Thiruvathipuram Municipality to undertake census on manual scavengers

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The Hindu       25.07.2014  

Thiruvathipuram Municipality to undertake census on manual scavengers

 The Thiruvathipuram Municipality will be undertaking on behalf of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, a census of scavengers and their dependents in the Thiruvathipuram (Cheyyar) municipal limits from July 28 to August 3.

According to a release from the Municipal Commissioner, Thiruvathipuram, the census is to be undertaken to identify those engaged in the manual cleaning of open sewage channels, septic tanks and the manual removal of human stool from those places as well as from railway tracks in unhygienic conditions.

The scavengers have been requested to participate furnish necessary information, in the prescribed self-declaration form.

Members of the public and voluntary organizations have been requested to publicise the census among the manual scavengers.

For further details, one can contact S. Balasubramanian, Thiruvathipuram Municipality (cell: 80569 54469,

email: commr.thiruvathipuram@

tn.gov.in.