.

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