Bare Act Search Results

Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, Preamble

Title: the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013

State: Central

Year: 2013

THE PROHIBITION OF EMPLOYMENT AS MANUAL SCAVENGERS AND THEIR REHABILITATION ACT, 2013 [Act No. 25 of 2013] [18th September, 2013] PREAMBLE (An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers, rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their families, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.) Whereas promoting among the citizens fraternity assuring the dignity of the individual is enshrined as one of the goals in the Preamble to the Constitution; And whereas the right to live with dignity is also implicit in the Fundamental Rights guaranteed in Part HI of the Constitution; And whereas article 46 of the Constitution, inter alia, provides that the State shall protect the weaker sections, and, particularly, the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes from social injustice and all forms of exploitation; And whereas the dehumanising practice of manual scavenging, arising from the continuing existence of insanitary latrines and a highly iniquitous caste system, still persists in various parts of the country, and the existing laws have not proved adequate in eliminating the twin evils of insanitary latrines and manual scavenging; .....

View Complete Act      List Judgments citing this section