Karnataka High Court urges State to frame policy to curb manual scavenging at sewage treatment plants

The Court was told that two people died recently while doing manual scavenging at a sewage treatment plant, and that there were no safety guidelines in place to check such activities.
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The Karnataka High Court on Thursday urged State authorities, including Bengaluru's municipal body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), to promptly come out with a comprehensive policy or guidelines to check on manual scavenging practices in Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) across Karnataka [The Registrar General, High Court (suo motu) v. Union of India and ors, and connected matters].

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