Guidelines for Safety of Safai Karmacharis

Section 7 of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013. (MS Act, 2013) lays down that no person, local authority or any agency shall, form such date as the State Government may notify, which shall not be later than one year from the date of commencement of this Act, engage or employ, either directly or indirectly, any person for hazardous cleaning of a sewer or a septic tank.