GS4 · UPSC Mains

As a concerned citizen you have been engaged with the issue of persons employed in manual scavenging. You notice that despite laws and strictures from the highest court of the land the practice of employing human labour to clean sewers continues. While the administration has to ensure the cleanliness of the urban localities, those who are employed also have to earn to sustain themselves and their families. The death of few workers recently due to asphyxiation while cleaning a septic tank has caused much consternation in your locality. You would like to engage with the situation by writing to the administration, for which you need to find an answer to the following: (a) Identify the stakeholders involved and state their conflicting interests. (b) What challenges does the administration face in curbing this social evil? (c) Enumerate the steps to deal with the problem.

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GS4 · Case studies on the above issues

Topper	Rank	Source	Copy
Manisha Awhale	—	VisionIAS	p.39
Akshat Jain	—	VisionIAS	p.39
Neha Bhosle	—	VisionIAS	p.39
Khushboo Lather	—	VisionIAS	p.39
Umesh Prasad Gupta	—	VisionIAS	p.39
Gaurav Kumar Tripathi	—	VisionIAS	p.36
Nikhil Agarwal	—	VisionIAS	p.39
Pratibha	—	Vision	p.39
Neha	—	Vision	p.39
Gunjan Dwivedi	—	Vision	p.37
Akshat Jain	—	Vision	p.39