Rajasthan govt to take steps for sanitation workers’ safety

JAIPUR: Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, said that the state government will provide adequate equipment and make proper arrangements so that no sanitation worker has to enter the manhole for cleaning sewers. Gehlot made the announcement while speaking at the Cleanliness Session at Birla Auditorium on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150^th birth anniversary.

A poster on ‘Say No to Polythene’ campaign and waste collection and a sanitation workers’ manual was also released on the occasion.

CM Gehlot promised that the government will provide proper equipment for sewer chamber cleaning to avoid any more deaths. There will be no constraint of money for this purpose. Gehlot also said that he had directed the officials to make a work plan and implement it within a year.

The CM further added while referring to Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of Swachh evam Nirmal Bharat (Clean and Pure India), “Gandhiji was against the practice of manual scavenging. This practice has been eradicated. I would request people to come forward and provide information to the concerned officers if they see anyone engaged in manual scavenging.”