{"id":8166,"date":"2019-07-17T15:49:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T10:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:49:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T10:19:43","slug":"sewer-deaths-centre-calls-for-quick-response-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sewer-deaths-centre-calls-for-quick-response-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewer deaths: Centre calls for quick response units"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has\nasked all States and Union Territories to set up emergency response sanitation\nunits (ERSU).<\/li><li>The ERSUs are to set up in capital cities of\neach State\/UT and in all major cities having a municipal corporation and\/or\nwater and sewerage board with population of more than one lakh.<\/li><li>The ERSUs would include trained cleaners wearing\nprotective gear. The district Magistrate or municipal commissioner would be\ndesignated as the Responsible Sanitation Authority, which would organise the\nstaff for the ERSU.<\/li><li>Those trained, equipped and certified as sewer\nentry professionals would be the only ones allowed to enter sewers and septic\ntanks.<\/li><li>The decision to set up ERSUs comes in the\nbackdrop of recent incidents of workers dying while cleaning sewers and septic\ntanks as private individuals, local bodies and contractors force people to\nenter sewers and tanks.<\/li><li>Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers\nand their Rehabilitation Act 2013 prohibit employment as manual scavengers. It\nalso prohibits hazardous manual cleaning of sewer and septic tanks.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has asked all States and Union Territories to set up emergency response sanitation units (ERSU). The ERSUs are to set up in capital cities of each State\/UT and in all major cities having a municipal corporation and\/or water and sewerage board with population of more than one lakh.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sewer-deaths-centre-calls-for-quick-response-units\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sewer deaths: Centre calls for quick response units<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6571,1772],"class_list":["post-8166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-ersu","tag-manual-scavenging","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704743941},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}