Amid heavy rains, Joy disappeared on July 13 Saturday while cleaning the drainage canal at Amayazhinchan Thodu in Thampanoor Central Railway Station premises and got swept into the canal that ran below the tracks of the platform at the station.
After a sanitation worker slipped into a drainage canal at Amayazhinchan Thodu in Thampanoor Central Railway Station in Thiruvananthapuram, the High Court has said that amicus curiae should visit Amaiyhanchan Thot and asked Railways, Thiruvananthapuram Corporation and the District Collector
Speaking to ANI, Thoothukudi Corporation Mayor NP Jegan Periyasamy said, "5 demands of the protesters will be implemented immediately after meeting with the union representative of sanitation workers. They have 19 demands including wage hike."
A 35-year-old Christian sanitation worker, Yasir Masih, was beaten and left chained in the blistering heat for hours by a Muslim family upset over a delayed garbage collection in Lahore.
Speaking on Thursday, Ambassador Svane expressed his gratitude towards the NDMC and its dedicated personnel for their efforts in clearing up a location that was laden with trash just a day prior.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh lashed out at the centre and raised questions over the death of a sanitation worker due to a gas leak in Varanasi and promised to end manual scavenging.
The Delhi High Court has recently directed the Delhi Government to make efforts to pay an additional Rs. 20 Lakh compensation to the families of sanitation workers who died due to manual scavenging.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday that the government is working on a minimum wage guarantee for sanitation workers across Uttar Pradesh, adding that a committee has already been formed in this regard and concrete action will be taken soon, an official statement said.
According to an official press release, "The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has suspended 13 sanitation workers working in Narela zone and Sadar Paharganj zone for going to court more than once for the same pending arrears and getting the due amount."