GS4 · UPSC Mains
You have recently been posted as the District Magistrate of a poor district in India where there is a high prevalence of manual scavenging. It has been brought to your notice that manual scavenging has claimed many lives in your district. Upon further enquiry, you found that most of the manual scavengers belong to a particular caste, and majority of them can find employment only by way of scavenging. Even some government departments in your district are employing these people for physical cleaning of sewers/septic tanks without basic safety gear and measures. Despite the rehabilitation programmes for manual scavengers, the administration has been found inefficient in identifying such people in the first place and the efforts to reskill them for employment elsewhere have not yielded desired results. Based on the given information, answer the following: (a) Identify the issues associated with manual scavenging. (b) List the options available to you in the given case. Evaluate the merits and demerits of each. (c) Discuss some feasible steps that you can take to address this serious problem.
GS4 · Case studies on the above issues
| Topper | Rank | Source | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surbhi Pathak | — | VisionIAS | p.54 |
| Tharun Patnaik | — | VisionIAS | p.54 |
| Neepa Manocha | — | VisionIAS | p.54 |
| Rakesh Kumar Meena | — | VisionIAS | p.54 |
| Vibhor Bhardwaj | — | VisionIAS | p.53 |
| Bajrang Prasad | — | VisionIAS | p.54 |
| Neepa Manocha | — | VisionIAS | p.54 |
| Vibhore Mendiratta | — | VisionIAS | p.52 |
| SHOHAM TEBRIWAL | — | VisionIAS | p.54 |